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infest farm crops and fruits, if no remedies were found for the 

 troubles that afflict the dairyman, if science had lent no aid in prevent- 

 ing frauds that directly affect the farmer's pocketbook, and if we 

 were still in the days of tradition and superstition concerning 

 Nature's ways. If specific instances of station work need to be cited 

 to make its value clear, mention may be made of the spraying of 

 potatoes with a possible saving of millions of dollars yearly, of the 

 study and control of the San Jose scale that threatened our fruit 

 interests with their annual income of not less than $15,000,000, of 

 the saving of the pickle industry on Long Island against the ravages 

 of a fungus pest, of the means provided for controlling troubles 

 affecting value of cheese and of information gathered by Station 

 activity showing that this State is adapted to the production of sugar 

 beets of the highest grade. 



the financial support and needs of the station. 



Past expenditures. — It should be freely acknowledged that the 

 State has been reasonably generous towards its experiment station. 

 The annual income for the maintenance of all its work was at first 

 $20,000 and Oct. ist, 1904, it had become $69,500 in accordance with 

 the following items: 



For maintenance fund $50, 000 



For outside horticultural investigations 8>ooo 



For enforcing provisions of the fertilizer law 10,000 



From United States Government 1.500 



Total $69, 500 



This continued to be the annual maintenance income of the Station 

 until the fiscal year 1899- 1900. 



The legislature of 1899 amended the fertilizer law so as to require 

 the payment annually of a license fee on the various brands of ferti- 

 lizers, the same to be used in administering the law, and also passed 



