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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Number and Distribution of the Agricultural Experiment Stations 

 of the World, Complete to January , 1893.* 



COUNTllY. 



Germany, 



United States of America, 



France, 



Austrian Empire, 



Sweden, . 



Italy, 



Russia, . 



Belgium, . 



Switzerland, . 



Denmark, 



Great Britain, 



Norway, 



Holland, 



Java (belonging to 



Portugal, 



Roumania, 



Spain, 



Brazil, 



Japan, 



Holland) , 



Number 

 of Stations. 



67 



55 



53 



35 



24 



17 



14 



9 



9 



8 



8 



4 



4 



3 



3 



2 



1 



1 



1 



It might not be out of place at this point to give a few 

 statistics reUitive to tlie American stations. f In the United 

 States, agricultural experiment stations are now in operation 

 in all the States and Territories of the Union, according to 

 act of Congress passed in March, 1887. The United States 

 errant is divided in some States, so that several of the States 

 contain two stations. In the States of Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, a separate station 

 is maintained entirely or in })art l)y State funds, while in 

 Louisiana a station for experimentmg in sugar-cane culture 

 is sustained entirely from the contributions of the sugar 

 plantei's. We have certainly fifty-five agricultural experi- 

 ment stations, receiving from the national and State govern- 

 ments and Ironi })rivate individuals, and for fees from 

 analytical Mork, in round numl)ers, nine hundred and fifty 



* Taken from die Landwirthschaftlichen Versuclis-Stationen, Heft III., 1892, 

 compiled by F. Ncjlilie. 



t See Experiment Station Record, February, 1892. Some slight changes have been 

 since made, but not sufficiently important to seriously affect the accuracy of the 

 above information. 



