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General Government I15 000 to each State and Territory- that shall accept 

 the terms of the grant and establish and maintain an Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. There is also established in Washington a central office, 

 called the Office of Experiment Stations, in which the results of the station 

 work in the various States are digested and tabulated, and which also has 

 a consulting and advisory interest in the progress and execution of the 

 work. 



Under the act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, known popularly 

 as the Hatch bill, agricultural experiment stations are now in operation in 

 all the States and Territories with the exception of Alaska, Montana and 

 Idaho. In a few of the States more than one station has been established, 

 so that in all 49 are now in operation. In Alabama, Connecticut, Massa- 

 chusetts, New Jersey and New York, separate stations are maintained 

 wholly or in part by State funds. The total grant of money made last 

 year by Congress for the experimental work amounted to $728,000 for the 

 Hatch bill stations and the office of experiment stations, and $50,000 for 

 the sugar experiments. The amount expended in experimental work by 

 the grass stations and entomological division is not accurately known, but 

 reaches probably not less than $20,000, making the total expenditure by 

 the Department of Agriculture for experimental work in round numbers 

 $800,000. In regard to the particular amounts expended by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in direct co-operation with the experimental work in 

 the several States, the following list will be found reliable: For entomo- 

 logical work— Nebraska, $600; Iowa, $600; Ohio, $1500; Michigan, $roco. 

 For botanical work — Texas, $700; Arizona, $700; Colorado, $1000; Utah, 

 $500; South Dakota, $500; Wyoming, $500; North Dakota, $500; New 

 Mexico, $500; Louisiana, $750; Florida, $250; Georgia, $500; North Caro- 

 lina, $500; Mississippi, $1600. In addition to this the State and private 

 contributions to this work amount to fully $200,000, making in all the sum 

 of $r, 000, 000 devoted annually to the cause of the experimental promotion 

 of Agriculture. Five hundred persons are employed actively in this work. 

 Among these are 71 directors, 120 chemists, 47 agriculturists, 50 horticul- 

 turists, 30 botanists, 36 entomologists, 22 veterinarians, 14 meteorologists 

 (excluding all employed by the Weather Bureau), 4 biologists, etc. During 

 the year 1891, excluding publications coming directly from the Depart- 

 ment, the stations published 49 annual reports and 255 bulletins. The 

 mailing list of the stations (exclusive of the Department lists) now con- 

 tains 350,000 names. About 40.000,000 pages devoted to information on 

 agricultural subjects were printed and distributed during the year, not 

 counting the Department publications. This does not include the hun- 

 dreds of newspapers which publish accounts of the work. It is safe to 

 say that at least 10,000,000 of our reading people read more or less of this 

 work every year. In addition to this add the number reached directly by 

 the Department, and the vastness of the interests of this work, measured 

 by the number of people directly benefitted, is at once apparent. 



