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SCIENCE. 



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value of additions to the equipment of the 

 stations in 1901 is estimated as follows: 

 Building, $133,420.77; libraries, $26,153.- 

 49; apparatus, $15,009.48; farm imple- 

 ments, $13,050.45; live stock, $17,120.29; 

 miscellaneous, $25,025.10; total, $229,779.- 

 58. 



The stations employ 719 persons in the 

 work of administration and inquiry. The 

 number of officers engaged in the different 

 lines of work is as follows : Directors, 53 ; 

 assistant and vice directors, 15 ; chemists, 

 146; agriculturists, 62; animal husband- 

 men, 14; horticulturists, 78; farm fore- 

 men, 21 ; dairymen, 31 ; botanists, 49 ; en- 

 tomologists, 48 ; zoologists, 6 ; veterinari- 

 ans, 29 ; meteorologists, 14 ; biologists, 7 ; 

 physicists, 5; geologists, 5; mycologists 

 and bacteriologists, 21; irrigation engi- 

 neers, 8 ; in charge of substations, 12 ; sec- 

 retaries and treasurers, 29 ; librarians, 11 ; 

 clerks and stenographers, 40. There are 

 also 72 persons classified under the head of 

 ' miscellaneous, ' including superintendents 

 of gardens, grounds and buildings, apiar- 

 ists, plant and animal pathologists, herds- 

 men, poultrymen, etc. Three hundred and 

 nineteen station officers do more or less 

 teaching in the colleges with which the sta- 

 tions are connected. 



The activity and success of the stations 

 in bringing the results of their work before 

 the public continue unabated. During the 

 year they published 445 annual reports and 

 bulletins, which are many more than are 

 required by the Hatch Act. These were 

 supplied to over half a million addresses 

 on the regular mailing lists. A larger 

 number of stations than formerly supple- 

 mented their regular publications with 

 more or less frequent issues of press bulle- 

 tins, and most of the stations report a 

 large and constantly increasing correspond- 

 ence with farmers on a wide variety of 

 topics. 



FOREIGN EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Instances of governmental activity for 

 the advancement of agriculture in other 

 countries are numerous, both in the Old 

 World and the New. 



The Eussian department of agriculture 

 and Imperial domains has inaugurated a 

 system of commissioners of agriculture 

 who will correspond in a general way to 

 our commissioners of agriculture or to our 

 secretaries of State boards of agriculture. 

 Each commissioner's office will have con- 

 nected with it a corps of agricultural 

 specialists, who will work among the land- 

 owners and peasants. The Russian depart- 

 inent of agriculture and Imperial domains 

 is also displaying considerable activity in 

 its soil and forestry investigations and in 

 the establishment of stations for the inves- 

 tigation of special subjects, such as the 

 growing of flax, cotton, olives, etc. 



In Australia the Victoria department of 

 agriculture is undergoing reorganization. 

 The Victoria royal commission on technical 

 education has brought to a close its study 

 of Australian, European and American 

 departments of agriculture, agricultural 

 schools, and experiment stations, and pub- 

 lished its final (sixth) report. The minis- 

 ter of agriculture is now seeking a director 

 of agriculture, who will proceed to reor- 

 ganize the department and put it on a 

 better working basis. 



In England the board of agriculture has 

 made larger grants than formerly to agri- 

 cultural colleges and societies for conduct- 

 ing agricultural investigations. The agri- 

 cultural education committee is doing im- 

 portant work for agriculture and agricul- 

 tural education by publishing circulars on 

 various topics and nature study leaflets for 

 teachers. During the year Mr. John S. 

 Remington has established the Aynsome 

 Experiment Station at Lancashire, a pri- 

 vate institution. 



The Au.strian Government has recently 



