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for analyses of fertilizers, | f farm products, 
1105,64 LOO; miscellaneous, 150,187.91. [n addition to this, thet ►ffice 
<»t' Experiment Stations had an appropriation of I i for the pad 
fiscal year, including (12,< for the Alaska experiment stations, 
112,000 for the Hawaiian investigations, 112,000 for the Porto Etican 
investigations, |20,< for nutrition investigations, and $50,000 for 
irrigation investigations. The \ :ilu«* of additions t<> the equipment «>f 
the stations in L902 is estimated as follows: Buildings, $176,118.78; 
libraries, $11,941.98; apparatus, $19,727.94; farm implements, 
$14,9£ live stock, $20,554.27; miscellaneous, $19,509.09; total, 
62. 
The stations employ 710 persons in the work of administration and 
inquiry. The number of officers engaged in the different lines of 
work i- as follow-: Directors, 53; assistant and vice-directors, L8j 
special agents in charge, 3; chemists, L51; agriculturists, 54; agrono 
mists, 7: animal husbandmen, 25; horticulturists, 7.".: farm foremen, 
•_'.'»: dairymen, -'»4: botanists, 50; entomologists, 50; zoologists, 6; 
veterinarians, 27; meteorologists, 1*J: biologists, 8; physicists, ■>: geol- 
ogists, 4; mycologists and bacteriologists, 20; irrigation engineers, 
'.♦: in charge of substations, 14: secretaries and treasurers, 25; Libra- 
rians, 10; and clerks and stenographers, 11. There are also L03 persons 
classified under the head of " miscellaneous," including superintendents 
gardens, grounds, and buildings; apiarists, vegetable, plant, and 
animal pathologists; herdsmen, poultrymen, etc. 
Three hundred and sixty-four station officers do more or less teach- 
ing in the college with which tin 1 stations 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 373 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 supplemented their regular publications with 
more or Less frequent issues of pre-- bulletins, and most of the stations 
report a large and constantly increasing correspondence with farmers 
on a wide varietj of topics. 
