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New Yorx AaricutturaAL Experiment STATION. 13 
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In presenting, therefore, at this time, as I shall do, a necessarily 
brief mention of the several items of work which have been 
_ accomplished in the several divisions into which our work naturally 
divides itself, it is obvious that I can not stop to enlarge upon the 
importance of many, if any, of these, nor dwell upon the amount 
of labor and time spent in each investigation before satisfactory 
conclusions have been reached, but I shall give the volume and 
_ page of each annual report or the number and page of each 
bulletin where all the data concerning each investigation has been 
carefully recorded, so that whoever of you may be interested in 
any particular matter may, by application to the station, possess 
such ‘bulletin or report, provided that they are not already in 
- your possession as they should be. 
As evidence of the rapidly increasing interest among our farm- 
ers in the work of the station, the following statement of the 
_ clerk and stenographer (Mr. F’. E. Newton) is submitted.- Besides 
the mailing of bulletins and circulars, which now amounts to a 
daily average of over 350, the number of letters written, of which 
copies have been kept as worth preserving, will show the increase 
in the correspondence of the station since its establishment: 

