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tific research had been made in this line we may know that the 
work was very tedious, and many experiments had to be carried 
on for comparison and verification, and we may well be proud as a 
State of this work in which our station has been the pioneer. 
The cordial indorsements of the work being, done at the sta- 
tion by those so well known throughout the State as are Messrs. 
Powell, Willard and Dawley, is sufficient evidence, were all else _ 
lacking, as to the practical as well as scientific value of our inves- 
tigations, the results of which should be in the possession of every 
farmer of the State in whatever branch of agriculture he may be 
engaged. 
Agricultural Experiment Stations of Europe, New England 
and New York. 
In my last report I presented certain statistics setting forth the - 
extent of the agricultural industries of New York, as compared 
with the New England and Middle States, excepting only Penn- 
sylvania, from which it appeared that New York exceeded all the 
States by six-tenths of one per cent in the acreage of its leading 
crops, was slightly in excess of all in the aggregate value of its lead- 
ing crops; that the number of farms and of farmers in New York 
was over eighty per cent of those in all these States, and that 
while upon an average in these Stafes but ‘ifty-four pér cent 
of the land was in farms there was seventy-six per cent of the 
area of New York in farms. | 
In advancing these great interests by scientific investigation 
and experiment, New York has by no means been unmindful, but 
if our State should provide for such work in proportion to what 
has been done in these New England ind Middle States, it should 
annually appropriate for experiment stations, if in proportion tc 
| its number of farmers, $145,542; and if in proportion to the valne 
of its crops, $181,792; and if in proportion to its acreage in crops, 
$192,123. . 
The following table shows by comparison how the several yov- 
ernments of Europe have provided for advancing the intelligence 
and welfare of their agricultural classes by means of scientific 
investigation of the constantly increasing number of practical 
_ agricultural problems. 

