
New York AGRIoULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. BT 
If we even include Russia with its vast territory, much of which 
is wilderness, these countries average one experiment station for 
every 12,902 square miles, and in proportion New York should 
have four stations. y 
If Russia be excluded the average is cne station for every 4,702 
square miles, and thus proportionally New York should have ten 
stations. ; 
In respect to population, these countries, mcluding Russia, 
have one station for every 1,208,436 of their people, and in pro- 
portion New York should have four stations, while, if we exclude 
Russia, the remaining countries have one station to each 886,260 
of their population, and in proportion New York State should 
have six experiment stations. 
From the annual reports of the several New England and Middle 
States the following table has been prepared which gives the 
income of the several stations and the aggregate amounts paid 
by each for salaries and for labor; and it will be seen that while 
the New York station expends for syaiaries no more than the 
average of these other eleven stations, it expends nearly four 
times the average of these eleven stations for labor and while, 
on an average, the expenses for labor are only twenty-four per 
cent of the amount paid by these stations for salaries, the New 
York station pays for labor 91.6 per cent as much,as is paid for 
salaries. 
The expenses of the fertilizer-control station consist largely in 
the skilled chemical work of making analyses. 
