Wd as 
§ 
{ } 
\ 
tail 
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 31 
‘ other persons necessary to the carrying on of the work of these 
branch stations. Said board may acquire by lease or otherwise 
such real estate as may in their judgment be necessary for carrying 
on the work, and shall have the direction of the expenditure of all _ 
- moneys appropriated and set apart-to such branch station for. the 
purpose aforesaid or otherwise received therefor. The board of con- 
trol of each branch’station which shall be established under this act. 
shall annually make a full report to the director of the state agricul- 
tural experiment station at Geneva, which shall be embodied in his 
annual report. All property acquired by the said board shall belong 
to the state, and shall be disposed of and used only as authorized by 
law. | 
§ 5. The sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 
may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act, is hereby 
appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, which sum shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of 
control of the state agricultural experiment station at Geneva at such 
times and in such sums as the board of control of such station may 
require upon the order of the comptroller of the state of New York, 
who is hereby directed to draw his,order for the same on the treasurer 
of the state. 
§ 6. Every member of the board of control of the several branch 
stations: which shall be established under the provisions of this act 
shall’ be paid his necessary traveling expenses as well as those 
- incutred by him while in actual attendance upon the meetings of his 
board, but no member shall receive any other remuneration as such 
member. ; 
§ 7. The boards of control of the several branch stations which may 
_be established under this act shall make such rules and regulations 
as may from time to time become necessary to carry out the objects 
of said branch stations. 
§ 8. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Tt is believed that with the amount mentioned in the bill there 
could be established and maintained ten branch stations in as 
_ many different sections of the State, the scientific supervision and 
work being done by the central tation at Geneva. 
CHANGES IN YIELD AND VaLvuE or Farm Crops In New York. 
In the following tables I have given the average acreage yield 
in bushels or pounds of our leading crops in the State for the 
several periods, 1862 to 1870, inclusive, 1871 to 1879, inclusive, 
