New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 9 
tion has not kept pace with the aid rendered by the State to other 
efforts in the interest of agriculture, particularly agricultural edu- 
cation in its various forms and the defense and encouragement of 
agriculture through a State Department. The following figures 
make this clear, which refer to appropriations for annual mainte 
nance and not for buildings. 

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State 
Agricultural eA cigt State Agricultural | Agricultural 
societies. Sat Fare Department.| education. |investigation, 
| 
Appropriations 1896.. $5, ,000 $30 , 000 $119,500 $16,000 $58 , 000 
Appropriations 1908.. 250,000 87,650 348 , 260 180 100 76,000 

The sums appropriated to the Station for aiding in the enforce- 
ment of inspection laws should not be regarded as used in the work 
of inquiry. 
It is seen that for the enforcement of agricultural law and the 
encouragement of agriculture in various ways the sum used has 
trebled or more while the amount applied to agricultural education 
has come to be nearly two and one-half times that expended in 
agricultural investigation, increases that are entirely to be com- 
mended. 
In considering these facts some may argue that the sums applied 
in the several directions are in proportion to the needs. Such a 
position can hardly be sustained. The technical work of the agri- 
cultural college and school is utterly dependent upon scientific in- 
quiry and without it modern agricultural education would not have 
been possible. Further progress in our knowledge of the principles 
of agriculture will come, not from the teacher but from the investi- 
gator. Moreover, the administration of law in the interests of 
agriculture finds an indispensable aid in the studies of the labora- 
tory. But more insistent than all else are the present great un- 
solved agricultural problems that are facing us in soil management, 
animal husbandry, fruit production and in the defense of crops 
against pests and untoward conditions. Agricultural practice is 
handicapped not alone by ignorance of what is known but also by 
our limitations of knowledge. We have learned much during the 
past fifty years but we have scarcely begun the solution of many 
of our severest and most important problems. 
The sum for which your Board is asking is no greater, and in 
some cases less, than large states like California, Illinois and Ohio 
