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Report oF THE DirREcCTOR OF THE 
conclusion let your committee urge all who possibly can to visit z a 
the Station and see for themselves, and all to read the bulletins, — 
so as to keep in touch with the work.” 
It is noteworthy that the above is the official testimony of a 
committee representing an association of 36,000 farmers distri- 
buted through two-thirds of the counties of the State. 
- His Excellency, the Governor, recently spent the greater por- 
tion of a day in careful investigation of each branch of the work 
of the Station, and has since given repeated testimony to the 
excellence and practical value to the farmers of the State of the — 
work being carried on at the Station. | 
It is, of course, highly gratifying to be able to present such 
testimony as the foregoing, and it would seem a sufficient answer 
to those who have had no opportunity by personal inspection to 
confirm such evidence, and yet are in doubt as to whether the 
Station is in its work and its results rendering to the farmers of 
the State needed information as to agricultural methods and 
practice equivalent to its cost of maintenance, and, therefore, 
deserving their attention and support. 
- It would seem that there could be no doubt of this so long as. 
ninety per cent of our farmers complain of their calling as no 
longer profitable, while ten per cent, even in these times, still 
find farming both pleasant and ‘profitable, and especially when 
those most prosperous in the pursuit are of those who are availing 
themselves of the new methods, pursuing the new paths which, 
to a great extent, our Experiment Stations have marked out. 
Amounts ExpENDED FoR SaLARizs, Lasor AND EXPENSES. 
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YEAR. Salaries. Labor. Expenses. Per cent ratio. 
TODO, os. $8,269 92 $6,010 71 | $5,702 71 41.4 30.1 .2875m 
DP RGN e ss (s 6,873 70 6,296 31 6,848 29 384.3 34.5 31.2 
Te08 12,765 88 | 11,452 77 | 15,783 82 | 81.9 28.6 89.6. 
igh tea 13,313 22 | 12,964 20 | 12,152 06 34.6 338.7) Shar 




$41,222 72 |$36,723 99 1$40,486 88 | 34.8 31.0 34.2 
From the above it will be seen that the average expenses of 
the Station for the past four years have been approximately one- 
third for salaries, one-third for labor and the remaining third for — 
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