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miscellaneous expenses, a good portion of which last includes 
actual labor performed but not included in the pay-rolls of the - 
Station. This fact will explain the very great amount of work 
done at the Station, and it is interesting to observe that during 
the years 1890 and 1891 the regular annual appropriation for the 
Station was $20,000, while for 1892 and 1893 the appropriation 
— was $40,000 annually. 
In this connection it will be seen that, while at this Station dur- 
ing the last four years the relative amounts for salaries and labor 
have been — salaries 52.9 per cent, labor 47.1 per cent —it has 
been shown in a previous report that the average amounts for 
salary and labor in the Experiment Stations of the New England 
Middle States have been — for salaries 80.6 per cent and for labor 
19.4 per cent. New York, therefore, as will be seen, secures a 
far larger proportionate amount of work for the money 
expended. 
I desire in this connection to express my full appreciation of 
_ the zeal, intelligence and faithfulness with which, without excep- 
tion, so far as my knowledge extends, every one employed at the 
Station, whether upon the staff of assistants or of the number of 
laborers, has performed his allotted portion of work, thus render- 
ing the labor not only pleasant, but making it possible, with a 
force so comparatively small, t>» have accomplished so much. 
Commercial Fertilizers. 
During the past yeir there have been analyzed 330 different 
brands of fertilizers, the samples of which have been taken by an 
agent of the Station. 
Besides these official samples analyses have been made so far 
as it has been possible to do so, of unofficial samples sent in by 
different parties throughout the State, of fertilizers, marls, ashes 
and so forth, but, owing to the difficulty of securing a fair sam- 
ple, unless one is informed as to the proper method of procedure, 
as also owing to the fact that such unofficial samples do not, in 
case such samples are not found to be up to the guaranteed com- 
position, offer the proper evidence desirable to warrant a prose- 
-cution of the parties selling such inferior products, it is very 
_ desirable that the work of analysis at the Station should be con- 
fined to those samples only collected by our duly appointed and 
_well-instructed agents, through whom it is intended to secure 
