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appear that any Experiment Station, wherever located, is largely 
a local institution, and that its results, however valuable and how- 
ever clearly established, are necessarily limited to the conditions 
obtaining at the locality where such experiments are being 
conducted. 
It is true that the farm belonging to the’ Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station closely resembles in character of soil many thousands 
of farms within the State, it being mainly composed of clay, clay 
and gravelly clay loam, so that methods of culture here found best 
may be, almost without modification, applied to many other locali- 
ties, and the results here obtained may be confidently predicted in 
such similar localities. 
But in view of the fact that this is a State institution and its 
benefits may justly be demanded by every agricultural interest of 
the State, it appears most desirable that in the near future there 
should be established in several different sections of the State 
branch experiment stations for the purpose of determining the 
results which are produced by differences of soil and climate. Such 
work could and would be conducted by intelligent farmers in their 
several sections, under the direction and supervision of the central 
Station, and in this way the useful work and influence of the 
Station could be widely distributed at a very slight additional 
expense. 
It would seem best that such branch stations should be under 
the immediate supervision of local boards of control, who would 
themselves best select the one most intelligent and most in ~ 
sympathy with the work to carry out the several experiments 
undertaken at these several branch stations, and who would thus 
feel a greater degree of personal responsibility for its thorough 
conduct. : 
The director will very gladly enter into correspondence with 
parties and especially agricultural societies in the several sections 
of the State, through which some such plan as is above outlined 
_may be perfected and carried into execution. 
It is said that there are to-day in the German ae alone 184 
agricultural experiment stations engaged in the promotion of 
every branch of agriculture. It would seem that as many as ten 
branch stations could find profitable employment in the solution 
2 of the numerous problems which are presenting themselves in the 
many and yarious fields of agricultural industry of our Empire State. 
