
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. BL 
fertilizer, ashes or manure, who shall have reported to him as provided 
in section (2) two of this act. Said director is hereby authorized, in per- 
gon or by deputy, to take samples for analysis from any lot or package 
of fertilizer, ashes or manure which may be in possession of any agent 
or seller. | 
 §6. This act shall take effect the first day of February, eighteen 
__ hnndred and eighty-nine. 
-__- It will be observed, however, that in this amended bill there is 
an important omission, since no provision is made for defraying 
the inevitable expense attending the carrying of the law into effect. 
There appears to be a growing sentiment that such provision 
should be made by the State, and not rest as a tax upon the 
manufacturer or consumer of fertilizers. In regard to the expense 
P attending this work, Dr. Cook, director of the New Jersey Experi- 
_ ment Station, says, in speaking of the fertilizer control stations in 
connection with the Hatch Experiment Station Bill, which appro- 
'priates $15,000 annually to each State: “The demand for such 
fertilizer control is sufficient to occupy the full force of a Station 
of the size contemplated by the Experiment Station Law.” 
_ Dr. Cook, who has for a long time had this matter under his 
control in New Jersey, is a competent witness as to the necessary 
expense involved in the conduct of such fertilizer control station, 
- and it is to be understood that he speaks from his experience in 
_ New Jersey, where the State provides by appropriation for the 
expense connected with this work. It is hardly to be presumed 
_ that the expense of the same work in New York will be propor- 
_ tioned to the relative size of the two States, but_it is well to 
compare the two in considering the needs of our State for this 
_ purpose. New Jersey has an area of 7,815 square miles, while 
_ New York has an area of 49,170. The number of farms in New 
_ Jersey is 34,307 ; in New York, 241,058. The number of farmers 
_ in New Jersey is 22,672 ; in New York, 241,507. The number of 
' those engaged in agriculture in New Jersey is 59,214; in New 
‘York, 377,460. In this connection it will be necessary to consider 
_ the need of provision for a chemical laboratory suitable for the 
_ carrying on of this proposed work, and I would mention a portion 
_ of an act passed by the Senate and General Assembly of the State 
of New Jersey, approved April 23, 1888: ‘“ Be it enacted (ete.) thas 
the sum of thirty thousand dollars be and hereby is appropriated 
or the construction of a State laboratory for the, Agricultural 









