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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 15 
of agricultural implements, the nurserymen and fruit-growers, and 
the poultrymen are unanimous in their desire to have this work 
entered upon and are ready to contribute, many, if not all of them, 
to supply the Station with choice animals and implements, and 
trees and fruits, and the material necessary ie which to carry 
on this work. 
It is hoped that there will be provided at the Station the means 
of securing protection to the farmers of the State in the purchase 
of fertilizers, for which there is at the present so large a demand 
and the use of which is so rapidly increasing. At the present we 
are mainly indebted to the supervision and control which our 
neighboring States are exercising upon this matter for the protec- 
tion which we should secure for ourselves. 
It appears most desirable that in the near future there should be 
established in several different sections of the State branch Experi- 
ment Stations for the purpose of determining the results which 
are produced by differences of soil or 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 appears desirable that provision be at once made for the 
erection of a suitable building for the reception and exhibition of 
such farm implements as have been or may soon be presented to 
the State, so soon as it is known that such will be received and 
cared for, as a nucleus of this permanent exhibition to which ref- 
ence has been made. 
It is desirable that this Station should be permanently provided 
with an adequate library of books of reference upon the various 
matters pertaining to agricultural science, and with the various 
appliances in the way of scientific apparatus necessary for the pros- 
ecution of its work; and while the slight additions to library and 
apparatus, which might from time to time be necessary, could be 
made from the annual appropriation, it is not sufficient to provide 
for the large outlay demanded for library and apparatus at the 
outset; and thus far the Station has largely depended for those 
upon the private property of its director. 
I need not say that all these requirements for the present, or in 
the near future, will demand money, but I am confident that if 
very much more than we may ask for should be demanded to 
