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3. It appears also from Exhibit B that were this entire appro- 
- priation levied upon the farm the average annual cost to each 
farm in New York would be less than eight and one-third 
cents, while in Connecticut and Massachusetts it is three times, 
_and in New Jersey four times, as great. If assessed only upon the 
farmers it would constitute an annual tax upon each farmer in 
New York of less than five and one-third cents; Connecticut, Mas- 
sachusetts and New Jersey farmers paying three times as much. 
If levied upon the population it is less than four mills per capita 
per annum, while the good people of Connecticut groan under a 
per capita tax, for this purpose, of over one cent per annum, and 
the inhabitant of New Jersey is nearly as heavily burdened. 
Finally, we find that this annual appropriation is only +55 of one 
per cent of the aggregate annual value of the farm crops of New 
York, while it is nearly four times as great in Connecticut, Massa- 
chusetts and New Jersey. 
Certainly no one can count this an oppressive burden; were it 
one hundred times as great it could scarcely be felt, and the 
results flowing from such increased facilities in the solution of 
the countless problems which stand in the way of advancing 
agriculture would in a decade repay this expenditure a hundred- 
fold. 
4, I desire to call attention also to the fact that this work 
_ done at your Station these last six years, has been of very great 
value, and has been directly in the line of the best work done 
by similar Stations not only in this country, but in every country 

of Europe. 
Professor Henry E. Alvord, of Amherst Agricultural College, 
recently elected as director of the experiment station in 
Maryland, in a late paper, in which he elaborately discusses 
the question of milk, butter, cheese, etc., makes (13) thirteen 
distinct references to the invaluable work in this direction which 
has been accomplished at your Station at Geneva. Very clearly 
Mr. Alvord is of the opinion that your Station has done valuable 
scientific and practical work in behalf of this immense dairy 
is interest, in which, as you well know, the Empire State stands at 
_ the head of all the States of the Union. 
| Whatever of criticism may be justly brought against the work 
of Dr. Sturtevant, is for sins of omission, and of those no one was 
more cognizant than he ; but those were faults, if faults they were, 
