8° REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
_ priation, if we are to continue this work on the scale anticipated © 
when it was commenced. The experience of the last six years has 
suggested no branch or branches of this work which can be carried. 
on at less expense or advantageously discontinued. On the con- 
trary, we are constantly reminded that if we had the means we 
could establish additional departments with decided ee ie 
the great interests we are endeavoring to serve. 
The work at the Station during the past six years has been 
economically done. I present in Exhibit A a list of those States 
which had experiment stations in 1886, nine in all: Alabama, 
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, 
New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. The number of farms in each 
State, number of farmers, population and aggregate value of 
annual farm products is taken from the census of 1880. 4 
I present also, in Exhibit B, the annual State appropriation for 
each experiment station in each of these nine States, the total of 
salaries paid in each, the number of salaried officers in each, the 
per cent of the appropriation paid for salaries, the amount of tax 
to each farm in the State if the appropriation was wholly assessed 
upon the farms, the tax to each farmer if they alone were 
assessed, the tax per capita upon the whole population, the per- 
centage of the assessments upon the aggregate annual value of 
farm products in 1879. I desire to call attention to a few points 
disclosed in this Exhibit B. 
Exutpir A. 
States having Experiment Stations in 1886. 







Number Number F Aggregate 
offarms. | of farmers. | Population. | value of farm 
products. 
Alab TIVE apoio asl eleieiviainiaie's » Sie elelelare'a aig 135,864 380,630 1,262,505 $56 , 872,994 
Connecticut Slee d's'ts\'e) vate bud Olate id adete aie a - 30,598 44,026 622,700 18,010,075 
QUST ast ee Sa wae cramer Casals Mie aleiea eine 64,309 82,130 648 ,936 21,945,489 
Massachusetts i... .cacscecteescens 38,406 64,973 1,783,085 24,160,881 
North Caroling 200 nee ene | 157, 609 360,937 1,399,750 51,729,611 
ING Wi WOTSOV). Succc Macuser 34,307 59,214 1,131,116 29,650,756 
New NIRA at ee eel a aie ae ee 241,058 377,460 5,082,871 178,025 ,695 
Ohio. terehiiiel sls alelera' elm, di ofelal ie alaltfaiateltistess © 247,189 397 , 495 3,198,062 156,777,152 
VIBCONSIN 200 eee oy 134,322 195,901 1,315,497 72,779,496 




