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tioned, amounting to about £2,000 each. The total income 
of the stations during 1899 was £238,195, of which £150,000 
was received from the National Government, the remainder, 
£88,195, coming from the following sources :—State Govern- 
ments, £50,063; individuals and communities, £2,521; fees 
for analyses of fertilisers, £15,686; sales of farm products, 
414,440; miscellaneous, £5,485. In addition to this, the 
Office of Experiment Stations had an appropriation of 
48,333 for the past fiscal year, including £2,083 for the 
Ala:kan investigation. The value of additions to equipment 
of the stations in 1899 is estimated as follows :—Buildings, 
£5,671; libraries, £2,249; apparatus, £3,524; farm imple- 
ments, 42,247; live stock, £3,389; miscellaneous, £4,692 ; 
total, £21,772. | 
The stations employ 678 persons in the work of adminis- 
tration and inquiry. The number of officers engaged in the 
different lines of work is as follows :—Directors, 71 ; chemists, 
148; experts in animal husbandry, 9; agriculturists, 68 ; 
horticulturists, 77 ; farmforemen, 21; dairymen, 23; botanists, 
52; entomologists, 48; veterinarians, 26: meteorologists, 17 ; 
biologists, 7; physicists, 7; geologists, 5; mycologists and 
bacteriologists, 20; irrigation engineers, 5; in charge of 
sub-stations, 16; secretaries and treasurers, 24; librarians 9; 
and clerks, 43. There are also 48 persons classified under the 
head *‘ Miscellaneous,” 
grounds, and buildings, apiarists, herdsmen, etc. 308 station 
officers do more or less teaching in the colleges with which 
the stations are connected. 
including superintendents of gardens - 
During 1899 the stations published 445 annual reports and 
bulletins, containing 16,924 pages. Beside regular reports 
and bulletins, a number of the stations issued press bulletins, 
which were widely reproduced in the agricultural and 
county papers. The mailing lists of the stations aggregate 
523,970 addresses. 
