Aside from the above regular farmers' institutes the following

special institutes were held during the year 1904:

The expenses in conducting the work of this Department during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1904, were as follows:

STATEMENT OF SALARIES AND EXPENSES OF THE COMMISSIONER, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS, EXPERTS, AGENTS, CHEMISTS, ETC., FOR THE YEAR 1903-4.

Sugar beet instruction (including printing). 1,384 00

2,741 64

RECOMMENDATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1905.

I hereby respectfully make the following recommendations as to appropriations necessary to carry on the work of the Department of Agriculture under the present Agricultural Law:

For the general work of the Department, salaries and

expenses...

For farmers' institutes.

$158,440

20,000

For the general work of the experiment station at Geneva.
For the enforcement of the provisions of the Fertilizer Law
For the enforcement of the Feeding Stuff Inspection Law..
For maintaining the veterinary college at Cornell uni-
versity.....

$60,500

10,000

3,500

20,000

For the enforcement of the provisions of the Agricultural
Law, relative to the diseases of fruit trees, nursery in-

spection, etc.....

25,000

For the purposes of enforcing the Agricultural Law,
relative to the diseases of domestic animals...
For the enforcement of the provisions of Article II of the
Agricultural Law, relative to pure food.....

20,000

10,000

Respectfully submitted.

C. A. WIETING,

Commissioner of Agriculture.

FINANCIAL REPORTS

OF THE

New York State Fair, and the County, Town and
Other Agricultural Societies in the State of
New York, for the Year 1904.