2S Sr.M'E BOy\Un OF AGRICULTUKR. 



Agriculture wa8 created by the Legislature and given charge of the 

 college. This Board at that time consisted of six members appointed 

 by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. The appointments wei^e 

 so arranged that two members retired each two years. In 1905 the 

 Legislature added anolher member to the Board. This member was 

 appointed in the same way, and for the same length of term as the other 

 members, but it was stipulated that he should be a resident of the 

 Northern Peninsula of the state. The Governor of the state and the 

 President of the college Avere ex-officio members of the Board. The 

 new constitution of the state, which was adopted by the vote of the 

 people in November last year, changed the organization of the Board 

 and the method of the selection of its members. It provides that, 

 ''There shall be elected on the first Monday in April, nineteen hundred 

 nine, a state board of agriculture to consist of six members, two of 

 whom shall hold office for two years, two for four years and two for six 

 years. At every regular biennial spring election thereafter, there shall 

 be elected two members whose term of office shall be six years. The 

 members thus elected and their successors in office shall be a body cor- 

 porate to be known as 'The State Board of Agriculture.' " Under this 

 act the following persons were elected as members of the new Board: 



Wm. H. Wallace, Bay Port, term of six years. 



I. Eoy Waterbury, Highland, term of six years. 



Eobert I). Graham, Grand Eapids, term of four years. 



A. J. Doherty, Clare, term of four yeai*s. 



W. L. Carpenter, Detroit, term of two years. 



W. J. Oberdortfer, Stephenson, term of two years. 



The Legislature passed an act fixing the time at which the new Board 

 should take charge as January 1st, 1910. This act also rei>eals several 

 former acts relating to the college and makes other changes rendered 

 necessary by the new constitution. 



On account of the shortage of funds in our State Treasury, it was 

 deemed advisable not to ask the last Legislature for additional appro- 

 priations. Our sources of income at present are as follows: Interest 

 from the fund accruing from the sale of land appropriated by Congress 

 under the Morrill act of 1862, |69,527.13; from the second Morrill act 

 of 1800, 125,000.00; from the act of 1907, know as the Nelson Amend- 

 ment, 110,000.00; from the Hatch act of 1887, .^15,000.00 and from the 

 Adams act of 1906, |11,000.00. It will be obsei-ved that these funds 

 come to us from the Federal Government. We received from the state 

 last year »$17?>,410.00, income from our one-tenth mill tax. In addition 

 to these funds, we have the receipts from the various departments, fees, 

 room rent, etc. 



BUILDINGS. 



The Board has decided to erect an addition to the botanical building 

 in the near future. This will add practically six recitation rooms and 

 will afford accommodations which have been very much iu demand for 

 several years. The Federal Government has already let the contract 

 for the erection of a building for the weather bureau service. The 

 Legislature authorized the Board to sell to the Federal Goverament a 

 suitable piece of ground as a site for this building. The location de- 

 cided upon is directly west of the college hospital. The building will 



