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The old mansion house, now occupied by the administrative 

 offices and library, is needed as a place where the members of the 

 staff and other employees can get meals, and where living rooms 

 can be furnished to those persons who should be on the Station 

 grounds. The Station is a mile and a half from the city where 

 board can be obtained and it is time-consuming and wasteful for 

 members of the Station staff to travel so far in order to get a midday 

 meal. It is important that such accommodations exist as the 

 mansion house would furnish if the administrative offices and library 

 could be moved into another building. 



In the thirty years' existence of the Station, there has been appro- 

 priated to it for buildings in all only $155,450. Twenty-seven 

 buildings now exist on the Station property, and it is fair to claim 

 that no other State institution has a better record for economy of 

 expenditure in the way of building equipment. 



The time has come when in order to carry on its work with the 

 desired efficiency new and greatly enlarged plant houses should be 

 provided. The present plant houses of the Station were erected 

 about twenty-five years ago. They have exceeded the usual life of 

 such structures, and are now neither adequate nor efficient. There 

 is a large amount of work in agricultural investigation which should 

 be carried on in such houses, if carried on at all, and includes plant 

 breeding, plant nutrition and studies of plant diseases and injurious 

 insects, to all of which lines the Station is obliged to give much 

 attention. 



The small cold-storage house, established chiefly for the storing 

 of fruits, was erected at the Station something more than twenty 

 years ago. The preservation of fruits, of which the Station has 

 several thousand varieties, requires cold storage facilities in order 

 that such materials may be used for study and exhibition purposes. 

 The present cold-storage plant is inadequate in size and construction 

 and if retained will need enlargement and extensive repairs. A new 

 building should be erected. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the Station during the year 1914 consist of 

 21 regular bulletins, 8 technical bulletins and 7 circulars. Of the 

 regular or complete bulletins, 14 have been popularized in a brief 



