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Aside from the above reason for the erection of a new building, 

 to contain administrative offices, demonstration space, the library 

 and an audience room, the following needs justify the request of 

 your Board, which are restated here as given in my last two re- 

 ports. 



(1) There is no place at the institution where an audience can 

 be assembled, excepting out of doors in the pleasant days of the 

 warm season. This is wrong; for the work of the Station stands 

 in such relation to educational interests and farm practice that 

 some way of assembling audiences on the Station ground and bring- 

 ing them into close range with the Station activities and results 

 should be made possible. 



(2) It is extremely desirable that space shall be provided where 

 the results of Station work can be illustrated in a concrete form. 

 We have many visitors who state that they come to see what the 

 Station is doing, not realizing that in the progress of our inquiries 

 they can only see a single point in the progress of an experiment 

 or investigation, which to the untrained eye may be meaningless. 



Space is needed for the objective display of results that have 

 been reached in dairy work, in the study of farm pests, field experi- 

 ments and in other directions. Such an exhibit would be espe- 

 cially useful and instructive in connection with meetings here of 

 horticultural societies and other bodies interested in special lines 

 of production. 



(3) The number of the scientific staff is now such that more 

 office room is needed. This can be provided by removing the 

 museum collections in the building now occupied by the depart- 

 ments of bacteriology, botany, dairying, entomology and horticul- 

 ture, to the proposed new building. 



(4) The building now used for administrative and library pur- 

 poses is needed for other uses. It has come to be necessary to ar- 

 range for boarding the unmarried members of the staff at some 

 point nearer than the city. Rooms are now available on the Sta- 

 tion grounds, but arrangements for meals near the Station are now 

 difficult and uncertain, sometimes impossible. With slight ex- 



