10 Director's Report of thb 



Mr. Patten was a graduate from the Chemical Course of the 

 University of Maine in 1897, and for three years was Assistant 

 Chemist in the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. Parrott graduated from the Kansas State Univereity in 

 1897, and until his appointment to this staff was Assistant Ento- 

 mologist at the Kansas Agricultural College. 



Two mein'bers of the staff are now away on leave of absence, 

 Mr. Edwin B. Hart and Mr. A. D. Cook.. The former is study- 

 ing in Europe and the latter at Cornell University. 



BUILDINGS AND THE GENERAL CONDITION OP THE STATION PROPERTY. 



The much needed 'appropriation for the ejection of a Director's 

 houise was granted by the Legislature of 1900. Contracts for 

 completing this building within the appropriation have been let 

 and its construction is well under way. 



The completion of the plan for the improvement which yon 

 adopted, requires that the building now occupied by offices and 

 the living rooms of the Director's family shall be recomstructed 

 internally so as to furnish convenient facilities for the entire 

 administrative work of the Station and the library. It is to be 

 hoped that means for doing this will be provided by the Legis- 

 lature of 1901. 



It may ibe said that in general the property of the Station is in 

 excellent condition. The chemical laboratory which has been 

 occupied nearly ten years without repairs will soon need more 

 or less attentioH, and a partial reconstruction of the interior 

 arrangement of the cattle barn should be accomplished. 



FINANCIAL CONDITION. 



The work of the Station has so developed during the last five 

 years that it requires careful planning to bring the expenses of 

 the institution within its present income, an income for which 

 no increase has 'been asked of the State during the past six years, 

 notwithstanding a consideraible enlargement of our staff and 

 activities. As a matter of fact, the annual appropriations for 

 maintenance which are raised by taxing the citizens of the State 

 are |10,000 less than they were previous to 1900, because the fer- 



