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for printing bulletins, $5,000 for extension work, and $10,000 for 

 general running expenses. 



The New Jersey Legislature in 1911 made an appropriation of 

 $15,000 for buildings and equipment in connection with poultry ex- 

 periments, together with $3,000 annually for the maintenance of 

 such work. For buildings and equipment in connection with flori- 

 cultural work $11,000 was appropriated and for its annual main- 

 tenance $3,000. The station also has an annual appropriation of 

 $3,000 for work in plant pathology, $2,000 for the investigation of 

 bee diseases, and $10,000 for live-stock problems. 



In addition to its regular appropriations, the New York State 

 station at Geneva was allowed $15,500 for the purchase of farm land 

 near the station. 



The station of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture had 

 available about $70,000 for experimental, demonstration, and farm- 

 ers' institute work. 



The Ohio station has an appropriation of $195,300 'for the differ- 

 ent station departments for the year 1912. For the year 1911 it had 

 $203,090, of which $39,855 was for land and buildings. 



The Oregon station has available for the year 1912 $15,000 for 

 work on fruit pests and diseases and other horticultural problems, 

 $10,000 for general station work, and $16,000 for the different sub- 

 stations at Union, Moro, Hermiston, Harney Valley, and the sub- 

 station in southern Oregon. 



•The South Carolina station and college constructed a dairy build- 

 ing at a cost of $25,000 and a dairy barn for $15,000. 



The State of Texas made an annual appropriation of $25,000 and 

 a deficiency appropriation of $3,000 for the series of State substa- 

 tions. 



The Utah Legislature in 1911 made a permanent yearly appropri- 

 ation of $15,000 for the maintenance of the substations. The ap- 

 propriation for extension work was increased and placed on a per- 

 manent annual basis of $10,000. 



The Virginia truck experiment station erected a greenhouse at a 

 cost of $2,320.75 and installed a Skinner irrigation system covering 

 about 4 acres of land at a cost of $831.71. 



The State of Washington early in 1911 included, among other 

 appropriations for the ensuing biennium, $20,000 for farmers' insti- 

 tutes and $30,000 for the Puyallup substation. A law providing a 

 tax of 0.325 mill on the assessed valuation of the State for the sup- 

 port of the college and station for the years 1913-1918, inclusive, 

 was also passed. 



At the Wisconsin station a new horticultural building costing 

 $50,000 and greenhouses $10,000, Avith $8,000 for equipment, and 

 a $20,000 addition to the dairy laboratories were completed. A 



