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new domestic science building and a new chemical building, to cost 

 $75,000 and $90,000, respectively, are in course of construction. The 

 appropriation for extension work now amounts to $40,000 annually. 



SUBSTATIONS AND DEMONSTRATION FARMS. 



Progress was made during the year in providing for practical ex- 

 periments for local conditions, and the application and adaptation 

 of methods and crops to particular localities and conditions, by estab- 

 lishing or providing for substations and demonstration farms in a 

 number of States. So far as these are experimental they are regarded 

 as forming a part of the stations' work, rather than coming under 

 the head of extension work. Frequently, however, the division is 

 not complete in all respects. 



The State of California appropriated $25,000 for a building for a 

 citrus substation and its equipment, to be located at Riverside. 



The Territorial Legislature of Hawaii made a grant of $20,000 for 

 the biennium for maintaining demonstration farms on the various 

 islands. 



At the Louisiana college and station a truck farm was established 

 at Baton Rouge, partly for the purpose of stud3dng the marketing 

 of truck produce in the North. G. L. Tiebout, of the station staff, was 

 placed in charge of this farm. 



The possession of a cranberry bog was secured by the Massachusetts 

 station during the year. Improvements were carried out and experi- 

 mental work was begun. The tract is located at East Wareham, 

 Mass., and contains about 23 acres, including 12 acres of made bog, 

 with provision for flooding by means of a pumping plant put in at 

 a cost of about $2,000. 



In Michigan the Upper Peninsula substation at Chatham received 

 as a donation from the Cleveland Cliff Iron Co. GOO acres of land 

 adjoining the station property. 



By an act of the Minnesota Legislature, approved April 13, 1911, 

 $05,000 was appropriated for the purchase of land, equipment of a 

 station, and its maintenance for two years, to be located at Duluth; 

 and $35,000 for the purchase of land, equipment, and maintenance for 

 two years of a substation to be located at Waseca. 



The Legislature of Missouri of 1911 passed an act appropriating 

 $5,000 for the purpose of establishing a State poultry experiment 

 station at Mountain Grove on 25 acres of land used by the State 

 Fruit Experiment Station, and $5,000 additional for its maintenance. 



The Nebraska Legislature of 1911, by an act approved April, 1911, 

 appropriated $15,000,- to be expended by the State board of regents 

 for the establishment of a substation near Culbertson. The act makes 

 the ))rovision that in the event that the Southwest Nebraska Agri- 



