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RECOMMENDATIONS 



There is a pressing need for a man to take up research in pomology. 

 Tliis work of the Department has not received the attention that it 

 deserves. The Department will be much more efficient and helpful to 

 growers in New York when this work can be undertaken. 



There is also great need for satisfactory storage space and for 

 sufficient offices, laboratories, and classrooms. The only storage space 

 available is a small room in the basement of the Dairy Building. Not only 

 is this too small, but it is impossible to reduce the temperature sufficiently 

 to preserve fruit. A mechanical storage, with one large room (i,ooo 

 barrels capacity) and several smaller rooms for experimental work, is 

 needed. It will be necessary in the immediate future to provide a packing 

 house and barn on the pomology grounds, and in connection with this a 

 residence for the foreman of the grounds. 



The Department needs more office room. At least four additional 

 offices are necessary at this time to accommodate the members of the 

 Department. The need of a laboratory for graduate students is pressing. 

 At the present time there are several graduate students in the Department, 

 but there is no place where they can work without interruption. 



C. S. WILSON, 

 Professor of Pomology. 



