72 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



A few cases remain in which the States make no specific appropria- 

 tion for the station, but in such cases the restrictions surrounding the 

 Federal funds make it very difficult for the stations to meet all the 

 varied demands upon them. 



Among the new a^Dpropriations for the year the following may be 

 mentioned : 



The Oregon college and station received among other appropria- 

 tions $20,000 for the purchase of additional land; $2,500 was made 

 available for dry-farm experiments, and $3,000 for irrigation experi- 

 ments, both in cooperation with this department; and $15,000 was 

 granted for the maintenance of the eastern Oregon substation. 



In Wyoming $7,500 was jjrovided by the legislature for experi- 

 mental work in dry farming. In Connecticut $4,000 was given for 

 maintenance of the Storrs station, and $8,500 for the purchase of an 

 additional farm. 



The appropriations made by the General Assembly of Ohio to the 

 station for the ensuing year aggregated $166,295, an increase of 

 nearly $50,000 over the previous year. Some of the principal items 

 were $26,300 for administration, $16,475 for agronomy, $15,000 for 

 animal husbandry, $10,900 for botany, $20,470 for cooperative ex- 

 periments, $5,000 for entomology, $10,000 for forestry, $10,500 for 

 soils, $3,700 for chemistry, $10,950 for horticulture, $4,000 for nutri- 

 tion, $17,000 for comjDleting the nutrition building, $3,000 for the ex- 

 tension of the jDOwer house, and $4,000 for the purchase of land. In 

 addition to this there was an appropriation of $8,000 for the new 

 department of dairy husbandry. 



In Texas a State appropriation of $1,000 annually for the cur- 

 rent biennium was made for tobacco investigations, in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this department at its tobacco 

 station at Nacogdoches. 



Under an act passed by Congress the State of Colorado may pur- 

 chase 1,600 acres of public land in Larimer County for the use of the 

 college and station. In this way it is hoped to obtain considerable 

 tracts of land in reasonable proximity to the college, too broken and 

 rocky as a whole for agriculture, but containing parcels of from 1 

 to 4 acres, at various altitudes, which can be used to advantage for 

 experimental and demonstration purposes. 



The Colorado Legislature also appropriated $50,000 for work in 

 agi'icultural extension, which will be largely sjjent in holding one- 

 week extension schools throughout the State. During the j'ear 34 

 such schools were held and it is hoped to double this number during 

 the coming year. 



The New York Legislature in making its appropriations for Cor- 

 nell University included an increase of $2,000 for extension work and 

 $90,000 for a poultry building. 



