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The Kentucky Legislature appropriated $2,000 for the preparation 

 and distribution of hog-cholera serum by the station. 



In Massachusetts an appropriation of $15,000 was made for the 

 purchase of a cranberry bog and for buildings and equipment. A 

 bog was purchased at a cost of $12,700, and a small building for use 

 in handling the crop and to provide quarters for office and laboratory 

 work is to be erected. 



The research laboratory of the Connecticut State station was 

 destroyed by fire on January 1, 1910, the most serious item of loss 

 being the valuable chemical laboratory and the animals which had 

 been under experiment for five months. The more valuable records 

 were in a fireproof vault, which was uninjured. The legislature has 

 made an appropriation of $30,000 for a fireproof addition to the 

 station laboratories to replace this building. According to the plans 

 for the new structure, the basement contains a laboratory, rooms for 

 machinery, sampling, storage, and spraying apparatus, and a fire- 

 proof vault; the first floor, a large chemical laboratory with offices, 

 storerooms, and library, the forester's office and workroom, rooms 

 for the botanical library and collections, the botanist's offices and 

 laboratories, and a second fireproof vault ; and the second floor, three 

 chemical laboratories with an office, library, and storerooms, and 

 rooms for the entomological collections', library, office, and labora- 

 tories. Outside of this building but connecting with it is to be a 

 two-story addition of glass and concrete, including an insectary and 

 greenhouse for the study of plant diseases. Among the new buildings 

 to be erected at the Connecticut college and station is a poultry plant 

 to cost about $5,000. 



A brick annex to the botanical building at the Michigan station, 

 33 by 61 feet, with two stories and basement, costing about $13,000, 

 together with a greenhouse, 24 by 40 feet, was erected. The erection 

 of a tool shed and workroom and a laboratory building for spraying 

 materials was authorized at the Virginia truck station. A horse 

 barn, costing $5,000, was erected on the Wyoming University stock 

 farm. 



Considerable progress was made at the Guam station in clearing 

 station land, laying out roads, and building fences. During the year 

 nearly the entire station area has been brought under cultivation, 

 and a small plantation of coffee comprising approximately 1 acre 

 of hill land was established for the purpose of demonstrating the 

 practicability of cultivating the relatively large areas of land of this 

 class which are now unused. 



Funds were allotted from the Hawaii Territorial income tax to 

 erect a new office building for the station at Honolulu. This new 

 structure is to be provided w^ith rooms for the library, storage space 

 for bulletins, and offices for five or six members of the staff. The 



