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old office building is to be turned over to the joint use of the chemist 

 and bacteriologist, and the quarters now used by the chemist will be 

 used for storage i:)urposes. 



At the University of Missouri the new agricultural hall was dedi- 

 cated during the sixth annual farmers' week, on December 28. The 

 Ehode Island station completed a hospital building for use in the 

 investigation of the diseases of poultry and methods for their control. 



At the North Dakota college and station an excellent new veteri- 

 nary building was completed and provided with equipment. A new 

 chemistry building is being built to rejolace the one destroyed by 

 fire last year, a seed house at the Dickinson substation to cost $3,500, 

 and a residence at the Hettinger substation. The station sheep barns 

 have also been enlarged. 



At the South Dakota station a very complete fruit-breeding house 

 was erected, to be used entirely in the work of originating hardy 

 fruits for western conditions. This is reported to be the largest 

 structure for conducting breeding studies to be found in the world. 



The Ohio station has let contracts for the erection of a soil labora- 

 tory 23 by 30 feet in size, one and one-half stories high, and also for 

 a one and one-half story brick power house, 34 by 39 feet. A dwell- 

 ing near the main building was purchased for office purposes until 

 funds can be secured for additional office and laboratory structures. 



At the Florida station $7,500 was allotted for the equipment of 

 the new station building. 



At the Nevada station, one wing of a new greenhouse was erected 

 at a cost of $5,000, and a room for the station library added to one of 

 the buildings and equipped. 



The new buildings erected during the year at the Colorado station 

 include a number of structures costing about $2,000, for use in the 

 station poultry experiments, and a model potato cellar costing about 

 $800. About one-third of the space in the new irrigaton engineer- 

 ing building, which was completed during the year, is provided for 

 the experiment station. 



A new building for the departments of entomology and geology 

 at the Massachusetts college and station was completed and dedi- 

 cated soon after the close of the fiscal year. The appropriation for 

 this building was $80,000, to which has been added $15,000 for 

 equipment. 



The Minnesota station erected and equipped during the year a new 

 vaccine building, at an aj)proximate cost of $10,000. This building 

 was equipped especially for the manufactvire of virus. The dena- 

 tured-alcohol plant provided for last year was erected and equipped 

 for experimental work on the production of alcohol and will be 

 ready for operation in 1911. The cajDacity of the plant is 50 proof 

 gallons of alcohol per day, and its cost was $6,000. Further, a 



