CONNECTICUT. 109 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as 



follows : 



United States appropriation. Hatch Act $15, 000. 00 



United States appropriation. Adams Act lo, 000. (X) 



State appropriation 52, 500. 00 



Balance from previous year. State appropriation 2, 475. 00 



Miscellaneous 20, 103. 84 



Total 103, 078. 84 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



The work of the Colorado station has considerably broadened in 

 recent years as the result of State appropriations, and more definite 

 effort is being made to meet the needs of the different parts of the 

 State. As the administrative difficulties encountered are being over- 

 come the institution is placed to better advantage with reference to 

 the extension of its influence in general and the progress of its in- 

 vestigational work in particular. 



CONNECTICUT. 



The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 'New Haven. 

 E. H. Jenkins, Ph. D., Director. 



During the past year the Connecticut station suffered a serious loss 

 in the destruction of one of its laboratory buildings. The fireproof 

 addition to one of the laboratories (PI. I, fig. 1), as mentioned in last 

 year's report, was under construction, and when the walls of this 

 addition were nearly completed the laboratory to wiiich it was an 

 addition was destroyed by fire, January 10, 1910, but very little dam- 

 age was done to the new structure. The most serious items of loss 

 were the very valuable chemical library and animals which had been 

 under experiment for five months. The burned building has been 

 rebuilt at a cost of about $17,500 and made uniform with the new one, 

 and also fireproof in its construction. As a result the station has now 

 a large, well-equipped, thoroughly fireproof structure for the safe 

 storage of its valuable collections. 



The State appropriations for the biennial period, not including 

 the amount allowed for the laboratory building, were $2,000 for main- 

 tenance, $5,000 for food inspection, $G,000 for the department of 

 entomology, and $2,000 for the State forester's office. 



The investigations under the Adams fund, as in previous years, 

 included the project on vegetable proteids, w^hich is in part supported 

 by a grant of $5,000 from the Carnegie Institution, and the work in 

 plant breeding. The work on the vegetable proteids was seriously 



