12 Report of the President. 



Buildings Required Immediately by the College of Agriculture. 

 " Of the buildings included within the above ten-year forecast, the 

 following are needed immediately and provision should be made for their 

 early erection. 



Common to all buildings : A Central Heating Plant to 

 conserve the economy in first cost and operation for 

 all buildings. To be built progressively, as needed. 

 First section $50,000 



( 1 ) General Class Room and Laboratory Building with Audi- 



torium 1 13,000 



(2) Poultry Husbandry Laboratory 90,000 



(3) Plant Industry Building 245,000 



(4) Home Economics Building 154,000 



(5) Greenhouse Laboratories (extension) 20,000 



(6) Animal Husbandry Buildings ( in part) 129,000 



(7) Agricultural Chemistry Building 146,000 



(8) Horticulture Building 211,000 



$1,158,000 



It is recommended that early provision be made for the erection of 

 these buildings, and it is urged that the funds for the first four, and the 

 first section of the central heating plant, amounting to $652,000, be 

 appropriated by the present session of the Legislature, and that provision 

 for the other four be made within the following two years." 



A further request was made for an increase in the appropriations for 

 maintenance and for extension work from $185,000 (the amount appro- 

 priated for 1909-1910) to $250,000. 



In partial response to these requests, the regular appropriation, carried 

 in the appropriation bill, for the maintenance of the State College of 

 Agriculture was raised by action of the Legislature from $175,000 for 

 tlie year 1909-10 to $200,000 for the year 1910-11, and the supple- 

 mentary maintenance appropriations carried in the supply bill were in- 

 creased from $10,000 for 1909-10 to $12,000 for 1910-11. Furthermore, 

 the Legislature passed a bill, which received the approval of the Governor, 

 providing that for the beginning of the proposed development of the 

 College of Agriculture the Trustees of the University be authorized to 

 contract for the erection of the general class-room and laboratory build- 

 ing requested at a cost of $113,000, the building for the development of 

 poultry husbandry at a cost of $90,000, and the building for the depart- 



