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recommendations. 



The most urgent necessity of the department continues to be floor 

 space. With a greatly increased registration in all courses and with 

 many new investigations to be conducted, we have no additional rooms for 

 the additional work. All the activities of the department during the 

 winter season, when our field laboratory men are here, have had to be 

 confined to a floor space approximately 45 by 60 feet and half a story 

 high, with partitions only head-high and not reaching the ceiling. With 

 two or three typewriters constantly in operation, with fifty students doing 

 laboratory work, photographing, making culture media, etc., all in 

 practically the same room at the same time, it is fair to say that the best 

 work cannot be done. Greenhouse space so badly needed has not been 

 available. This latter need, however, will be provided fbr in a measure 

 this coming year. Next to the need for room is the necessity for a larger 

 maintenance fund for the department. The funds available for the 

 past year were wholly inadequate not only for the work demanded of us 

 but even for the work which had to be carried along, so that by July 

 first, even with the greatest economy, we were without funds. The 

 slight increase which has been found available for the coming year will 

 not by any means meet the increased demands. A substantial increase 

 in the general maintenance fund of the department is imperative if we 

 are to meet the legitimate demands made upon us by the growers of the 

 State. The opportunity for increased service to the State is before us ; 

 we are ready and anxious to do the work. Only the lack of necessary 

 means with which to do the work hinders. 



H. H. WHETZEL, 

 Professor of Plant Pathology. 



