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1. Junior Naturalist Monthly. For the year 1905-6, nine num- 

 bers have been issued (monthly for nine months), together with six 

 supplements on gardens. 



2. Four quarterly issues of the Home Nature-study Course, with 

 seventeen supplements during the year. 



3. Bulletins of the Farmers' Reading-Course (monthly from 

 November to March) : 



No. 26 — Tasteful Farm Buildings. 



27 — • Tasteful Farm Yards. 



28 — The Plan of the Farmhouse. 



29 — Water Supplies for Farm Residences. 



30 — Barns and Outbuildings. 



4. Bulletins of the Farmers' Wives' Reading-Course (monthly 

 from November to March) : 



No. 16 — Programs and Evenings with Farmers' Wives' Reading Clubs. 

 17 — Flour and Bread. 

 18-^ Dust as Related to Food. 



19 — The Selection of Food. 



20 — Canning and Preserving. 



5. Bulletins of the Experiment Station, recording the publishable 

 data of the demonstrations and tests, as follows to May i, from 

 the beginning of the fiscal year, October i, 1905 (other bulletins are 

 prepared) : 



No. 235 — Co-operative Spraying Experiments. 

 236 — The Blight Canker of Apple Trees. 

 2y] — Alfalfa. 



238 — Buckwheat. 



239 — Some Diseases of Beans. 



IIL Research. 



In March, 18S7, Pi'esident Cleveland approved the Hatch Act, es- 

 tablishing an agricultural experiment station in every State and ap- 

 propriating $15,000 for the purpose. Nine-tenths of this fund, by 

 the terms of the State law, comes to Cornell University for the estab- 

 lishing and maintaining of an experiment station. O.ie-tenth is re- 

 ceived by the New York State Experiment Station at Geneva, to 

 enable that Station to secure the franking privilege on its publica- 

 tions. On March 16, 1906, President Roosevelt approved the Adains 

 ilill, which, at the expiration of five years, will duplicate the ainount 

 received by each State for its experiment stat'on. By concurrent 

 resolution, the prcs' nt legislature distributes this new fund on the 

 same basis as the first fund. 



