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wants a building built for and adapted to its purposes ; just 

 as a manufacturer wants such a building. The rooms which 

 we have occupied in the Sheffield Scientific School happen to 

 make a very good chemical laboratory and offices. There aie 

 inconveniences, but the building has done very well. We 

 probably could not find in the city of New Haven, or in any 

 city in the State, rooms which we could rent at a reasonable 

 rate which would be anywhere near so well adapted for that 

 purpose. I have been looking about to see what I could find. 

 We, can get plenty of rooms, but we should have to spend 

 about half of our time in going up and down stairs, and we 

 housekeepers know that is exhaustive of strength, and preju- 

 dicial to the best results. We should be unable to carry on 

 our chemical work if we had to go into a city house, which 

 otherwise would give us the accommodations we want. We 

 want, then, in the first place, a building made to suit us, 

 adapted to this special work. We do not need any very ex- 

 pensive structure. A plain brick building, as I have said in 

 my last report, having the capacity of a good-sized dwelling- 

 house, would answer our purposes admirably, bfct it is neces- 

 sary that it should be planned for the work, and built accord- 

 ingly. 



Now, with five or ten thousand dollars, we can put up a 

 building of that kind ; but if we are going to do anything 

 beyond working analyses of fertilizers and milk, and work of 

 that class, which can be done in a laboratory, if we v.ant to 

 do anything which connects itself more immediately with 

 vegetable and animal production, we want land ; not a large 

 amount, but we want a place where we can put out some 

 seeds and watch carefully the growth of the plants. We 

 want some land with a good exposure, such as we cannot get 

 usually in a city lot, on account of trees and near buildings. 

 An acre of land would do very well, two acres would do bet- 

 ter, but twenty acres would be too much, unless we have more 

 money to use upon it than we are likely to get. We want 

 also upon that place a plant house, built especillay for this 

 kind of work, having certain characteristics in common with 

 the ordinary green house or propagating house, but otherwise 



