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The State experiment station furnishes no exception in 

 this direction. For over two years the work has been car- 

 ried on within the means furnished by the State, without 

 incurring serious responsibility from a financial standpoint. 

 The most rigid economy only has enabled the managers to 

 meet, to some extent, the emergency of the case. This, 

 even, has not been possible without serious detriment to the 

 successful working of the station, and thus, ultimately, the 

 best interests of the farming community. The requirements 

 for carrying out the present system of management has of 

 late reached a point where more means are indispensable in 

 the interest of success. A short description of present con- 

 ditions cannot fail to support my previous statement. The 

 stalls for feeding are in some instances in an unfinished con- 

 dition, and in the majority of cases only finished to serve 

 temporary purposes. There are no means to secure animals 

 most desirable for experiment, beyond a choice from the 

 limited stock of the college. 



The fields rented from the college are only properly treated 

 as far as the experimental plats are concerned ; the remain- 

 ing larger portion of the area, consisting of exhausted 

 grass land, had to be left in that undesirable condition, for 

 want of means to render it more productive. Arrangements 

 for producing steam, for carrying on experiments with the 

 products of the dairy, and for keeping ice, are wanting. 

 The same is the case with reference to suitable rooms for 

 experiments to study the specific action of various forms of 

 plant food under well defined conditions, for hot-beds and 

 sheds. Many of the farm tools have still to be borrowed of 

 the college, nor has the station thus far been able to compen- 

 sate the college for the use of house, barn* and fields. 



The chemical work called for has lonor outgrow^n the re- 

 sources of the present laboratory. EflScient chemical investi- 

 gation needs better and more extensive rooms, and a larger 

 and more selected supply of apparatus. Above all, more 

 privacy is desirable for important chemical and other scien- 

 tific work, than a part of a much frequented college building, 

 constructed for a difierent purpose, can furnish. A new 

 building, designed with a view to meet the present and still 



