No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 421 



The question has been raised, and therefore may occur to you, as 

 to the character of the expenditures in the Dean's and Director's of- 

 fice. The following table gives an analysis of the budget for this 

 office. 



Salaries, $8,220 



Expenses of Station farm, 3,500 



Publications, 3,500 



Stationery, postage, etc., 1,000 



Library, 1,000 



Traveling, 500 



Repairs, 1,500 



Janitor services 1,000 



Contingent, ...'. 1,000 



Emergency fund, 4,800 



$26,020 



Of this amount, |15,160 will come from Federal funds; |10,860 is 

 asked of the State Legislature. 



The Experiment Station will receive from the Federal Government 

 $24,000 for the fiscal year 1907-8, and $20,000 for the fiscal year 

 1908-9, and its estimated annual income from fertilizers is $13,000. 

 Deducting these items from the budget stated above, there will b»' 

 required for maintenance about $100,000 for the fiscal year 1907-8, 

 and $125,000 for the fiscal year 1908-9. 



The Executive Committee has estimated that $100,000 will be re- 

 quired to complete and equip the new agricultural building and com- 

 plete the equipment of the dairy building. A new building is re- 

 quired for forestry, horticulture, zoology, and entomology at a cost of 

 $100,000. Some additional buildings are required for poultry hus- 

 Ijandry, and two residences are required, one for the Dean and Di- 

 rector and one for the poultryman. The Executive Committee are 

 therefore asking $125,000 for new buildings. If all these require- 

 ments of the School of Agriculture and the Experiment Station are 

 to be provided for by the State Legislature, the appropriation must 

 be as follows: 



Maintenance for 1907-8, $100,000 



Maintenance for 1908-9, 125,000 



Completion and equipment for Agricultural building, . . 100,000 

 Buildings for Forestry, Horticulture, Zoology, Ento- 

 mology, Poultry, and two residences, 125,000 



Total, $450,000 



The question now arises as to what would happen to the Penn- 

 sylvania State College if the State Legislature should increase the 

 appropriation for that institution. 



