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cience building. The maximum amount which can be expended 

 for this purpose from the Hatch fund, in any one year, is $750, 

 but it would require at least $2000 to replace the present old and 

 •shabby barn with a suitable structure, properly fence the farm and 

 put up a windmill and pump house. 



Besides these needed improvements, proper residence accom- 

 modations on the farm would greatly facilitate the work of those 

 •members of the staff at Phoenix. Compelled to reside at a dis- 

 tance of three miles from the scene of operations, much time is 

 necessarily lost in going back and forth, and less supervision of 

 critical woik is possible. 



The date palm orchard, also, needs a small building for stor- 

 age of tools, and for shelter and fumigation purposes. 



To economists it may be stated that there is nothing unusual 

 :in State appropriations to the experiment stations. For the year 

 •ending June 30, 1899, twenty-three experiment stations in the Uni- 

 ted States received State appropriations ranging from $390.49 to 

 $68,000 in amount; and of the remaining twenty-nine stations,' 

 twenty-six had from other sources, from $20.02, to $i9^3 2 3-5 6 

 each. Among the whole number of forty-six stations receiving the 

 full Hatch appropriation, all but seven had a larger income from 

 State and other sources than had the Arizona Station. In other 

 words, the Arizona Staiion receives less financial attention from 

 State and other directions than thirty-eight other stations. 



In view of the peculiar need of a new and rapidly growing 

 country for strong and efficient experiment station service, this 

 seems hardly just to the interests involved. During the year the 

 Station has done everything possible to help itself to needed im- 

 provements. From the proceeds of farm produce and laboratory 

 fees, the ground was purchased for the new and important w r ork 

 in animal husbandry, and the strong and efficient co-operation of 

 the U. S. D. A. has been secured in various special lines of w r ork. 

 But it rests with the public, especially the farming public, to take 

 those final legislative measures which shall enable their Experi- 

 ment Station to possess creditable and necessary working appli- 

 ances and rank highly in usefulness and progressiveness among 

 the stations of the country. 



