PROGEESS OF THE STATIONS. 51 



Agricultural buildings, to be used by both the colleges and the 

 stations, were either appropriated for or comj^leted during the past 

 year in Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont, 

 and Virginia. The Iowa building is expected to cost when com- 

 pleted $275,000. The Cornell building is being constructed in parts, 

 with a State approj^riation of $300,000. A considerable number of 

 other buildings for special departments were also provided. Among 

 these are a horticultural hall in Kansas, a chemical building in 

 North Dakota costing $48,000, a dairy building in Mississippi, a 

 $40,000 building for the botanical department in Massachusetts, cat- 

 tle and hog barns and a farm mechanics building in Missouri, and 

 an insectary in Minnesota. 



The Florida Station w^as moved during the year to its new loca- 

 tion at Gainesville, and although this has involved some temporary 

 interruption of the station work, it is believed that its new plan of 

 Avork will eventually prove of greater benefit to the varied agricul- 

 tural interests of the State. In California a farm has been acquired 

 in the Sacramento Valle}^, which will be used by the college and sta- 

 tion jointly, adding quite materially to the facilities of the station. 

 The main building of the University of Idaho was destroyed in the 

 spring of 1906, and with it the offices, laboratories, collections, and 

 library of the station. A new agricultural building is in process of 

 erection, which will afford improved facilities for the station. 



The additions to the equipment of the stations in 1906 included 

 buildings valued at nearly $170,000, and amounted in the total to 

 approximately $347,000. 



SOME FEATURES OF STATION WORK. 



The breeding of plants for improvement in quality or yield, for 

 adaptation, resistance to disease and drought, and for various other 

 jjurposes continues to occupy much attention. The results of this 

 work have aroused popular interest in it, and it is looked to as a 

 means not only of raising the quality and yield, but of extending 

 farming in the drier regions and of adapting special crops to new 

 localities. 



The improvement of seed corn by selection and by greater attention 

 to general quality has resulted in great benefit in the corn-growing 

 regions, and out of it has grown a widespread interest in breeding 

 for some sj^ecial qualities. The work has spread to a great variety 

 of other crops and caused attention to be given to the kind of seed 

 used. 



The breeding work has also taken account of the use to be made of 

 the crop, its suitability, and its adaptability to the demands of the 

 market. This has led to studies of the milling and baking qualities 



