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a heating plant. The sum of $10,000 has also been provided for a 

 veterinary hospital at the Missouri Station. In Massachusetts an 

 appropriation of $80,000 was made for an entomological building, 

 to be used jointly by the college and station. This building is well 

 under way, and promises to be one of the finest buildings yet provided 

 by any of the colleges for a sj^ecial department of work. A new 

 $40,000 building for civil and irrigation engineering, to be used by the 

 college and station jointly, was nearly completed in Colorado. The 

 legislature of Delaware appropriated $10,000 for new buildings on 

 the farm. In Montana $10,000 was used for constructing a sheep and 

 steer barn, an addition to the poultry plant, and sheds for young 

 stock. The Kentucky Station has purchased a farm costing $7,000 

 out of the fees from the fertilizer and feeding stuffs control, and has 

 provided a now piggery with numerous feeding Jots. Many other 

 small buildings have been provided at other stations. 



A large majority of the States now make special appropriations 

 for the nmintenance of the stations or for the prosecution of special 

 features of investigation. Among the new appropriations or those 

 under which the stations worked during the year, the following may 

 be cited as showing the increasing liberality of the States. These 

 amounts are in addition to those given for buildings, some of which 

 are mentioned above : 



The territorial legislature of Arizona appropriated $4,500 for the 

 ensuing two years for the date orchards at Tempe and Yuma, and 

 $3,000 for dry-farming investigations. The territorial legislature of 

 Hawaii has provided $10,000 a year for the biennial period, to be 

 used in part to increase the scope of experiments in forage produc- 

 tion, crop rotation, soil studies, and plant diseases, and in part for 

 general maintenance, thus liberally supplementing the funds given 

 by the Federal Government. In Illinois the annual appropriation 

 for soil investigations was increased for the biennium from $25,000 

 to $G0.000. The increase is to be devoted in part to the extension of 

 the soil survey conducted by the station, which has already been 

 completed in twenty-eight counties of the State. In Indiana the 

 station is working under an appropriation of $75,000 per year, made 

 a year ago, which is an increase of $50,000 over the previous appro- 

 priation of $25,000; and in Kansas the present appropriation is 

 $30,000. The Montana Station was given $12,500 per year for main- 

 tenance, an increase of $5,000; $9,000 for dry-farming investigations; 

 and $8,000 for the substations, which is also an increase of $5,000 per 

 year. 



The Ohio Station received a j'ear ago an aggregate appropriation 

 of $118,990, an increase of $25,000, besides an unrestricted amount 

 for paper for publications. That station has for many years main- 

 tained its own plant for printing its bulletins and other publications. 



