C2 HKPOHT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ties should take special piuns to explain ;ui<l reiterate to the public 

 that the station is the source of new knowledge, while the extension 

 department is an agency for disseminating information. By main- 

 taining this distinction the position of the stations as research insti- 

 tutions will be made stronger and more satisfactory than at present, 

 or than it can ever be while they are performing such miscellaneous 

 functions as they now do in most cases. 



The extension work increases the demand for experimental work, 

 which is now growing apace. Every reasonable provision should be 

 made to jjush the experimental work to meet the demand for new 

 information which is arising on every hand. The station and college 

 men have more than enough to do in experimenting and in regular 

 teaching. The extension work should be done without injury to 

 either function, and to meet this provision of funds is necessary 

 wherewith to equip and man the extension departments and meet 

 their exi:)enses for printing, traveling, and other legitimate })urposes. 

 The Office has maintained that the federal funds granted to the agri- 

 cultural experiment stations can not legally or wisely be used for the 

 maintenance of extension enterprises, and is guarding against such 

 use. 



INCREASE IN FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT. 



Notable additions to the building and equipment of the stations 

 have been made in the past year. The additions to equipment aggre- 

 gate $744,501.93, and have been provided quite largely from the 

 federal funds to meet the need of the more exact experiments and 

 researches. 



New' buildings to be used exclusively for the stations have been 

 provided for and completed in Indiana, Porto Rico, and Texas. The 

 high character of these buildings shows the extent to which the needs 

 of the stations are recognized. 



A station building is now under way in Florida, supplied by an 

 appropriation of $40,000 for that purpose, and in Hawaii the federal 

 station has been allotted funds from the territorial income tax to 

 erect a new office building. This will provide offices for five or six 

 members of the staff, rooms for the library, and storage for the bulle- 

 tins. The general assembly of Connecticut at its last session appro- 

 priated $30,000 for the building and equipment of a fireproof addi- 

 tion to the station laboratory. This laboratory has since been de- 

 stroyed by fire, but will be rebuilt with the insurance. 



In Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, and New Mexico large, well-appointed 

 agricultural buildings have been completed, which will be used by 

 both the college and the station officers and will provide improved 

 facilities for the latter. An appropriation has been made of $10,000 

 for furnishing the new Missouri building, and an equal amount for 



