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area under glass is 6,635 sq. ft. There are 7 distinct houses, besides a runway 10 by 

 44 ft., which is used for cutting benches on either side of tlie walk. Two of the 

 houses have ground beds, similar to those found in the vegetable forcing structures 

 about Boston, and the remainder have raised benches. 



One house, 20 by 47^ ft., is used entirely as a greenhouse laboratory for instruc- 

 tion. This has a 3-ft. side bench built against the wall on either side, with a double 

 row of students' workbenches 3 ft. 9 in. wide in the center, extending the entire 

 length of the house and separated by a narrow passageway for the instructor. The 

 students' benches are separated from the wall benches bj' a walk 2h ft. wide. Each 

 student has a space 5 ft. in length, from the side of which next to the walk a space 

 1 ft. by 18 in. is removed to give standing room for the student, thus keeping the 

 walk behind him open. The wall bench behind each student is used for his i)otted 

 plants, stock for cuttings, etc. 



The greenhouses are connected with a potting house 20 by 30 ft., which has a base- 

 ment used as a boiler room, and a finished room in the second story for the gar- 

 dener. The main floor is provided with closets for tools, lockers for the students' 

 working suits, a l)ench foninaking design work, etc. The range has a double system 

 of heating, and each house is piped independently so that almost any range of tem- 

 perature can be had which is desired for experimentation. Heat is supplied from 

 the college heating plant, and there is a sectional steam boiler located in the base- 

 ment of the potting house. The latter can he used in the spring and fall and at such 

 other times as is desired. Each house has its own ventilating system and is lighted 

 by electricity on separate switches. 



Ohio University and Station. — The appropriation of §75,000 made by the legislature 

 for the College of Agriculture of the University was vetoed by the governor. The 

 following appropriations were made for the station for the current year: For expenses 

 of the board of control, §^800; publication of ])ulletins, $3,800; special work in ento- 

 mology, botany, chemistry, and horticulture, $8,000; substations for field experi- 

 ment, $7,000; general repairs, labor, and supplies, $7,500; special work in animal 

 industry, $2,500; library eciuipment and care, $250; general construction, $2,000; 

 purchase of test farm in southeastern Ohio, in part, $5,000; total, $36,850. 



The test farm, the purchase of which is authorized by the last item of the budget, 

 has been located in Meigs County, about 18 miles south of Athens. It contains 300 

 acres, and the purpose is to devote it to the study of such problems as especially 

 concern the agriculture of the hilly counties of- southern Ohio. It is expected that 

 animal husbandry, orchard culture, and forestry will receive sjjecial attention. J. M. 

 Van Hook, assistant jalant pathologist of the Cornell Station, has accepted a similar 

 position at this station. F. H. Ballon, of Newark, Ohio, has been appointed assistant 

 horticulturist to the station, in charge of the orchards. Frank A. Welton, a this 

 year's graduate of Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, has been appointed assistant 

 chemist to the station. J. L. Taggart, horticultural foreman, has resigned to take 

 charge of a commercial orchard near New York. 



A department of cooperative experiments has been organized in the station, to con- 

 tinue the cooperative work heretofore conducted by the Agricultural Student Union 

 of Ohio, and L. H. (roddard has been appointed experimentalist. It is expected that 

 the Student Union will maintain an organization holding an advisory relation to this 

 department of tlie station and to the extension work of the College of Agriculture of 

 the State University. 



Pennsylvania Station. — A. K. Risser has resigned the position (jf assistant in agri- 

 culture in the station to accept an appointment in the Government Indian School 

 at Lawrence, Kans. N. G. Miller, of the class of 1904, has been appointed as his 

 successor. 



Porto Kico Station. — F. 1). Gardner, who has been in charge of the station since its 

 organization, returned early in June and has assumed charge of the work in soil 



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