800 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



ment station whii-h has been maintained l)v the Hawaiian sugar plant- 

 ers, and attention will be given to other Held crops and the develop- 

 ment of animal industry and horticulture. Jared G. Smith, recently 

 in charge of the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction of this 

 Department, has been placed in charge of the Hawaii station, and will 

 take up the work there al)out the middle of April. Fifty thousand 

 dollars was appropriated to continue the irrigation investigations, and 

 $20,000 for nutrition investigations, the latter being an increase of 

 $2,500. 



The Division of Statistics receives $156,160, the same as last year, 

 the Division of Entomology $36,200, and the Division of Biological 

 Survey $32,800. The fund for publications is increased b}- $50,000 

 for farmers' bulletins and a small amount for distribution, making the 

 total for the Division of Publications $198,020 aside from the general 

 printing fund, $110,000. Other appropriations are as follows: Seeds 

 $250,000, exclusive of the $20,000 mentioned for seed and plant intro- 

 duction, an increase of $100,000; librar}-, $16,000; public-road inqui- 

 ries, $20,000, an increase of $6,000; investigating the production of 

 domestic sugar, $5,000; Arlington farm, $10,000; office of the Secre- 

 tary, $71,670; Division of Accounts, $18,900; Museum, $2,260, and 

 contingent expenses, $37,000. The grand total, including' the regular 

 appropriations for the experiment stations, is $1,582,1:20, an increase 

 of $558,920 over last year. 



An important item of the appropriation act is the authorization of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture to submit plans and recommendations for 

 a fireproof agricultural building, to be erected on the grounds of the 

 Department, and appropriating $5,000 for the preparation of such 

 plans. The Department long since outgrew its original accommoda- 

 tions, and for 3'ears has been badh' cramped for room. The present 

 main l)uilding has been condemned as unsafe, and from the nature of 

 its construction the risk of fire has always to be met. Besides erecting 

 a number of small buildings, which are mere temporary makeshifts, it 

 has been necessary to rent several residences in the neighborhood and 

 adapt them to laboratory and office purposes. Laboratory buildings 

 for the Division of Chemistry and the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 have been specially erected by private parties and rented to the Depart- 

 ment. The amount now paid for rental for these buildings, together 

 with the additional expense required for watchmen, aggregates about 

 $10,000 annuall3^ The position to which the Department has now 

 attained, the demands of its work, and the safety of its liljrary, records, 

 and collections, make a modern agricultural building a practical neces- 

 sity if not an imperative need. 



