8 Director's Report of the 



The contract for the erection of the building was awarded to 

 Mr. A. B. Morrison, of Geneva, N. Y., on very satisfactory terms, 

 and its construction has proceeded with expedition so that the 

 walls and roof are practically completed. It is hoped that the 

 building may be available for our use by midsummer. 



The following is a summary of the facilities that this building 

 will afford, a somewhat detailed description of which will appear 

 in a subsequent report: 



1. Dairy Department. This includes a milk-receiving room, 

 pasteurizing room, cheese-making room, butter-making room, 

 cold-storage room, six cheese-curing rooms and dairyman's office. 



The first four rooms are wainscoted in glazed brick with vitri- 

 fied tile floors and are to be equipped with the very best appa- 

 ratus for investigation work. 



The cheese-curing rooms are to exhibit some unique features 

 in the way of control of temperature and moisture. 



2. Bacteriological Department. This includes a laboratory, 

 incubator room, culture room, general work room and office. 

 The temperature of the incubator and culture rooms will be under 

 automatic control, and their use will be shared with the Station 

 botanist. 



These rooms will be supplied with compressed air, steam at 

 high pressure, hot aud cold water, fuel and lighting gas, and with 

 the most modern apparatus for bacteriological investigations. 



3. Botanical Department. The rooms in this department will 

 be a laboratory office and museum, with a joint use of the incu- 

 bator and culture rooms. The equipment of compressed air, 

 steam^, water and gas will be the same as in the bacteriological 

 department, and the equii>ment of apparatus will be no less 

 efficient. 



4. Horticultural Department. The space for this department 

 will include the horticulturist's laboratory, horticulturist's office, 

 assistant horticulturists' office, and two large museum rooms. 

 In many respects these rooms will be equipped similarly to those 

 of the other departments mentioned. 



6. Entomological Department. This will contain an office large 

 enough to affoid laboratory facilities and a museum room. 



