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bills arrived in time to be included in the budget, 

 although the articles did not come till later. 



You would naturally think that when this first 

 appropriation was expended in appliances the rush 

 would be over; but the Congressional Act pro- 

 vided that an annual report must be made which 

 must contain not only an itemized account of ex- 

 penditures and receipts but also a report of the 

 progress of the work in hand. I turned, there- 

 fore, to material on hand which had not yet been 

 published in the bulletins previously mentioned. 

 This and some other research stuff that we had in 

 hand was prepared for publication and handed to 

 the President. I told him that I knew absolutely 

 nothing about matters of printing and publication 

 and he advised me to put the matter in the hands 

 of Mr. Church, one of the members of the pub- 

 lishing firm of Andrus & Church, in Ithaca, who 

 had good taste in such matters. I did so, giving 

 him no other directions than that the report must 

 be a first-class job all round. In the subsequent 

 bulletins these requirements have held good 

 through all the years and their general appear- 

 ance remains much the same as at the beginning. 

 Up to 1903, the date of my retirement, there had 

 been published by the Experiment Station fifteen 



