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tention to another, — the provision of funds for work in the 

 interest of our market gardeners. 



The considerations which lead me to the conclusion that pro- 

 vision for all these needs should be made at as early a day as 

 possible must of course be fully stated and supported before the 

 committees of the Legislature. Some of the more important 

 only, therefore, wiU be here stated, and that in the briefest 

 possible form. 



Additional Land. — New scientific discoveries are constantly 

 broadening our horizon. Every research undertaken usually 

 opens up new vistas and suggests new lines of inquiry. These 

 cannot be undertaken within the limits of the area at present 

 available for experimental use. 



The attitude of the public toward the experiment station 

 changes constantly in the direction of looking to it for informa- 

 tion upon a constantly increasing number of questions, — ques- 

 tions which cannot be answered in the light of present knowledge 

 and whose solution cannot be undertaken without additional 

 land. 



The poultry department of the experiment station finds itself 

 confined to an area which renders satisfactory prosecution of 

 inquiries already in progress quite impossible on account of the 

 extreme difficulty — not to say impossibility — of maintaining 

 a satisfactory degree of health and vigor in the stock without 

 more land upon which the growing birds can range freely. 



The considerations stated make it apparent that as the months 

 and years have passed we must have felt and we do now most 

 emphatically feel the need of more land ; but not only has there 

 been no increase in the area available for our work, there has 

 been encroachment upon the limited area available made neces- 

 sary by the growth of the institution. During the past year 

 one line of experiments has been perforce entirely given up, 

 while another has been much reduced in value by the loss of a 

 portion of the plots involved. In each case this interference 

 with our work has been made necessary by the location of new 

 buildings. 



In a few of the most urgent cases temporary provision for our 

 needs has been made by leasing tracts of land. The station now 



