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2. Buildings needed. 



Tillson Farm. — Dwelling house for man in local charge, 

 $4,000; barn and outbuildings, $6,000. 



The necessity for buildings on this farm has been referred to 

 in discussing the urgency of early purchase. Experimental 

 work can be carried on only where we have large storage room, 

 where different materials and the product of different plots can 

 be kept separate, and where we have facilities for weighing, 

 sampling, etc. A barn of large size and specially equipped, and 

 a number of outbuildings, will clearly be necessary; and a 

 house for the man in local charge is also, if not an absolute 

 necessity, at least highl}' desirable, as the farm is at such a dis- 

 tance from the present center that the needed oversight, which 

 must be close and constant in experimental work, will be 

 exceedingly difficult without. 



Poidtry Department. — Building additions in present location, 

 S3,500; buildings required in case a farm for poultry experi- 

 mental work is purchased, $10,000. 



It will be readily understood that experimental work is im- 

 possible without building accommodations specially equipped 

 and far larger than are required in commercial work. Com- 

 parisons are impossible without such accommodations. Poultry 

 interests a very large proportion of our population, and in the 

 aggregate our poultry industry is of very great importance. 

 That we do not now probably produce more than about one- 

 fifth of the poultry products used in the State emphasizes in a 

 striking way the fact that everything possible should be done 

 to encourage the growth of the industry. Professor Graham 

 estimates that the total value of the poultry products of 

 the State is now between $7-,000,000 and $8,000,000 annually; 

 and the amount consumed in the neighborhood of $45,000,000 

 worth. 



Cranberry Substation. — An addition to the building of the 

 cranberry substation for extension of the work; estimated cost, 

 $500. 



Summary. 

 Tillson farm : — 



House, $4,000 



Barn and outbuildings, 6,000 



