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expenditures above a certain minimum — possibly the present appropriation of 

 $10,000 — be allowed only in so far as income is produced to match the increase. 

 This plan, if allowed, will preserve the system of a fixed budget with responsibility 

 to State authorities for expenditures, and at the same time introduce the principle 

 of a revolving fund. 



Service Activities of the Station and Institution. 

 In addition to the formal research service, which represents the primary function 

 of the Experiment Station, and the miscellaneous items of chemical and biological 

 control which are administered by the Station as a matter of convenience and 

 tradition rather than of logical organization, there is a mass of border-line work which 

 for lack of a better term has been called "service." This includes participation in 

 spray ser\dce for orchardists with reference to the time of applying sprays for control 

 of insect and disease; frost warnings issued from the Cranberry Station; diagnosis 

 of poultry diseases, plant diseases and soil troubles; miscellaneous analj^tical work 

 on products sent in for examination; supplying legume inoculants; chemical and 

 bacteriological analj'sis of water and bacteriological examination of milk; par- 

 ticipation on a small scale in potato seed certification and supplying neutral special- 

 ists for orchard certification; and other similar services. In as far as is possible 

 tliis work is done on a fee basis, it being expected that the fee will be sufficiently 

 large to meet actual costs. It is the hope of the station, furthermore, to discontinue 

 this service as rapidly as cooperative or commercial organizations develop so as to 

 make the service unnecessary. At the present time, however, the fact of this 

 service is a rather serious drain on research funds, and in at least one department 

 has been carried on to such an extent as almost to inhibit successful prosecution 

 of fundamental research. In the opinion of the writer this work should have a 

 formally recognized status in the College, and should attempt to correlate in one 

 office all of such work regardless of where or under what division it may be done. 



