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into an administration building. North Dakota has erected two barns 

 at a cost of $18,000 to replace the barn burned last year. Pennsylva- 

 nia has finally completed and equipped its calorimeter building. Ore- 

 gon has a new $3,000 station building; Storrs Agricultural College, a 

 new dairy building; Alabama, a veterinary dissecting building and a 

 new chemical laboratory; Colorado, aninsectary; Washington, a green- 

 house and insectary; Virginia, a new main barn and a piggery and 

 abattoir; the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, a new station 

 building; Kentucky, a barn for curing tobacco; New Jersey, a new 

 barn, and Idaho a piggery. 



State appropriations for substations have been made as follows: In 

 Kansas, $3,000 a year for the establishment and maintenance of a sub- 

 station at the Fort Hays Reservation; in Michigan, $2,000 for the 

 South Haven Fruit substation and $3,000 for the Chatham substation; 

 in Minnesota, $11,200 for improvements at the substations, which are 

 maintained by State appropriation; in Texas, an increase of the appro- 

 priation for the Beeville substation from $5,000 to $7,500 for two }ears 

 and $5,000 per annum for a new substation; in Oregon, $5,000 a year 

 for two years for a substation in eastern Oregon; in Utah, $6,000 for 

 two years to establish a fruit experiment station in southern Utah; in 

 Washington, $11,200 for the substation at Puyallup, including $2,000 

 for improvements. Alabama has continued State aid to the Canebrake 

 Station $2,500, and to the Tuskegee Station $1,500, and Missouri has 

 appropriated $26,525 for buildings and maintenance at the new State 

 Fruit Experiment Station. 



Provision for the printing of station publications in whole or in 

 part is made in the following States: California, Connecticut (both 

 stations), Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne- 

 sota, Missouri (both stations), New Hampshire, New Jerse}^, New 

 York (both stations), North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode 

 Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. 

 . The importance of the work of the experiment stations as distinct 

 departments of the agricultural colleges is beginning to be recognized 

 by special appropriations by the State legislatures for the equipment 

 and investigations of the stations. A notable example of this was an 

 act of the recent legislature of Illinois which appropriated $46,000 for 

 the next two years to be expended by the station in that State as fol- 

 lows: Experiments with corn, $10,000; soil investigations, $10,000; 

 investigations in horticulture, $10,000; experiments in stock feeding, 

 $8,000; dairy experiments, $5,000; and sugar-beet experiments, 

 $3,000. The Connecticut legislature has appropriated $2,000 per year 

 for two years to be expended by the New Haven Station in mak- 

 ing forestry investigations, $3,000 per year for two years for nurs- 

 ery inspection, and $1,800 a year for investigations at the Storrs 

 Station on the food and nutrition of man. Florida has given $5,000 



