12 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



J. K. Shaw, B.Sc, has been engaged as assistant in the 

 department of horticulture, in place of C. S. Pomeroj, B.Sc, 

 who resigned to acce]3t a more responsible and lucrative posi- 

 tion. 



F. A. Johnson, B.Sc, has been engaged as assistant in ento- 

 mological work on cranberry insects, in place of H. J. Frank- 

 lin, Ph.D., who resigned to accept a more important ftosition 

 in another institution. 



Buildings. 



During the past year the shed referred to in my last annual 

 report for use in connection with the asparagus work at the 

 substation in Concord has been comj^leted, at a total cost of 

 $208. 



The hothouse designed for use in connection with the work 

 of the department of vegetable physiology and pathology has 

 been completed. This building is 70 by 28 feet in size. This 

 was not put up under contract, but under college management 

 by direct purchase of materials and emi^loyment of workmen. 

 The building has been paid for by the use of funds appro- 

 priated by the Legislature for the erection and equipment of 

 Clark Hall. The cost of the hothouse and of the passages 

 connecting it with the main building has been about $3,000. 

 This hothouse has been but recently completed. It will make 

 it possible for the department of vegetable physiology and 

 pathology once more to take up numerous lines of investiga- 

 tion which it has not been possible to prosecute during the 

 past year, and which were necessarily discontinued at the time 

 of the removal from the old quarters of the department to the 

 new, a little more than a year ago. 



Much-needed additional room in the chemical laboratory for 

 control and research work has been obtained by removing from 

 the feed and research laboratories the machinery and fixtures 

 used in grinding and preparing substances for analysis, for 

 testing Babcock glassware and for making the Babcock test. 

 This machinery and apparatus have been set up in a basement 

 room fitted for the purpose, and all these lines of work are 

 now carried on under conditions far more satisfactory than 

 formerly. The cost of the needed changes has been met from 

 current station funds. 



