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EPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 453 



KEPAIRS. 



The legislature of 1882 granted to the college $4,000 for 

 repairs. This money has been expended and the bills de- 

 posited with the treasurer of the State. The farm buildings 

 have been repaired and painted ; the laboratory repaired 

 and painted, and provided with cases for proper protection 

 of apparatus and specimens. The botanic museum has 

 been painted outside and in. The lecture-room repaired 

 and provided with cases for protection of specimens and in- 

 struments. The Durfee plant-house and propagating houses 

 have been thoroughly repaired and painted. The heat and 

 moisture in those houses had caused more serious damage 

 than at first appeared. The farm-house now occupied by the 

 market gardener has been shingled and otherwise repaired. 

 The barns connected with this house have been remod- 

 elled and repaired for the use of the horticultural depart- 

 ment, and the professor's house, to be occupied by Prof. 

 Miles, has been repaired, painted and papered. All of these 

 buildings from long neglect of repairs from want of means 

 had become in many places unsightly and hardly fit for oc- 

 cupation. They are now essentially in good order, though 

 much more might have been done to most of them with great 

 profit, had the- appropriation allowed. As is generally the 

 case, the work proved more formidable than it appeared 

 before it was begun. The carpenter in charge gave entire 

 satisfaction, and we believe every dollar of the money has 

 been judiciously expended. It would require at least 

 $1,000 to complete the repairs upon the buildings, including 

 the painting of the roofs which would be economy in the 

 end. 



It was supposed by the trustees that the Cowles buildings 

 would be taken and repaired by the board of control of the 

 experiment station. No estimate was therefore made for 

 their repairs. If these buildings are not taken by the experi- 

 ment station, they can be made of great service to the col- 

 lege for the assistant professor of agriculture. It will 

 require $2,000 to put them in proper order for college use. 



