xii MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1908. 



Joseph 1\ Merrill who did special work in the Experiment 

 Station during the fall of 1907 and winter of 1908 was regularly 

 appointed assistant chemist July I, 1908. 



Miss Maynie R . Curtis was appointed assistant in biology and 

 began her work August 1, 1908. 



Miss Alice W. Averill was appointed laboratory assistant in 

 entomology and began her work in August, 1908. 



buildings. 



A small greenhouse 15x30, for the use of the Pathologists 

 and Entomologist was erected on the south of the Experiment 

 Station building. It is divided into three rooms with arrange- 

 ments for automatically controlling the temperature. A small 

 potting shed is connected. 



The frame poultry house, known as No. 1, was abandoned 

 and torn down in the summer of 1908. At the east end of poul- 

 try house No. 2, a house was erected for a poultry hospital and 

 special physiological investigations with poultry. 



