28 [ ASSEMBLY 
Rules for the Tool-room. 
Each tool must have its definite place. 
eon tool must be thoroughly cleaned before being put back into 
place. 
Each tool must be in its place at the close of work. 
All injury to tools must be at once reported to the director. 
The janitor will have supervision of the tool-room, and will report 
every case of neglect or carelessness at once to the director. 
bisas assistant will be responsible for these rules being carried into 
eifect. 
Rules for the Work-room. 
No person other than the officers to use the room without permission. 
No tool to be removed from the room without permission being first 
obtained from the director or his assistants. 
Every tool, after use, to be returned to its proper place. 
The room will be cleaned up each night by the janitor, but those 
using the room will remove all unusual rubbish. 
The Station has been the recipient of a number of presents from 
those who have taken an interest in its welfare and its doings. 
Among the implements and tools received were : | 
April 15. One Wiard D. Plow, from Thomas Baxter, Oaks Corners, 
IN teeYA 
May.2. One box of Smith’s Seed Corn Preservers, from Mahlon F. 
Smith, Monticello, Ind. These are wire spirals for inserting in the 
butt end of corn ears for hanging and stringing the same. 
May 18. One North-western Corn Planter, from Irving P. King, 
Orleans, Ontario county, N. Y. , 
May 20. One No. 14 and one No. 12 Plow, from the Remington 
Agricultural Co., Ilion, N. Y. 
August 8. Four wooden forks for pitching barley and other straw, 
from Alba Kendal, Atley, N. Y. 
November 11. One Robbins Improved Cattle Tie, from H. M. Rob- 
bins, Newington, Conn. 
We have received plants as follows : 
April 26. Nineteen plants of Amelanchier Canadensis, variety Ob- 
longifolio, from Benjamin G. Smith, Cambridge, Mass. 
April 26. Two Dana grape-vines, two Francis B. Hayes grape-vines 
and fifty cross-bred Asparagus roots, from John B. Moore, Concord, 
Mass. 
May 17%. Fifty Hervey Davis strawberry plants, from John B. Moore, 
Concord, Mass. 
May 24. One Vergennes grape-vine, from J. 8. Woodward, Lock- 
port, N. Y. 
June 5. A lot of Cauliflower plants from John Fletcher, Geneva, 
N.Y 
June 20. Fifty Egg Plants, from Robert J. Swan, Geneva, N. Y. 
