10 Direcror’s REPORT OF THE 
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Since 1896 there have been erected the Biological and Dairy 
building, the Director’s house, 1 large forcing-house and 2 poultry 
houses. The barns of the institution have been. built entirely new 
because of the destruction of the old ones by fire; the building 
occupied by the offices and library has been entirely remodeled 
inside, and the head house at the forcing-house has been enlarged. . 
In its capacity for carrying on various lines of scientific inquiry, 
the building equipment is more than doubled, involving a large 
addition to the cost of maintenance, one item of which is the 
addition of three to the force of janitors and caretakers. 
It can not be accurately said that ten years ago the work of the 
institution was divided into departments, although the investi- 
gations then carried on fel], in a general way, under the heads 3 
of chemical and horticultural work. The Station has now six 
well-defined and fairly well-equipped departments, viz.: animal 
husbandry, bacteriology, botany, chemistry, entomology and hor- 
ticulture. There has also also been added to the staff an officer 
known as Editor and Librarian, the first of the kind in any 
Station in the country. In consequence of this enlargement of 
the Station staff and the definite division of the work into depart- 
ments, the investigations carried on have broadened in scope, and 
it is believed, increased in thoroughness, therefore in expensive- 
ness. This growth has in no sense been forced but has simply 
been a response, though an insufficient one, to'the demand made 
upon the Station. 
The list of names to which the Station publications are mailed 
has trebled since 1895, thus greatly adding to the printing bills. 
Such an enlargement of the salary list, material equipment and 
work of an institution ordinarily involves a corresponding in- 
crease of maintenance funds. As previously stated, this has 
not occurred. For the fiscal year 1895-6, the maintenance funds 
outside of the support of inspection work, amounted to $59,500 
and for 1905-6 the sum is $64,500, an increase of only $5,000. 
But since the $10,000 applied to the inspection of fertilizers was 
formerly appropriated by the State from the general treasury 
funds and is now secured from license fees imposed on brands of 
fertilizers, it is really costing the State $5,000 less annually 
to maintain the Station than it did ten years ago, notwithstand- — 
ing the large growth of the institution. These facts indicate that 
it is certainly true that your Board has persistently, and it would 
