TENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Control of the New York ‘State Agti- 
cultural Experiment Station. 
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
' Since our last report your committee have held monthly meet- 
ings at the Station, often with other members of the board being 
present during our deliberations, and we have to report the 
following work as having been accomplished. 
The new building for the chemical laboratory has been com- 
pleted so far as called for under the contract with John Moore, — 
Syracuse, N. Y., from plans prepared by E. A. Ellsworth, Holyoke, 
Mass. Such a laboratory building has been needed since the ‘ 
Station was established, but it was rendered imperatively neces- 
- sary, in order to carry forward the work of fertilizer analysis, 
which was by law placed under the direction of the Station. 
When fully completed this building will give ample accommo- 
dation, in its laboratories, for the chemical work of the Station, as 
also affording in the future, when the increasing demands of 
agriculture shall render it ‘necessary to employ certain other 
specialists, convenient laboratories and rooms for their accommo- 
dation. At the present they are to be occupied for such of the 
assistants in the laboratory and other members of the staff as are 
unable to secure comfortable quarters convenient to the Station. 
The entire building is warmed by the steam-heating apparatus 
manufactured by Dunning, of Geneva, and the results thus far are 
_ entirely satisfactory. 
An abundant supply of water has been obtained by the exten- 
sion of the mains of the water supply from the village of Geneva. 
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