
yi REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 
The filling and grading about the new laboratory has been 
completed so that the earth will have sufficiently settled during 
the winter to enable the grounds to be properly leveled and 
sodded in the spring. The sidewalk in front of the Station build- 
ing has been continued to the railway cut and the roadway filled 
in to correspond with the entire front of the Station property. A 
vitrified tile drain has been laid with gradual fall from the 
laboratory through the orchard to Castle Creek. 
Some needed repairs and modifications have been made in the 
eattle barns and poultry houses, and two new stalls for bulls and 
three box stalls for cattle have been added to the bull barn. | 
A new house for carrying forward experiments in breeding with 
poultry has been completed, since the other poultry sheds were 
all needed in the several feeding experiments which are being 
conducted. 
The entire line of fences upon Castle Creek and Pre- -emption 
| i has ‘been rebuilt and painted, and a permanent trellis been 
built in the experimental vineyard. 
The graveling of the roads of the farm:has been continued ag 
opportunity has offered, and certain of the drains on the farm 
have been repaired. 
A block of one-half an acre of several kinds of small 
nursery stock, cherries, plums, quinces, pears, apples and 
peaches, has been set out upon the experimental plats for the 
purpose of -facilitating the work of Mr. Fairchild in his 
investigations of the various diseases which affect such 
stock, and this work has been from the first appreciated by 
the nurserymen who have extended to the Station all the needed 
aid in placing their own blocks of nursery stock at the disposal of 
Mr. Fairchild, and in making liberal contributions of such stock 
as was needed for his permanent block upon the Station grounds. 
The upper room of the Dairy House has been fitted up for the 
manufacture of cheese, and the services of Messrs. Smith and Hall 
of the Dairy Commission were granted freely to supervise the 
manufacture of cheese, each step of which from the milk to the 
finished product and extending through the entire period of 
ripening has been under close and constant chemical supervision. 
The results promise to throw much light upon this important 
branch of agricultural industry. | 
