10 Director’s Report oF THD 
Mr. Patten was a graduate from the Chemical Course of the 
University of Maine in 1897, and for three years was Assistant 
Chemist in the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Mr. Parrott graduated from the Kansas State University in 
1897, and until his appointment to this staff was Assistant Ento- 
mologist at the Kansas Agricultural College. 
Two members of the staff are now away on leave of absence, 
Mr. Edwin B. Hart and Mr. A. D. Cook. The former is study- 
ing in Europe and the latter at Cornell University. 
BUILDINGS AND THE GENERAL CONDITION OF THE STATION PROPERTY. 
The much needed appropriation for the erection of a Director’s 
house was granted by the Legislature of 1900. Contracts for 
completing this building within the appropriation have been let 
and its construction is well under way. 
The completion of the plan for the improvement which you 
adopted, requires that the building now occupied by offices and 
the living rooms of the Director’s family shall be reconstructed 
internally so as to furnish convenient facilities for the entire 
administrative work of the Station and the library. It is to be 
hoped that means for doing this will be provided by the Legis- 
lature of 1901. ‘ 
It may be said that in general the property of the Station is in 
excellent condition. The chemical laboratory which has been 
occupied nearly ten years without repairs will soon need more 
or less attention, and a partial reconstruction of the interior 
arrangement of the cattle barn should be accomplished, 
FINANCIAL CONDITION. 
The work of the Station has so developed during the last five - 
years that it requires careful planning to bring the expenses of 
the institution within its present income, an income for which 
no increase has ‘been asked of the State during the past six years, 
notwithstanding a considerable enlargement of our staff and, 
activities. As a matter of fact, the annual appropriations for 
maintenance which are raised by taxing the citizens of the State 
are $10,000 less than they were previous to 1900, because the fer- 
