New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 11 
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY. 
A fire, the origin of which is not known, occurred at the New 
York Agricultural xperiment Station on May 7, 1902, and de- 
stroyed several buildings — a cattle barn, horse barn and carriage 
house, a barn for storage of machinery and other materials, and 
two poultry houses. AJ] farm machinery and some other prop- 
erty was also burned. This loss rendered necessary the erection 
of new buildings and incidentally demonstrated the present de- 
fenseless condition of the institution against such disasters in 
the future. 
The sums received from insurance on the property burned were | 
as follows: 
Bea rrmeneme ire ree AS SINE ME uD, PTO BIOS et $10,500 00 
RIEL ALN coco s og sn elec dvs ee tet eh ek uM 438 50 
een IP 1. PAE IBA, POON) TL EO DIE, 425 00 
Pee ey ers 100) A) AINOTeO Of)? GT Bo 1,500 00 
ee er te ne re ee cau tues ive $12,863 50 
A ruling of the Comptroller allowed the immediate use of this 
money for replacing, in so far as possible, the buildings and other 
property. 
NEW BUILDINGS AND OTHER NEEDS. 
New buildings.—A new cattle barn of the most approved con- 
struction, and superior to the old one in almost every particular, 
is nearing completion. The cost of this barn, fully equipped, 
together with the expense of grading and of providing temporary 
sheiter for the cattle and horses, will absorb all of that part of 
the insurance money available for construction purposes. The 
other buildings necessarv for the purposes of the Station are a 
combination carriage house and horse barn, a storage building 
for machinery and grain and new poultry houses, all of which 
must be built, if built at all, by the use of funds specially provided 
by the Legislature. The probable cost of the proposed structures, 
based upon estimates by the State Architect for ie aU edad ar 
ones, is stated later. 
Fire protection.—A main of the water system of the city of 
Geneva reaches the Station but supplies no pressure for fire pro- 
