Report of the Director. 
Friends of agricultural education will note with pleasure the 
passage by Congress of the ‘‘Adams Act’’ increasing the ap- 
propriation of the federal government to agricultural exper- 
iment stations. This act provides that for the year ending 
June 30, 1906, there shall be appropriated to each state five 
thousand dollars ($5,000) and that this appropriation be in- 
creased each year by two thousand dollars ($2,000) until the 
amount finally appropriated to each state shall be fifteen thou- 
sand dollars ($15,000) in addition to the appropriation already 
made to each state under what is known as the ‘‘ Hatch Act”’’ 
of 1887. Owing to the fact that there are two experiment sta- 
tions in Connecticut, the amount derived by this station from the 
federal government has been but one-half of the annual appro- 
priation to this state. The receipts of the station, then, for 
the past year have been the regular Hatch fund of $7,500, the 
state appropriation of $1,800, and the Adams fund of $2,500. 
This increase in our appropriation will be especially appreciated 
by those who are familiar with the work of the station, as it 
will efiable us to equip the various departments more com- 
pletely and to pay a larger portion of the salary of the men 
engaged in both college and station work. MHeretofore the 
salaries have been largely paid from the college funds, even 
though the men engaged devoted a considerable part of their 
time to experiment station work. ‘The matter of salaries has 
now been adjusted until it is probable that the men receive 
from the station all the salary which should properly be 
charged to the station funds. 
MORE STATE AID NEEDED. 
By special provision of the Adams act no portion of the fund 
derived from that source can be used for printing or for attend- 
ing farmers’ institutes, or for disseminating agricultural infor- 
mation; but the fund must be entirely devoted to original, 
