x STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
scientific, research work. But a limited amount of the federal 
funds can be devoted to the maintenance of buildings and for 
repairs. It is expected by the federal government that the 
state will furnish the necessary buildings in which the exper- 
iment work is to be conducted. At the present time our state 
appropriation is but $1,800 per year. This is but little more 
than sufficient to provide for the equipment of laboratories, for 
heat, light, and water supply, and for meeting the various 
other expenses which cannot properly be charged to the federal 
funds. Were the state appropriation larger it would enable 
the experiment station to conduct codperative experiments in 
various sections of the state, and these experiments would 
serve to popularize the work of the station and to advance the 
- cause of agricultural education throughout the state. We have 
frequent calls from the farmers of the state for information — 
and for assistance in some line of work, and to properly re- 
spond to these calls oftentimes requires a personal visit from 
some member of the station staff. This expense should all be 
borne by the state, leaving our federal funds entirely for orig-— 
inal research work. 
CHANGES IN THE STAFF. 
During the past year Mr. E. R. Bennett, assistant horticul- 
turist, resigned to accept a similar position at the Colorado 
Experiment Station. This position was filled by the appoint- 
ment of Mr. C. D. Jarvis, a graduate of Ontario Agricultural | 
College, Guelph, Ont., and post-graduate student in horticul- 
ture at the Cornell University. Dr. B. B. Turner, chemist of 
the station, was granted a two years’ leave of absence, and the 
position of chemist was filled by the appointment of Mr. H. 
D. Edmond, a graduate of this college, and for the past year 
assistant in chemistry in both college and station. Dr. H. W. 
Conn, who for many years has been supervisor of work in 
dairy bacteriology, severed his connection with the station. 
COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
The cheese investigations in connection with the Dairy 
Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, have progressed favorably during the 
