Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1910 Page: 352

                                
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valuation. This provides an income for the current year of about
$550,000. Appropriations were also made. aggregating $130,000 for
additional buildings and equipment at the university farm at Davis,
and $88,500 for its maintenance during the ensuing biennium; $20,000
for farmers' institutes; $15,000 for viticultural investigations; $12,000
for cereal investigations; and about $40,000 for the equipment and
maintenance of the Southern California Pathological Laboratory at
Whittier.
In Connecticut the total State appropriations for the agricultural
college during the biennium aggregated $112,101. Of this, $50,000
was for current expenses, $4,000 for the station, $18,000 for four new
cottages, $12,500 for a dining hall, $10,000 for the improvement of
the road from the college to the railroad station, $8,500 for the purchase
of an additional farm, $5,000 for the equipment of the horticultural
hall, and the remainder for miscellaneous improvements.
Georgia State College of Agriculture has an appropriation of
$125,000 for maintenance during the biennium. Of this sum, $10,000
is for extension teaching, which, with funds. available from other
sources, will supply about $14,000 a year for this purpose.
In Massachusetts the legislature of 1910 appropriated $142,000 for
maintenance and $115 625 for additions to equipment and other special
purposes for 1911. This is an increase in income of $37,500, of
which $30,000 is for general instruction and maintenance and $7,500
for short courses.
The appropriations by the Minnesota Legislature for the college
and school of agriculture included $50,000 for a girls' dormitory,
$30,000 for dairy structures and equipment, $10,000 for a poultry
department, $43,400 for minor studies and equipment, $82,000 for
maintenance and buildings at the Crookston School of Agriculture,
$11,500 for the Crookston substation, $14,000 for the Grand Rapids
substation, and $50,000 for extension work in agriculture during the
ensuing biennium.
The Legislature of New York in 1910 gave the college of agriculture
an increase of $25,000 for maintenance and of $2,000 for extension
work, together with $113,000 for a classroom and auditorium
building, $90,000 for a poultry building, and $154,000 for a homeeconomics
building. A significant feature of the legislation is the
practical acceptance by the legislature of a systematic plan of
development for the college as outlined by the board of trustees.
This plan looks toward the growth of the institution during the next
10 years, and if carried out will necessitate the expenditure of
nearly $2,000,000 for buildings and equipment.
In North Carolina the legislature gave the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, at Raleigh, an annual appropriation of $70,000
for maintenance and $18,000 annually for the ensuing biennium for