SWEET SILAGE.--During the year the station has produced sweet silage from clover, vetches and corn. The process is the same as has heretofore been in use up to the point where the silo is filled. Then we insert from the boiler a steam pipe at the base of the silo and inject steam until the germs of ferment are destroyed, then close the silo. This silage is canned and remains sweet indefinitely thus furnishing green, sweet food during the dry season and all winter. BENTON KILLIN, JOHN D. OLWELL,

Station Committee.

REPORT OF THE BUILDING AND IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

Corvallis, Oregon, July 16, 1902.

To the Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College of Oregon:

We your building and improvement committee beg leave to report as follows:

Since our last report in January, when we had let the contract for the new building and had not selected a site for it, and the matter of selecting a site having been referred back to us by you, the following work has been done:

The plans for the new building were left at the college office for the inspection of the faculty for two weeks and suggestions and alterations made as was thought necessary.

Your committee after securing the presence of the architect and contractor, and after full discussion with the president of the college and the director of the station, carefully considered the grounds at our disposal in all their bearings, took measurements, and finally located the new agricultural hall on the college campus, east of the armory and south of the main college building.

The committee met on the 15th of April for the purpose of considering the plans and advertising bids to heat the new building and ordered the architect to prepare plans and advertise for bids, which was done and on May 2d we met again to open the bids, when the specifications and bid of George W. Kendall were accepted and the contract awarded to him for $3,925.00.

Of this we had of the old $20,000 approximately $11,982.

We have this year

Which will leave over on next year

$38,300.00

3,925.00

2,200.00

$44,425.00

This has been provided for with the contractors so that their money is not due until after January 10th of next year.

So far we have had few extras, practically none, but as it is possible there may be, then these figures will be increased by that much.

The new building has interfered very materially with the drill and athletic grounds, and your committee have consented to the leasing of the Hogg land adjoining the campus for athletic games; the athletic society, so far, have borne the expense, but some permanent arrangement must be made for this purpose for two reasons -first, to provide a proper drill and athletic ground and second, to allow of the permanent improvement and beautifying of college grounds. J. T. APPERSON.

JNO. D. DALY, Sec'y.

J. K. WEATHERFORD.

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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS.

Hon. George E. Chamberlain, Governor of the State of Oregon.

SIR: Pursuant to an Act of the Legislative Assembly of 1885, as President of the Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College, I have the honor to report to you the condition of the College, financially and otherwise.

In 1866 the people of the State of Oregon, through Legislative Act, accepted of the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved on the 2nd day of July, 1862, granting public lands to the several states and territories which should provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and the acts amendatory thereof, and by said act permanently located said college at the city of Corvallis. That thereafter the Legislature of the State of Oregon passed general laws for the government of said college and provided for the creation of a Board of Regents to be denominated the Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College of the State of Oregon, who are, by said act, constituted a corporation for that purpose with full power to make contracts and to enact from time to time such bylaws and regulations as in their discretion shall seem necessary and proper for the benefit, development and successful management of the said College. And in said act it is, among other things, provided that the President of the Board shall, once a year, make a written report to the Governor setting forth the condition of the College, financially and otherwise.

For a detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements of the several funds received for the benefit of the College and Experimental Station, I call your attention to the itemized reports of the Secretary and Treasurer appended hereto and made a part of this report.