or in part: Tallchief cottage, Hoyt cottage, Walrath, Gleaners, trades school, power-house, laundry, carriage house, some of the buildings of the West Group, the East Group kitchen, the farmer's house and the granary.

FARM AND GARDEN.

Your attention is invited to the Steward's report, which shows the value of the produce of these two departments. We commend the work of them both.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED

FOR 1902.

FOR DORMITORIES, $60,000.

When the two infirmaries now nearing completion are occupied, and when the buildings authorized by the item of $90,000 in this year's appropriation are also finished and occupied, the Colony will have accommodations for 1,050 patients.

A great many patients are so much improved or cured by two or three years' treatment here that they are able to go away and earn their own living. On the other hand, there are many beyond recovery when admitted and whose disease is of such a nature that they grow worse in spite of everything that can be done for them, and these do not leave the Colony, the result being a gradually increasing accumulation of the helpless class. The infirmaries now building are for this feeble class and for those temporarily insane, and were originally planned with the idea that they should be made larger. If this item of $60,000 is secured, it should go for that purpose, one-half of it to be spent on each building.

FOR FURNISHING, $15,000.

The money given us from year to year "for furnishing" has not been sufficient for equipping the houses of patients with the very necessary articles of furniture, while it has always seemed to us that it would be desirable to do more than that and make

the houses as home-like as possible for a people who must live in them so many years. The reasons given in former reports for the need for more money for furnishing apply with much force at this time.

FOR ROADS, WALKS AND GRADING, $12,500.

The great extent of the Colony estate-nearly 2,000 acres-the distance its buildings and groups of buildings are apart, the very bad condition of its roads and walks during the winter months, the constant damage to floors in the homes of patients from the freedom of patients running in and out, make it most desirable to construct three to four miles of substantial roadways and several hundred running feet of good walks as soon as possible.

FOR INSTALLING A REFRIGERATING PLANT IN COLDSTORAGE BUILDING, $3,000.

The cold-storage building, near the Pennsylvania Railroad station requires 600 to 700 tons of ice annually. We cut 1,700 tons of ice from Willow pond last winter, which was barely enough to last the year out. The pond is small and we were lucky last winter in being able to cut two crops of ice. The need for cold storage facilities is growing all the while. If the cold-storage building was fitted with a refrigerating plant we would then be able to cut from Willow pond all ice needed in the small refrig erators in individual houses. We must either put in a refriger ating plant or build another pond, and the former, we think, is the better plan of the two.

FOR BRIDGE OVER KISHAQUA CREEK ON D. AND M. HIGHWAY, AND FOR CHANGING ROAD TO SAME, $7,500.

The need for this bridge was spoken of in our seventh annual report. The necessity for it has grown greater since that time. As soon as possible we should divert the great amount of travel that now takes place over the public highway that passes

through the Colony estate, so as to leave the present bridge and road between the male and female departments for the sole use of the thousand inhabitants of the Colony now living, about equally divided, on the two sides of Kishaqua creek. From all standpoints it would be a benefit to the traveling public to build this bridge, and a measure of safety to the epileptic population of the Colony.

FOR A STEAM DISINFECTING PLANT FOR BEDDING, CLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS, $1,500.

We have no sort of a disinfecting plant at this time for clothing, bedding and household goods and we need one very much. We receive many patients from the tenement districts in the cities, where contagious diseases are always rife, and at any time we may stand in urgent need of an efficient disinfecting plant as a measure of checking the spread of disease. Such a plant is also needed for cleansing and purifying goods infected in other ways. The apparatus desired has a capacity for eight single bedsteads and mattresses at one time and operates under a steam pressure of 240 pounds. The disinfecting chamber alone, with appliances, will cost $1,250, the balance being required for steam connection with the power-house.

FOR ROOT CELLAR FOR GARDEN PRODUCE, $1,200.

We have one root cellar now, but it does not hold the potatoes alone raised on the place. We need another one, larger in size, in which to keep garden vegetables and fruits. Vegetables play an important part in our dietary, being especially valuable in the class of individuals the Colony cares for, and we need to preserve them as well as possible.

FOR ADDITIONAL KILN, SHEDS OVER MACHINERY AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS TO BRICKYARD, $800.

In our opinion the Colony will never have a better paying or more valuable industry than brickmaking. Epileptic labor is well suited to it. The deposits of pure clay on the premises

are practically without limit. An acre of clay one foot in depth will make one million bricks. We have more than one hundred acres of fine clay that might be used for brick. This wealth of raw material, the cheapness and abundance of labor and the certainty of a market always for the output of the plant, all combine to give this industry great value. Let us develop the plant, as I believe should be done, and we could not only make brick for our own use, but could supply other institutions, besides making other things that require clay of pure quality, such as drain tile, sewer pipe, etc. We can make brick for less than $2 a thousand, and we now sell them to contractors on Colony work at from $6 to $7 a thousand, or whatever the market price may be. The brickyard now clears from $2,500 to $3,000 annually. We ought to increase its capacity next year by building an additional kiln, which will cost about $550, and by building substantial sheds over all machinery.

FOR FARM STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS, $2,000. Additional cows are constantly needed to keep the milk supply up to our requirements. New tools, implements and machinery are needed on the farm and in the garden. The value of farm and garden produce as given in the Steward's report, which is a part of this report, would seem to justify an appropriation of this kind.

FOR ADDITIONAL FARM TEAMS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SAME, $2,000.

We have never had enough teams to do the combined work of the farm, garden and miscellaneous hauling. In summer we always have large amounts of grading to do, and will spend this year alone, out of special appropriations, from $1,500 to $1,800 for such work. Out of the expenditures of one season we could pay for several teams and their equipment and own the teams afterwards.

FOR LAUNDRY MACHINERY, INCLUDING ONE 20 H. P.

MOTOR, $1,500.

There is room now in the laundry for more machinery and we need it to do the additional work required by a constantly increasing population. Another washer, an extractor and a 20 H. P. electric motor will be installed if this item is secured.

FOR BALANCE TO ACCEPT LOWEST BID FOR CONSTRUC TION OF FOUR COTTAGES FOR EMPLOYEES AND FOR AN ADDITIONAL COTTAGE, FIVE IN ALL (IN ADDITION TO $4,000 APPROPRIATED BY CHAPTER 330, LAWS 1901), $3,950.

On July 6th last, bids were opened for four cottages for employees under the item of $4,000 in this year's appropriation. The lowest bid received exceeded the appropriation by $2,450, so all bids were rejected. The $4,000 will be available another year and an additional appropriation of $3,950 should be asked for, so that these four buildings, together with an additional cottage, five in all, the fifth to be a little larger in size, may be constructed.

FOR ISOLATION PAVILION FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, $3,000.

We stand in great need of a plain, substantial building of some kind in which to isolate communicable diseases, should. the necessity arise. At any time we may have diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever or measles, and we now have no place in which to care for such diseases. Our people all being free, and not confined to one or two buildings, and because of their free communication with each other, makes the danger of a general infection all the greater, and we should have means for promptly isolating infected cases. I would favor a wooden building for the purpose, at a cost of $200 to $300 a bed, with room for from twelve to fifteen persons.