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cultural School is established within 30 miles of Culbertson the ap- 

 propriation shall be available for experimental work only at such 

 school. 



The Board of Control of Ohio, acting conjointly with the boards 

 of county commissioners, has located county experiment farms in Bel- 

 mont, Pauldingj and Miami Counties, under the Wilber law of 1910. 

 The bonds voted for this purpose amounted to $20,000 each in Bel- 

 mont and Paulding Counties and $22,000 in Miami County. 



In 1911 acts were passed by the State Legislature of Oregon appro- 

 priating annually $4,000 for the support and maintenance of a sub- 

 station in Harney County for the investigation and demonstration of 

 dry, arid, and nonirrigated lands of the State, and also authorizing 

 the establishment of a branch station in southern Oregon, with an 

 annual appropriation of $5,000 for its support and maintenance. 



In South Dakota the legislature of 1911 instructed the regents of 

 education to locate a dry-farming substation on 160 acres of State 

 lands in Fall River County, and appropriated $1,000 for maintaining 

 this station in 1912. A law was also enacted allowing county com- 

 missioners to establish demonstration farms and to appropriate $300 

 annually for the expense of State supervision of each, and also pro- 

 viding that county poor farms may be conducted as demonstration 

 farms. Under this law private individuals may conduct demonstra- 

 tion farms under State supervision by agreeing to devote not less 

 than 40 acres for the purpose, to carry on the work 5 years, to use 

 only the best seed, and to sell the crops for seed purposes at a reason- 

 able price to the people of the vicinity. 



In Tennessee the farmers' convention of the State subscribed 

 $10,000 for a stock-judging pavilion to be erected at the substation at 

 Jackson, and a donation of $1,000 for the benefit of the same institu- 

 tion was made by a private party. 



The Texas Legislature of 1911 appropriated $6,000 for two years 

 for the purpose of establishing an experiment station to demonstrate 

 the possibilities of tobacco growing in the seventeenth congressional 

 district of the State. The work is to be cooperative with this de- 

 partment. 



In Utah another demonstration farm was established near Cedar 

 Fort station, in Cedar Valley. Two of the former demonstration 

 farms located on sagebrush land, having accomplished their pur- 

 pose of demonstrating the profitable handling of such lands under 

 drv-farminjr methods, have been discontinued. The new station es- 

 tablished in Cedar Valley encounters somewhat diilerent conditions 

 than those met with on the sagebrush areas. Another station has 

 been established near Ajax on " shad-scale " soil, of which the State 

 contains great areas. The demonstration work on the sagebrush 

 land has been largely instrumental in the taking up of these lands for 



