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new agricultural building, to cost $275,000. The building will be 

 completed from the new millage tax. An appropriation of $5,000 

 annuall}^ was made for good roads instruction and investigation, 

 $3,500 annually for an engineering experiment station, and $2,400 

 for library. The legislature also appropriated $11,000 for the pur- 

 chase of 135 acres of additional land, 80 acres of wliich will be used 

 for grazing purposes and experimental work in animal husbandry, 

 and 55 acres for orchard instruction and experimental work in forestry. 

 An appropriation of $5,000 was made for buildings on the dairy farm 

 and an equal amount for the poultry plant; and $15,000 was provided 

 for agricultural extension work, for the conduct of which an extension 

 department has been established. 



The State legislature of Virginia appropriated $86,000 for the col- 

 lege of agriculture and the experiment station for the biennial period. 

 Of this amount $60,000 is to complete and equip the agricultural 

 building, $5,000 a year for the experiment station, $6,000 a year for 

 the crop pest commission, and $2,000 a year for furthering the cattle 

 tick work. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College, in addition to its regular 

 permanent appropriations, received $75,300, apportioned as follows: 

 For erecting, heating, and equipping a building for the botanical 

 department, $45,000 ; for a new barn and a new wagon house, $21,300 ; 

 for a dairy building to be used simply for the handling of the farm 

 product, $3,000; for a new piggery, $1,000; for repairs to buildings, 

 $3,000; and for the further maintenance of the college, $2,000. The 

 new buildings provided for, except that for the botanical department, 

 are to replace those lost by fire. For the new barn an unexpended bal- 

 ance of insurance money amounting to $12,000 is also available. . The 

 permanent appropriation of the State to the college now amounts to 

 about $57,000 annually. 



The New Jersey College of Agriculture has an appropriation of 

 $24,000 for the establishment of short courses in agriculture, and 

 $6,500 for the maintenance of the same. The college also received 

 $27,000 due on scholarships for 1902-1905, and $12,000 on scholar- 

 ships for the present year. 



The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts 

 has received a number of gifts, among which were $20,000 given 

 by Andrew Carnegie, and $10,000 b}" the Hamilton Smith estate, of 

 Durham, for a new librar}^. The Durham Library Association will 

 turn over to the college library its collection of books, valued at 

 $10,000, and also the income from its invested funds of $1 1,000 for the 

 purchase of books. In exchange for this the college will extend the 

 privileges of the consolidated library to all citizens of the town. The 

 town of Durham will make a small appropriation annually toward 

 the support of the library. Mrs. Hamilton Smith, of Durham, has 



