EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



Colorado Station.— A uew botanical and horticultural laboratory has just been 

 completed. Experiments with grasses at the grass station on the plains above the 

 level of irrigation are reported to be progressing favorably. 



Delaware Station. — Thirteen co-operative field experiments with corn, sweet 

 potatoes, strawberries, and peaches, and in rotation of crops, are in progress in dif- 

 ferent parts of Delaware under direction of the station in connection with the 

 State Grange. Variety tests of small fruits are also being conducted by twelve fruit- 

 growers in co-operation with the station. Experiments with potatoes treated with 

 the Bordeaux mixture indicate that the plant assimilates copper in amounts too small 

 to injure health, and that a relatively large part of the amount assimilated is stored 

 in the skin of the tubers. Charles W. Roberts, of West Chester, Pa., has been 

 elected a trustee of the college and station. 



Flopida College and Station. — H. F. A. Kleinschmidt, B. S., has resigned the 

 professorship of manual training and mechanical engineering. J. C. Neal, Ph. D., 

 and J. J. Earle, B. A., will hereafter devote themselves exclusively to station work. 



Indiana Station, — H. E. Stockbridge, Ph. D., has resigned the directorship, and 

 the vice director, C. S. Plumb, B. S., is at present in charge of the station. 



Kentucky Station. — Hart Gibson has succeeded P. P. Johnston as a member of the 

 board of control. The director and other members of the station staff are frequently 

 called upon to address farmers' institutes in different parts of the State. 



Maryland Station. — W. H. Bishop has resigned the position of horticulturist of 

 this station, to take effect September 1, 1890. He will assume the management of the 

 agricultural department of Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss. 



Massachcsetts Hatch Station. — Experiments are being made regarding the in- 

 fluence of electricity upon the growth of plants, by passing a current through the 

 soil. The State Board of Agriculture have so approved the work of the station as 

 to publish extra editions of its bulletins on Tuberculosis and on the Gipsy Moth. 

 Every Grange in the State has sent the station a list of its members, desiring that the 

 station bulletins be sent them. 



Michigan Station. — Horace C. Spencer, of Flint, Mich., has been appointed a 

 member of the State Board of Agriculture (which is the governing board of the sta- 

 tion), vice W. B. McCreery, resigned. R. C. Kedzie, M. A., is making a careful rec- 

 ord of temperatures with the thermometer exposed to the full light of the sun, with 

 reference to the effect of temperature upon plant growth. The facilities for the in- 

 vestigation of animal diseases have lately been enlarged by fitting up rooms in the 

 upper story of the veterinary laboratory. . A feeding experiment with tea steers of 

 different breeds is nearly completed. E. Davenport, M. S., agriculturist of the sta- 

 tion, has begun extensive field experiments. 



Mississippi Station. — Three branch stations are to be established, one in the prai- 

 rie region in Northern Mississippi, another in the pine woods region, both for a study 

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