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and furnishing rooms for museum library, $600 ; for outfit of chemical laboratory, 

 |1,000; for farm engine and repairs ou barn, $1,200; for supplies for entoujological 

 division, $"200 ; for expense of board of control, $200 ; total, $3,200. June 11 the State 

 Horticultural Society held its summer meeting at the station. 



Pennsylvania Station. — At the last session of the legislature an appropriation of 

 $7,000 was made to the station for a dairy-house and feeding barn, and for improve- 

 ments in the present barn. This work is now under way. A dairy-house will be 

 erected in accordance with x^'ans furnished by a cold storage company, and so ar- 

 ranged as to admit of controlling the temperature of the work-rooms. The other im- 

 provements include a barn for use in the more elaborate feeding experiments, a horse 

 barn, carriage house, hog house, and a covered barn-yard. As hitherto, the atten- 

 tion of the station is largely turned toward problems connected with the economic 

 feeding of domestic animals. In this connection a grass garden has just been started 

 upon the plan adopted a few years since by the Connecticut State Station. 



Rhode Island School and Station.— In March, 1890, the legislature appropriated 

 $50,000 for the erection of school buildings, and made provision for an annual appro- 

 priation of $10,000 for the support of the school. The buildings, which are located 

 on the station farm, are now well under way, and it is expected that the school will 

 be open for students in September. The station laboratory, erected with the aid of 

 an appropriation of $14,000 from the State, is now ready for occupancy. An orchard 

 has been planted with many varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, and cher- 

 ries. Grapes and small fruits have also been set out. Numerous improvements are 

 being made in the buildings and the farm. Co-operative field tests with fertilizers 

 for corn have been undertaken in ditferent parts of the State under the supervision 

 of the station. James H. Eldredge, M. D., of East Greenwich, has been appointed a 

 member of the board of managers, vice C. A. Shippee, whose term had expired. 



Texas Station.— F. A. GuUey, M. S., has resigned the directorship and is succeeded 

 by G. W. Curtis, M. S. A., agriculturist of the station. 



Utah College and Station.— The board of trustees of the college and station 

 as now organized iuoludes William S. McCornick, Salt Lake City, president; Will- 

 iam N. Bro.vu, Provo; Christian F. Olseu, Hyrum ; Robert W. Cross, Ogden ; Mel- 

 vin B. Sowles, Salt Lake City ; John E. Hills, Provo ; James T. Hammond, Logan, 

 John T. Caine, jr., is secretary of the board, and H. E. Hatch, treasurer. The faculty 

 are: Jeremiah W. Sanborn, B. S., president, professor of agriculture; Evert S. 

 Richman, M. A. S., professor of horticulture and botany ;" William P. Cutter, B. S., 

 professor of chemistry ; Abbie L. Marlatt, B. S., professor of domestic economy ; J. 

 M. Sholl, professor of mechanical engineering ; Alonzo A. Mills, B. S., farm superin- 

 tendent. The station stall" is organized as follows: J. W. Sanborn, B. S., director; 

 E. S. Richm.an, M. A. S., horticulturist and entomologist; W. P. Cutter, B. S., 

 chemist ; A. A. Mills, superintendent of experiment work ; J. R. Walker, clerk and 

 stenographer; H. E. Hatch, treasurer. A farm-house, a laboratory, a barn, and two 

 cottages are being built at a cost of over $14,000, the legislature of the Territory 

 having aided the station with liberal appropriations for buildings, live stock, etc. 

 Eighty-five acres of ground are devoted to experimental purposes. 



Virginia Station. — W. B. Preston has resigned the directorship and President 

 L. L. Lomax, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, is acting director. T. L. 

 Watson has been elected assistant in chemistry, vice B. F. Finney, and W. W. Hurt 

 has been appointed clerk and stenographer. The station has been divided into the 

 following departments: agriculture, botany (including horticulture) and entomol- 

 ogy, chemistry, and veterinary science. The board of visitors of the college has 

 committed the management of the station to three of its members as a board of con- 

 trol. The internal aliairs of the station will be managed by a council, consisting of 

 the heads of the several departments, with the president of the college as chairman. 



