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North Louisiana Station, Jvine '23 and 24, 1890, over one thousand farmers were in 

 attendance. 



The station's experiments with sorghum comprise over one hundred varieties, in- 

 cluding many grown from pedigreed seed. The sugar experiments for this season 

 began August 1. 



W. Wipprecht, B. S. A., formerly of the Texas Station, has been appointed chemist 

 at the Sugar Experiment Station, Audubon Park, New Orleans. 



Massachusetts State Station.— Charles H. Jones, B. S., and Henry D. Haskins, 

 B. S., have been appointed assistants, vice E. R. Flint, B. S., and E. E. Kiiapp, B. S. 



Minnesota Station. — Experiments are being carried on in the northwestern, 

 southwestern, and southeastern parts of the State, at points widely remote from each 

 other, in which an attempt is being made to determine what fertilizers can best be 

 used to renew land exhausted by successive cropping with wheat, " after all the wheat 

 is gone out of the land." The station botanist is investigating a new and fatal dis- 

 ease which has attacked growing flax in the southern part of the State, with a view 

 to determining the nature and origin of the disease, and to discovering a cheap and 

 effective fungicide, together with a practical method for its application. It is esti- 

 mated that the station publications now reach 25,000 English-reading farmers in 

 Minnesota alone. 



Missouri Station. — B. Von Herlf resigned his position as assistant chemist of this 

 station July 1, 1890. During the current year this station has expended $5,000 in the 

 erection of feeding stables and sheep and hog sheds, to take the place of a station 

 barn destroyed by Are in May, 1889. 



New York State Station. — Dr. L. L. Van Slyke has been appointed chemist, vice 

 E. F. Ladd, whose present address is 14 East Thirty-fourth street. New York City. 



New York Cornell Station. — A forcing-house for the division of horticulture 

 has lately been completed. It is supplied with facilities for experiments on the effect 

 of electric light on plants, and investigations in this line have been begun. 



North Carolina Station. — F. E. Emery, of the New York State Station, has been 

 elected agriculturist to this station and will enter on his new duties in September. 

 J. R. Chamberlain, B. S., who has been acting agriculturist since his election to the 

 chair of agriculture, live stock, and dairying in the North Carolina College of Agri- 

 Culture and Mechanic Arts, will hereafter devote his whole attention to the work of 

 instruction. As an outcome of the co-operative field experiments with fertilizers car- 

 ried on by the station several years in different parts of the State, it has been de- 

 cided to confine such experiments to a comparatively small number of central locali- 

 ties, possibly one in each Congressional district,with a view to the gradual establish- 

 ment of distinct stations. This station has recently begun to issue " Press Bulletins," 

 giving, invery brief and popular form, results of experiments at the stations and such 

 statements regarding subjects more or less intimately allied to the work of the t-tation 

 as are thought likely to be of general interest. The station has already secured the 

 co-operation of a large number of papers in the State for the publication of material 

 contained in these bulletins. Among the subjects treated in recent Press Bulletins are 

 the following : Does it pay to fatten sheep with cotton-seed hulls and meal ? Ferti- 

 lizers for corn ; grapes at the station ; the weather service ; cow-jieas for wheat. 



North Dakota Station. — C. B. Waldron has been appointed botanist of this 

 station,' and will also, for the present, do some work in entomology. The station has 

 begun to collect and classify the grasses, noxious weeds, and injurious insects of the 

 State. Adequate apparatus for work in botany has been provided. The board of 

 control has authorized the appointment of a chemist for this station with special 

 reference to the classification and analysis of the soils of the State. Experiments with 

 methods of cultivation and varieties of wheat are in progress and investigations on 

 rust, which threatens serious injury to the crops of the present season, are being made. 

 The farmers and press of the State are reported to be manifesting great interest in 

 the new station and college. , 



