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$3,000 subscribed by the citizens of Pomona. At a iate meeting of the regents jf the 

 University of California, Mr. Ricluxrd Gird was appointed " Patron " of the South Cal- 

 fornia Station. It is hoped that the buiklings will be ready for occupation by Novem- 

 ber 1, and that the station will be fully stocked for the coming season's work. 



Oilers of land and of funds for buildings were also received from the citizens of 

 Riverside ; but the fact that the coast climate was entirely unrepresented in the work 

 of the station prevented the location of the new substation at this place, where it 

 would have been essentially representative only of citrus culture in the interior. 



Papers on the following subjects were prepared by officers of the station for the 

 recent meeting of agricultural chemists at ludianapolis: On further experiments re- 

 garding the reaction between alkali suli>hates, calcic carbonate and free carbonic 

 acid, by M. E. Jaffa, Ph. B. ; and on the nitrogen contents of California wines, by L. 

 Paparelli and G. E. Colby, Ph. B. 



Iowa Station. — The committee of the college board of trustees on the experiment 

 station, as now constituted, consists of Dr. S. P. Yeomans, Charles City ; Hon. Eugene 

 Secor, Forest City; and CM. Dunbar, Maquoketa. For experiments in feeding and 

 dairying, with special reference to the comparative value of different breeds, the sta- 

 tion has i^urchased a young bull and two heifers of each of the following breeds: 

 Holstein, Gallow^ay, Cruikshank, Shorthorn, Polled Angus, Jersey, and Red Poll. 



Louisiana Stations. — T. S. Adams has been appointed commissioner of agricul- 

 ture, vice T. J. Bird. In accordance with a recent act of the State legislature the 

 stati(ms are required to analyze Paris green offered for sale as an insecticide, under 

 conditions prescribed by the State Bureau of Agriculture. By the same act a license 

 tax of half a cent per pound is laid on all Paris green sold. The net proceeds of this 

 tax are to be applied to the support of the experiment stations. A small, open-pan 

 sugar-house has been erected at the North Louisiana Station, and additions have been 

 made to the equipment of all three stations. The results of iuvestigations on the 

 "screw worm" will soon be published. Rains seriously aifected the results of this 

 season's experiments in making sugar from sorghum at the Sugar Experiment Station. 

 The yield of cane was large, 15 to 20 tons per acre, but the sugar content was low, 

 the highest being 10 per cent of sucrose and the average only 5 to 6 per cent. At a 

 recent monthly meeting of the farmers' association at the North Louisiana Station 

 there were present over one thousand farmers from twenty-five parishes. 



New Mexico Station. — The corner stone of the college and station building was 

 laid September 9 and it is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy by 

 December. 



New York State Station. — Philip N. Nicholas, of Geneva, and Adrian Tuttle, of 

 Watkins, have been appointed members of the board of control. W. A. Armstrong 

 is no longer on the board. 



New York Cornell Station. — J. M. Stedman, B. S., assistant in entomology, has 

 resigned to accept a position in the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammal- 

 ogy of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Pennsylvania Station. — B. F. Robb, of Pittsburg, has been elected a member of 

 the governing board, vice John Hamilton. 



Tennessee Station. — The station staff as recently organized includes F. L. Scrib- 

 ner, B. S., director and botanist ; C. W. Dabney, jr.. Ph. D., chemist ; H. E. Summers, 

 B. S., consulting entomologist; R. J. Cummings, farm foreman; and W. N. Price, 

 assistant farm foreman. Other othcers are yet to be selected. 



Virginia Station. — Under the present organization of the station the board of 

 control consists of C. E. Vawter, Crozet; J. E. Massey, Richmond; and J. T. Brown, 

 Brierfield. The station council includes L. L. Lomax, president of the college, 

 chairman ; W. D. Saunders, director of the station; W. B. Alwood, and AValker Bow- 

 man, Ph. D. T. L. Watson, assistant in chemistry, and W. W. Hurt, clerk and ste-, 

 pographer, have been added to the etatioa staff. 



