EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



The Post-Office Department has recently ruled that " iu sending out bulletins from 

 an agricultural experiment station it is periuissible to inclose postal-cards to enable 

 corres})ondents of the station to acknowledge the receipt of its publications and to 

 request their continuous transmission." 



Arkansas Station.— G. L. Teller, B. S., formerly of the Michigan Station, has 

 been appointed chemist of this station, vice C. B. Collingwood, B. S., who has gone 

 to the Arizona Station. Special features of the present work are feeding experiments 

 with cotton-seed products, and investigations on Texas fever and insecticides. 



Connecticut State Station. — Cotton-seed meal containing only 35.19 per cent of 

 albuminoids (the average should be at least 42^ per cent), and adulterated with 

 rice meal or refuse, has recently been found on sale in this State. 



Connecticut Storks Station. — C. B. Lane has been appointed assistant in farm 

 experiments, vice E. A. Bailey. Hon. J. W. Alsop, M. D., of Middletown, has re- 

 cently given the station $500 to enable it to prosecute on a more liberal scale its in- 

 vestigations on the acijuisition of the free nitrogen of the air by plants. A greenhouse 

 is being erected for use in these researches. The feeding experiments with milch 

 cows begun in the spring of 1890 will be continued, a special subject of study dur- 

 ing the coming winter being the variations iu the quality and quantity of milk with- 

 out and with change of ration. 



Kansas Station. — The bulletins of this station for the ensuing year are designed 

 to be complete records of the experiments reported in them, and will not be reprinted 

 in the annual report of the station. They will be paged consecutively and a com- 

 plete index of their contents will be published at the close of the year. 



N. S. Mayo, D. V. S., formerly assistant in veterinary science at the Michigan 

 Station, has been appointed instructor in physiology and veterinary science at the 

 Kansas Agricultural College, and will have charge of experiments in animal physi- 

 ology and veterinary science. 



Louisiana Stations. — William C. Stubbs, jr., has been appointed farm manager 

 at the Sugar Experiment Station, vice A. M. Gardner, B. S. 



Maryland College and Station. — T. L. Bruuk, B. S., late of the Texas College 

 and Station, has been appointed horticulturist of this station and professor of botany 

 and horticulture of the college. The station has made exhibits at five county fairs in 

 Maryland this season. The experiments with tomatoes recorded in the annual report 

 for 18-!9, have been duplicated and somewhat extended this year. 



Massachusetts State Station. — The principal lines of investigation during the 

 past season have been (1) tield experiments on the effect of different forms of nitro- 

 gen on oats, and of different forms of phosjihoric acid on potatoes, and comparative 

 tests of different grasses and grass mixtures; (2) feeding experiments with reference 

 to the fattening qualities of different breeds of pigs, and the comparative merits of 

 old and new-process linseed meals as feeding stuffs for milch cows. Among the ex- 

 periments now iu progress are those relating to the economical i)roduction of beef 

 and mutton, the effects of gluten and cotten-seed meals as feeding stuffs for milch 

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