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cows, and hot-house experiuieuts with different forms of nitrogen on grains to sup- 

 plement field experiments in this line. An orchard of large fruits has been set out, in 

 which the effects of different fertilizers on fruits will be tested. 



Michigan Station.— In co-operation with the State Live Stock Sanitary Commis- 

 sion the station has begun experiments to learn whether actinomycosis in cattle is 

 contagious. Spurry has been introduced on the " Jack-pine plains " as a fertilizing 

 and forage crop with good promise of success. H. C. Spencer has retired from the 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



New York Cornell Station. — M. I. Slingerlaud has been appointed assistant 

 entomologist, vice J. M. Stedmau, B. S. The first of several small buildings for the 

 use of the veterinary division is now being erected for use in experiments relating to 

 the causes and prevention of contagious diseases among domestic animals. It is to 

 be built of hollow vitrified brick with cement floors, and will be so arranged that 

 the different stalls can be easily and securely isolated. Extensive alterations in the 

 university barn have been begun to secure increased facilities for feeding experi- 

 ments, especially with pigs. 



Oregon Station. — An exhibit of one hundred varieties of grain and four hundred 

 and twenty-five varieties of potatoes was made by the station at the State Fair and 

 at the Northwest Exposition at Portland, Oregon. 



Rhode Island School and Station. — The erection of a veterinary hospital has 

 been begnn on plans furnished by F. E. Rice, M. D., M. R. C. V. S., the recently ap- 

 pointed veterinarian of the school and station. The building is to be of wood, 76 by 

 40 feet, and three stories high. It will contain oftioes, drug and apparatus room, lec- 

 ture room, large stable with eight box stalls and an operating floor. 



The governing board of this statijn is at present organized as follows: Melville 

 Bull, B. A., treasurer, C. H. Coggeshall, C. O. Flagg, B. S., president and director, J. 

 H. Eldredge, M. D., and C.J. Greene, secretary. The station made exhibit's at the 

 State and Washington County Fairs of varieties of grains, grasses, clovers, potatoes, 

 and other vegetables, and of work in apiculture. 



South Carolina Station. — The station was transferred November 1 to Pendleton, 

 S. C, where it will be connected with the Clemson Agricultural College, of which H. 

 A. Strode is president. The station staff' is at present organized as follows : H. A. 

 Strode, director; J. F. Duggar, assistant director; and M. B. Hardin, chemist. 



South Dakota Station. — In the station staff as now organized, L. McLouth Ph. 

 D., is president ex officio; L. Foster, M. S. A., director and agriculturist; and W. S. 

 Frost, accountant and stenographer, vice C. J. Coote, B. S. J. C. Duffy, B. S., is no 

 longer a member of the staff". 



The results of the sugar-beet culture at this station this season are quite satisfac- 

 tory. A sugar yield of 17.85 i^er cent of the whole beet has been obtained from 

 varieties grown from seeds imported and distributed by this Department. This re- 

 sult is 5.55 per cent greater than any other yet obtained by this station from beets 

 grown from American seeds. The importance of perfect maturity has been made a 

 special feature of the experiment this season. The results of different analyses made 

 at intervals of four days each, beginning when the beets were apparently mature 

 showed a remarkable increase of saccharine matter. Three successive intervals 

 showed each an increase of 1 per cent, and sixteen days, from October 9 to 25, a gain 

 of 34 per cent. 



Texas Station. — Among the investigations now in progress at this station are di- 

 gestion experiments with different feeding stuffs and feeding experiments with pigs 

 on a relatively large scale, in which the effects of cotton seed and cotton-seed meal 

 will be tested. 



Virginia Station. — Dr. Charles Ellis has been appointed veterinarian of the sta- 

 tion. A forcing-house is to be erected for the use of the horticultural department. 



