EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



Colorado College and Station. — C. P. Gillette, M. S., of the Iowa Station, has 

 been elected professor of zoology and entomology in the Colorado College, and ento- 

 mologist of the station. 



Florida Station. — Investigations have -been begun with reference to methods of 

 growing oranges and the diseases and insect enemies of this fruit. 



Georgia Station. — A stable and barn 75 by 42 feet, and a chemical laboratory 40 

 by 40 feet are nearlj'^ completed. Dr. Charles Ilerty, assistant chemist, will take 

 charge of the new laboratory February 1, 1891. The State legislature has appro- 

 priated |6,500 for building purposes. 



Mississippi Station. — The office building has been enlarged to provide additional 

 rooms for the library, work in botany and entomology, and the storage of seeds and 

 samples. 



New Hampshire Station. — The station staff expect to spend about a month dur- 

 ing the winter in explaining the results of the work of the station to the farmers in 

 farmers' institutes. 



New York Cornell Station. — A three-story structure, 30 by 40 feet, has been 

 added to the farm buildings. A portion of this building will be used for experiments 

 in breeding and feeding swine. A Babcock milk-tester is now in use in the dairy. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — T. F. Hunt, B. S., assistant agriculturist 

 the Illinois Station, has accepted the position of professor of agriculture in the Penn- 

 sylvania College, and agriculturist of the station. 



Utah Station. — Tests of the draft of wagons, under different conditions and on 

 various kinds of roads, with the dynamometer, have been completed. 

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