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advantageous provisions for land and other equipment for the station. The counties 

 are autliorized to vote a special tax for this purpose. Tlie principal reasons for the 

 removal of the station are tliat the soil of the farm of the State University now used 

 by the station is so fertile that the results of field experiments there can not be taken 

 as reliable indications of what may be expected on the average soils of the State; 

 and, secondly, the rapid growth of the city of Columbus around tliis farm has made 

 it too valuable to be longer devoted to agricultural purposes. 



The legislature has appropriated $(500 to be used in continuing the insecticide and 

 fungicide experiments begun a year ago in the commercial orchards of this State, by 

 C. M. Weed, D. Sc. This work will bo in charge of W. J. Green, horticulturist of 

 the station and will be carried on in 18JI in at least five localities. One thousand 

 dollars has also been appropriated for two or three field tests with fertilizers on 

 representative soils in ditlerent parts of the State. It is j)roposi-d to lease small areas 

 of suitable laud, which are to be thoroughly uudcrdraiued and laid out in permanent 

 plats for continuous experiments with chemical and other manures. 



Pennsylvania Station. — C. H. Ziuk, jr., has been appointed assistant in field and 

 feeding experiments. 



Tennessee College and Station.— Clias. F. Vanderford has entered on his duties 

 as professor of agriculture in the college and a.ssistaut director of the station. 



Texas Station. — Investigations on the eliects of cotton seed and cotton-seed meal 

 as food for dairy cows, with special reference to the influence of these feeding stuffs 

 on gravity creaming, have given important results. The details of the investigation 

 will be published in Bulletin No. 14 of the station. 



Vehmont Station. — A. B. Cordley, B. S., microscopist, has resigned to accept a 

 position in the Division of Entomology of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



