EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



The annnal sonvention of the Association of American AgricuUnral Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations will he beld in Washington, Angnst 12, 1891. 



CoLOUADO Station. — Nicolai Anderson lias been appointed assistant chemist, vice 

 II. L. Sabsovick, and Edward Bosher has been appointed snperintendent of the San 

 Luis Valley substation, vice H. K. (irifiin, B. S. 



Connecticut State Station. — Wm. C. Sturgis, Ph. D., has been appointed mycol- 

 ogist of the station, vice Roland Thaxter, Ph. D., who resigned to accept a profes- 

 sorship in Harvard University. 



Illinois Station. — Frank D. Gardner, B. S., has been appointed assistant agricul- 

 turist. 



Indiana Station. — C. S. Plumb, B. S., has been appointed director. 



Krntucky Station. — W. D. Nicholas has taken the place of R. A. Spurr as a mem- 

 ber of the governing board of the station. It is expected that the station building 

 which was partly destroyed by fire last winter, will again be ready for occupancy by 

 the first of September. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — President H. H. Goodell received the 

 degree of LL. D. from Amherst College at the recent commencement. 



Minnesota Station. — The regents of the University of Minnesota have appropriatd 

 $15,000 for instruction and experiments in dairying, including both butter and cheese 

 making. The director of the station is ex officio, one of five persons in charge of the 

 farmers' institute work in the State. In this capacity he visits different sections of 

 the State and explains the work of the station to farmers. 



Missouri Station. — The following is a synopsis of the plan of field experiments 

 at the station in 1891: (1) Tests of varieties of wheat, rye, oats, barley, flax, 

 grasses, sugar-beets, and tobacco — 140 plats. (2) Corn, manuring; preparation of 

 soil for planting; distance, thickness, and depth of planting; methods of cultiva- 

 tion ; influence of the removal of tassels before fertilization and seed selection — 131 

 plats. (3) Sugar-beets, tests with diflt'erent varieties and with fertilizers, by some T.'j 

 farmers in difiercnt parts of the State under direction of the station- 300 plats. (4) 

 Experiments with flax for seed and fiber — 22 plats. (5) Test of tile drainage for upland 

 clay loam — 7 plats. (6) Effective subsoiling in connection with tile drainage — 4 

 plats. (7) Potatoes, methods of cultivation — 18 plats. (8) Rotation of crops — 38 

 plats. (9) Timothy hay, influence of time of harvesting upon yield, feeding value, 

 and subsequent crop — 8 plats. Total number of plats, 068. 



North Carolina Station. — In order to bring the work of the station more directly 

 to the attention of the farmers of the State, the suballiauces (numbering nearly 

 2,300) have been requested to form "experimental committees," the chairmen of 

 which are to keep themselves in constant communication with the station. All the 

 publications of the station, including press bulletins, will be sent to these committees, 

 in order that the work of the station may be discussed in meetings of the alliances. 

 At such meetings "question boxes" are also used, and the questions deposited by 

 members are first discussed by the meeting and then referred to the station for further 

 answer. Great interest in the plan is already shown among farmers. 



Pennsylvania Station. — The "extractor separator," for making butter from 

 fresh milk, is now being run regularly at the station on Mondays, Wednesdays, and 

 Saturdays. Visilora are given every facility for investigating the operations of the 

 machine. 



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