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a collection of agricultural text-books, exhibits of pure-bred cattle and hogs, a 

 health exhibit, and material pertaining to forage crops, insect pests, animal 

 diseases, soils, fertilizers, feedstuff s, etc. 



The new residence for the assistant director in charge of the North Louisiana 

 Station has just been completed, at a cost of about $4,000. 



Massachusetts Station. — George R. Pierce has been appointed assistant 

 chemist. 



Michigan Station. — William C, Marti and Arao Itano have been appointed 

 assistant chemists. 



Minnesota University and Station. — The university is encouraging the forma- 

 tion of boys' corn-growing contests, for which prizes aggregating $600 are avail- 

 able, in addition to a scholarship for one year at the school of agriculture 

 which has been provided by a Minneapolis newspaper. The same journal is 

 also inaugurating tomato-growing contests for the girls of the State, under the 

 direction of the agricultural extension division of the university, and to be 

 conducted along the lines employed by this Department in the South. 



0. W. Howard, of the Rockefeller Institute, has been appointed instructor in 

 entomology, and O. G. Babcock, of the Maryland College, assistant in ento- 

 mology, in succession respectively to C. S. Spooner, who has accepted an ap- 

 pointment in the ofl3ce of the state entomologist of Georgia, and H. B. Scam- 

 mell, who has been appointed county inspector of nurseries and orchards in 

 Colorado. F. H. Stoneburn, poultry husbandman at the Connecticut College 

 and Station, is to have charge of the poultry section after August 1. 



Mississippi Station. — A modern cattle barn 120 by 48 feet, and a concrete 

 silo 36 feet high and 18 feet in diameter, have been completed at a cost of 

 $4,000. 



Montana Station. — G. E. Smith, assistant chemist at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, has been appointed assistant chemist, commencing April 1. 



New Hampshire College. — It is planned to utilize the state appropriations of 

 $5,000 for extension work largely for the following purposes: Correspondence, 

 demonstrations, advice as to farm, orchard, and forest management, farm and 

 orchard surveys, the formation of dairy test associations, cooperative tests 

 with county farms in variety testing of corn, cooperative tests with farmers in 

 handling hay lands and using agricultural lime, a census of the sheep industry, 

 exhibits at fairs, services for agricultural lectures and as judges, identification 

 of fruits, weeds, insects, and plant diseases, with recommendations, county in- 

 stitute excursions to the college in the summer, two-day farmers' institutes at 

 the college during the winter, and the preparation of agricultural reading 

 courses. 



Frank App, assistant in agronomy at the Pennsylvania Station, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of agronomy in the college and assistant agronomist 

 in the station. 



New Mexico College and Station. — The college held its first Farmers' Week 

 January 1 to 6, offering lectures and demonstrations in horticulture, agronomy, 

 soils, animal husbandry, dairying, irrigation, entomology, and domestic science. 

 There was an attendance of about one hundred, and many favorable comments 

 were elicited from the press of the State. 



A demonstration train was sent out over the entire Santa Fe line in New 

 Mexico during 17 days of January. The train consisted of six cars, two of 

 which were fitted up for live stock, one (a flat car) for showing root systems in 

 fruit trees, one for agricultural exhibits, one for a lecture coach, and one for 

 the use of the staff. The trip included 17 of the 26 counties, and a total of 

 32,244 people visited the train. A special feature dwelt upon was the organiza- 

 tion of boys' and girls' industrial clubs. 



