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Clemson College and Station. — The offices of director of the agricultural de- 

 partment and director of the station have been combined, and Director Harper 

 elected to the position. \V. L. English, formerly director of the Oklahoma 

 Station, has been appointed superintendent of the division of extension work 

 and state agent of the Farmers' Cooi:>erative Demonstration Work in South 

 Carolina, the entire work now being centered at the college. 



Texas Station. — A conference of the various heads of substations was recently 

 held for the purpose of systematizing the work of the institution. Particular 

 attention was directed to the value of the project method of outlining experi- 

 mental work and the need of maintaining permanent records. E. M. Johnson 

 has been appointed superintendent of the Beaumont substation. Plans are 

 under way for the construction of a laboratory building at Beaumont, the 

 improvement of the grounds, and the extension of the work in rice growing, 

 rotation trials, and poultry raising. 



Utah College.— Correspondence instruction in agriculture has recently been 

 organized as a branch of the extension division. 



Vermont University and Station. — A new greenhouse has been completed at an 

 approximate cost of $7,000. It contains a main structure, divided into a labora- 

 tory, a potting room, and an office, and three glass houses, of which one is for 

 the use of the station. 



Virginia Station. — At the session of the general assembly just closed an ap- 

 propriation of $10,000 annually for the next two years was made to the station, 

 $5,000 annually being for experiments with tobacco and crops grown in rotation 

 with it, and $5,000 for district substations. This is an increase of $5,000 over 

 the appropriation made to the station by the previous assembly. The substa- 

 tions to be established with this fund, as well as the five tobacco stations 

 already in operation, are in the nature of itinerant experiment plats rather 

 than permanent substations. At each point from 5 to 25 acres of land are 

 leased for a short term of years, and when satisfactory results have been secured 

 the work is transferred to other sections of the State and to other problems. 

 One-half of the appropriation will be used for experiment orchards and one-half 

 for experiments with field crops. 



Virginia Truck Station. — B. D. Adams, of Red Oak, has been elected president 

 of the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, vice J. M. Barker, deceased, 

 and thereby becomes an ex-offlcio member of the governing board of the station. 



Wisconsin University. — County horse breeders' clubs are being organized 

 among horsemen, farmers, and others interested in horse breeding. The initial 

 club, in Dane County, has a membership of 125. 



Consolidation of Agricultural Agencies in the British West Indies. — A depart- 

 ment of agriculture has recently been organized for the islands of Trinidad and 

 Tobago through the consolidation of the government analytical department, the 

 experiment station at St. Clair, the botanic gardens, the government stock farms, 

 and the River and St. Augustine estates. A board of agriculture has also been 

 established, which will consist of the director of the department of agriculture 

 and from ten to twenty persons representing the agricultural interests of the 

 colony. 



A similar consolidation has taken place in Jamaica, where a department of 

 agriculture has taken over the duties of the board of agriculture, the depart- 

 ment of public gardens and plantations, the island and agricultural chemists' 

 department, and the control of sugar experiments. Its functions will be to 

 carry on the experimental work, the collection of data respecting tropical agri- 

 culture, and the seed and plant introductions, while the work of popularizing 

 results will continue to be entrusted to the agricultural society. 



