NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — J. C. C. Price has been apiioinreil assistant in 

 horticnltnre. 



California University. — In connection with the short courses recently com- 

 pleted at Davis, the first Farmers' Week was held, beginning October 25. A 

 special feature was a conference on rural life, at which W. A. Beard, of the 

 recent Commission on Country Life, acted as chairman. The total attendance 

 at the Farmers' Week and the short courses was about 200. 



Colorado College.— A building 60 by 120 ft. is under construction for the 

 department of civil and irrigation engineering, and is expected to be completed 

 at an early date. 



B. O. Longyear, professor of botany, is also to act as professor of forestry. 



Georgia College. — An appropriation of $125,000 was made by the last legis- 

 lature for maintenance during the ensuing biennium. Of this sum, $10,000 is 

 for extension teaching, which with funds available from other sources will 

 supply about $14,000 a year for this purpose. As a result of these appropria- 

 tions departments of chemistry and veterinary medicine have been organized, 

 the college staff is being increased, and much needed equipment is being added. 



W. A, Worsham, jr., who is a graduate of the Universitj- of Georgia, and 

 has received the M. S. degree at Harvard University, has been appointed 

 adjunct professor of chemistry; and Dr. A. G. G. Richardson, formerly con- 

 nected with the Bureau of Animal Industry, of this Department, has been 

 appointed professor of veterinary medicine. 



J. E. Hite, formerly of the Tennessee Station, assumes charge of extension 

 work, with Thomas A. Early in charge of school extension, A. Maclaren in 

 charge of dairy extension, and S. A. Minear in charge of horticultural exten- 

 sion work, and R. L. Nixon as assistant in the organization and direction of 

 institute work. This will give a staff of five men devoting their time exclu- 

 sively to extension work in the State. There has been a hearty response to the 

 extension work thus far organized, and it is planned during the winter to hold 

 a series of itinerant schools at the conclusion of the cotton school, the stock- 

 men's short course, the farmers' conference, and other meetings to be held at 

 the college in January. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — Funds have been allotted fi"om the Territorial income 

 tax to erect a new office building for the station. It is proposed to provide in 

 this building rooms for the library, storage of bulletins, and ofBces for five or 

 six members of the staff. The old office building will then be turned over to 

 the joint use of the chemist and entomologist, and the quarters now used by 

 the agronomist will be used for storage purposes. 



An arrangement has just been completed for starting a rotation experiment 

 of 60 acres on the island of Molokai. Tliis experiment is to be under the 

 direction of the station and the work done by the owner of the laud. The 

 laud will be at the disposal of the station until the experiment is concluded. 



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