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under way, especially of factors influencing egg production under North Dakota 

 conditions. 



Ohio Station. — The appropriations made by the general assembly to the station 

 for the ensuing year aggregate $106,295, an increase of nearly $50,000 over the 

 previous year. Some of the principal items are $26,300 for administration, 

 $16,475 for agronomy, .$15,000 for animal husbandry, $10,900 for botany, $20,470 

 for cooperative experiments, $5,000 for entomology, $10,000 for forestry, $10,500 

 for soils, $3,700 for chemistry, $10,950 for horticulture, $4,000 for nutrition, 

 $17,000 for completing the nutrition building, $3,000 for the extension of the 

 power house, and $4,000 for the purchase of land. 



The assembly also authorized the establishment of a department of dairy 

 husbandry, and appropriated $8,000 for its support. Among the lines of inves- 

 tigation which are contemplated are the production of dairy stocli, including 

 breeding and feeding, conformation as related to dairy function, utilization 

 of food, the effect of special foods, especially those deficient in pliosphorus, upon 

 the production and general health of the animal, the quality of the milk, and the 

 birth weight and vigor of offspring, and the pathology of the dairy with special 

 reference to tuberculosis. The present dairy herd, buildings and equipment, 

 and a portion of the station pastures, are to be transferred to the new depart- 

 ment. It is expected that the pathological work will eventually be organized as 

 a separate department. 



Under an act signed by the governor April 23, the commissioners of each 

 county of the State are required, upon petition of 200 or more of the taxpayers, 

 to submit to a vote a project for establishing a demonstration farm. If this is 

 authorized a tax not to exceed one-fifth mill for any one year may be levied for 

 its equipment and support. The station is to cooperate in the selection of sites 

 and the conducting of exi)eriments. 



Oklahoma College and Station.— The resignations are noted of L. A. Moorhouse 

 as agronomist, W. L. Burlison as assistant agronomist, W. R. Wright as assist- 

 ant bacteriologist, O. M. Morris, horticulturist and botanist, H. P. Miller, prin- 

 cipal of the school of agriculture, and three members of the clerical force of 

 the station. 



Rhode Island Station. — The station is just completing a hospital building for 

 use in connection with the investigation concerning the diseases of poultry and 

 methods for their control. 



Clemson College. — W. R. Perkins, agronomist of the Mississippi Station, has 

 been appointed director of the agricultural department. 



Texas Station. — W. C. Welborn has resigned as vice director and agriculturist. 



Vermont University and Station. — A better-farming special train was run on 

 the Rutland Division of the New York Central Lines in the State, April 12 to 15, 

 in cooperation with the agricultural department of the university, the state 

 commissioner of agriculture, and the state forester. It is estimated that about 

 5,500 people visited the train. 



H. A. Edson, for nearly four years assistant botanist and later bacteriologist 

 of the station and instructor in bacteriology in the university, will enter the 

 employ of the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department June 1. J. W. 

 Wellington, assistant horticulturist of the station, has accepted a position with 

 the Indiana Station, to take effect July 1. 



Washington College and Station. — Leonard Hegnauer, assistant in crop pro- 

 duction at the Illinois University and Station, has been appointed professor of 

 agronomy in the college and agronomist in the station, beginning .June 1. Robert 

 C. Ashby, adjunct jirofessor of animal husbandry at the Uiiiversity of Nebraska, 

 has been appointed assistant suiJeriuteudeut of farmers' institutes aud entered 



