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Arizona Station. — G. E. P. Smith, irrigjition ongineer, lias beeu grauted a 

 year's leave of absence. lie will visit irrigated districts in southern Europe 

 and northern Africa during the sununer and will then probably return to this 

 country for a technical study of pumping devices during the remainder of the 

 year. 



California University. — Several new buildings have been erected during the 

 year for the f<ehool of agriculture at Davis, including a dining hall, horticul- 

 tural building, veterinary clinic, horse and sheep barns, poultry houses, a grape 

 house, and an addition to the seed house. 



Exercises in celebration of the completion of these buildings were held at 

 the school May 3, with an attendance of 2,400. The program consisted of a 

 basket picnic and of addresses by Presidents Benjamin Ide ^yheeler, of the 

 university, and David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 Profs. E. W. Major, C. M. Haring, M, E. Jaffa, and W. T. Clarke, and Miss 

 Katherine Winaus. 



Georgia College. — A special course in cotton grading and agriculture will be 

 offered from June 27 to July 29, in cooperation with the university summer 

 school. Special emphasis is to be laid on cotton grading and plant breeding 

 as affecting the improvement of the fiber. Elementary courses in soils, 

 agronomy, and plant production which will be of special interest and benefit 

 to teachers will also be provided. 



Extension schools for teachers are being organized at several points in the 

 State in cooperation with the county school commissioners. The plan is to 

 have the staff" of the extension department take charge of these institutes and 

 organize work along lines which will enable the teachers to acquire the informa- 

 tion necessary to introduce instruction in agriculture into the common schools. 



Hawaii College. — Willis T. Pope, pi'ofessor of botany and horticulture, has been 

 apiiointed by the governor superintendent of public instruction in the Territory. 



Idaho University and Station. — The board of regents has authorized the estab- 

 lishment of a school of practical agriculture with a course of study to extend 

 over three years, and with six months' instruction each year beginning about 

 October 1. E, J. Iddings, assistant in animal husbandry in the Colorado College, 

 has been appointed principal of the school and is to enter upon his duties 

 August 1. 



Several movable schools of agriculture are to be held during December and 

 January for periods of two weeks each. The plan includes the holding of 

 three of these schools simultaneously, so that the men drawn from college work 

 maj' accomplish the most with the least possible traveling and loss of time. 

 The appointment of three field men for extension work in horticulture and 

 entomology, irrigation and general farming, and dairying, respectively, was 

 also authorized. 



C. C. Vincent, assistant horticulturist of the Oregon Station, has accepted an 

 appointment as assistant in horticulture in the university and station. 



Indiana Station. — Frank D. Kern, associate botanist, has been appointed a 

 university fellow in botany at Columbia University for the ensuing year. 



Massachusetts Station. — An appropriation has been made by the legislature of 

 $15,000 for purchasing laud and buildings In the cranberry district and the 

 equipment and maintenance of a substation in the interests of cranberry 

 growers. Dr. H. J. Franklin is to be in local charge of the substation. 

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