NOTES. 



Idaho tTniversity and Station. — Appropriations hare been made of $6,000 

 for a two-story and basement stools and dairy barn, with a concrete silo and 

 milli room adjoining, a $3,000 stock-judging pavilion of mission style to accom- 

 modate 120 students, $13,000 for the purchase of additional land, and $20,000 

 for extension work in Southern Idaho. A dry-farming substation is to be estab- 

 lished in the southeastern part of the State for work in cooperation with this 

 Department. 



Illinois University and Station. — A total appropriation of $3,600,000 was made 

 to the university for the ensuing bieunium, of which $952,300 is for the college 

 of agriculture and experiment station. Provision was also made for levying a 

 one-mill tax during the next 2 years upon the assessed valuation of the State. 

 The revenues thus derived will constitute a fund from which the next legislature 

 may make detailed appropriations to the institution. 



Among the several items granted are $210,400 per annum for maintenance of 

 the college and station, $168,000 per annum for special investigations by the 

 station in live stock, farm crops, soils, orchards, floriculture, and dairying, 

 $19,000 for the purchase of improved live stock, $3,500 for additional equipment 

 for the farm mechanics laboratory, and $153,000 for new buildings. This in- 

 cludes $34,000 for additions to existing buildings and the erection of several 

 small structures ; $80,000 towards a live-stock building and large pavilion to 

 cost eventually $100,000 ; $39,000 for green houses ; and $20,000 for the purchase 

 of 40 acres of land for the poultry plant and additional field experiments. 



The legislation provides for the inauguration of work in soil biology, poultry, 

 and forestry, and for additional work in veterinary science, landscape gardening, 

 floriculture, animal nutrition, and agricultural extension. 



Fred L. Charles, assistant professor of agricultural education since 1909, 

 died at Urbana May 6, at the age of 38 years. Prof. Charles was a graduate of 

 Northwestern University, from which institution he also received in 1895 the 

 M. S. degree. Subsequently he specialized further in biology and zoology at the 

 University of Chicago and elsewhere. His early work in teaching was in public 

 and secondary schools, but in 1899 he became professor of biology at the North- 

 ern Illinois State Normal School, where he remained for 10 years, giving special 

 attention to the methods of teaching nature study in the public schoools. Plis 

 work at the University of Illinois had been largely in the formulation of plans 

 for the introduction of agriculture into the elementary schools of the State, in 

 which field his work was largely of a pioneer nature. At the time of his death 

 he was also editor of Nature Study Review. 



Louisiana Stations. — George Chaquelin, formerly assistant chemist at the 

 Sugar Station, has been appointed assistant director of the Sugar Station, vice 

 H. P. Agee, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



0. O. Moreland and C. B. Sherrouse, 1911 graduates of the university, have 

 been appointed assistants in plant pathology in connection with the researches 

 under the Adams Act. 

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