NOTES. 



Colorado College and Station. — The general assembly has made appropriations 

 to the college aggregating $200,000, of which $90,000 is to be used for improve- 

 ments and maintenance, including $10,000 for general station and extension 

 worii. 



The assembly also accepted the Fort Lewis and the Grand Junction Indian 

 schools from the Federal Government, and passed a bill reorganizing them as 

 secondary schools of agriculture and mechanic arts under the direction of the 

 State board of agi'iculture. An appropriation of $60,000 was made for the 

 Fort Lewis school during the next bieunium, and $10,000 for the Grand Junc- 

 tion school. The latter institution will not be in operation the next two years, 

 except that the buildings will be used for short courses in agi'iculture and home 

 economics. G. F. Snyder, formerly principal of the Sauk County Training 

 School in Wisconsin, has been appointed principal of the Fort Lewis school, 

 which it is planned to open next fall. 



Hawaii College. — According to a note in Science, an appropriation of $75,000 

 was granted by the recent Territorial Legislature in addition to $20,000 for 

 maintenance. Grounds comprising about 90 acres, of which 30 acres were set 

 aside by the Government, are now available at Manoa. 



Iowa College and Station. — The legislature renewed for another period of 5 

 years the mill tax for the erection of buildings. It is estimated, that over 

 $1,000,000 will be available for this purpose dui-iug the next 6 years. A library 

 to cost $225,000 and a stock- judging pavilion to cost $20,000 were among the 

 buildings definitely authorized. 



Special appropriations were also made of $60,000 for equipment of the domes- 

 tic technology building, gymnasium, and veterinary hospital, $6,000 for improve- 

 ment of the grounds, $43,000 for the heating plant, $50,000 for general instruc- 

 tion, $18,000 for extension work, $15,000 for the station, and $5,000 each for 

 the engineering experiment station, the roads work, and the 2-year-course. 



C. V. Gregory, bulletin editor and head of the agricultural journalism 

 department, has x-esigned to become editor of the Prairie Farmer of Chicago. 



Cornell University. — The college of agriculture is holding its first summer 

 school from July 6 to August 6. The special purpose is the training of teach- 

 ers in agriculture, nature study, and home economics, and groups of courses in 

 each of these subjects are being offered. 



Texas Station. — Director H. H. Harrington has resigned, to take effect July 1. 

 He becomes agricultural director of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Rail- 

 road, with headquarters at Kiugsville. Texas. 



Utah College and Station. — The legislature at its recent session provided n 

 permanent appropriation for the maintenance of the college of slightly more 

 than one-third of a mill, which it is estimated will amount to $150,000 during 

 the ensuing bieunium. The legislature also increased the number of trustees 

 from nine to thirteen, and provided that the secretary of state should be a mem- 

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