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Connecticiit State Station. — The station has designed an educational exhibit 

 to sliow the departments of worli in which it is engaged, and also something 

 of methods and results. The exhibit fills a tent 40 by 60 feet, owned by the 

 station, and has been set up at five or six of the agricultural fairs in the 

 State. Members of the station sttifC are in daily attendance to explain the 

 exhibit and answer questions. All labels are printed, and special study has been 

 given to make them as plain and instructive as possible. The exhibit has 

 attracted much iittention wherever shown. 



Georgia College. — The last legislature increased the appropriation for exten- 

 sion worli from $12,500 to $45,000 and the college maintenance fund by $10,000, 

 making for the ensuing biennlum an income of $250,000 for the furtherance of 

 education in agriculture and extension teaching. It is hoped to inaugurate exten- 

 sion work on soils, organize breeding work with corn and cotton throughout the 

 State, enlarge the work with boys and girls through the schools, foster animal 

 and poultry husbandry through the establishment of si>ecial extension depart- 

 ments, and greatly enlarge the organization of itinerant schools of agriculture. 

 The attendance in the college has increased in a gratifying manner. 



An appropriation of $5,000 has been granted for the manufacture of hog chol- 

 era serum, of which $3,000 is for the equipment of the plant. The serum is 

 to be sold by the state veterinarian at cost and the receipts revert back to the 

 veterinary department of the college for subsequent maintenance. 



Idaho University and Station. — The imiversity has completed a live-stock 

 judging pavilion for the use of classes in animal husbandry. This is a one- 

 story structure, 36 by 60 feet, in mission style, with stucco finish on the outside, 

 with raised seats, wide roomy si)ace for live-stock specimens, and equipped with 

 a heating plant, an office, and stall room for stock. 



There has also been completed a modern dairy and live-stock barn for the 

 use of the college and station. The main part of this barn has two floors, 

 and is 48 by 66 feet in size, with a concrete silo 33 by 16 feet. There is also 

 a wing for dairy stock 36 by 55 feet, provided with a milk room, an office, 

 and complete equipment. 



Recent appointments include the following: E. W. Hamilton as professor of 

 agricultural engineering. Dr. E. T. Bnker as professor of veterinary science, 

 C E. Temple as associate professor of agricultural botany and plant pathology, 

 Cecil Starring as assistant in horticulture in the college and assistant horti- 

 cultvirist in the station, and C. Y. Schrack, as gardener. 



Purdue University. — A bequest to the school of agriculture of $50,000 and 

 1,500 acres of Minnesota land by the late William C. Smith, of Williamsport, 

 Ind., is announced. 



The entering class in agriculture is 137, a 20 per cent increase over last , 

 year and the largest in the history of the institution. 



The farmers' short courses this year are to be shortened from a week to 

 three days, and they are to be held in the smaller rural towns rather than in 

 the larger cities, as in the past. Nearly 30 applications have already been 

 received. 



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