NOTHS. 



Colorado College and Station. — The legislature has been asked for considera- 

 Me fuiuls for new buildhigs, additional eciuipment, and extension of investiga- 

 tions. 



Georgia College. — A dei)artmt'nt of forestry has been inaugurated at tlie 

 T'niversity of Georgia, witli Alfred Alvernian, formerly State Forester of INlas.sa- 

 <-husetts. in cliarge. 



Iowa College. — Tlie various short courses offered by tlie college tliis year 

 enrolled nearly 1,000 students. The board of trustees donated a free scholar- 

 ship to each farmers' institute in the State, and these scholarships were 

 awarded to about 100 students. 



Kansas College. — The I iidii stria lint states that the total enrollment is now 

 nearly 2,000. Many parallel classes have been organized and more will be 

 required. The new hortic-ultural hall, though not yet completed, is fully occu- 

 pied. A very successful series of meetings was held at the college from Decem- 

 ber 27 to January 5. These included a State farmers' institute with classes in 

 grain and stock judging, meetings of the Boys' Corn Contest Association, the 

 State Corn Breeders' Association, Good Roads Association, Draft Horse 

 Breeders' Association, Dairy Association, Aberdeen Angus A.ssociation, and 

 swine breeders. 



Louisiana Stations. — \Y. (i. Taggart and A. I'. Kerr, of the Mississippi College, 

 haA-e been appointed analytical chemists at the Baton Rougs Station. A. B. 

 Joffrion has resigned to accept a position in a large sugar factory in Porto Rico. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — A bill has been introduced into the leg- 

 islature to change the name of the station from the Hatch Experiment Station of 

 the Massachu.setts Agricultural College to the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. A professorship of ])omology is to be established in the college. 

 H. F. Tompson, a graduate of the college in 1905, has been appointed instructor 

 in market gardening aud supervisor of field work. Prof. G. F. Mills has been 

 made dean of the college and professor of the humanities, a chair newly estab- 

 lished, having for its object the closer correlation of the agricultural, technical, 

 scientific, and cultural studies of the curriculum. 



Michigan College. — F. H. Sanford, a graduate of the college in 1!)04, has been 

 appointed instructor in forestry to assist I'rofessor Bogue. 



Nebraska University and Station. — We leai-n from Agriculture that the legis- 

 lature is to be asked for .$220,000. of which .$180,000 is for the completion of a 

 woman's building, horticultural building, judging pavilion, and poultry plant in 

 the college of agriculture; .$25,000 for the maintenance of the substation at 

 North Platte, .and $15,000 for farmers' institutes. 



Ohio Station. — .J. II. Show has resigned as assistant chemist and has been 

 succeeded by S. S. Fay, of the University of Nebraska. The station has begun 

 the ero'tion of ;i glass house to be used in soil study. 



Rhode Island Station. — A. W. Richardson, assistant in agronomy, has re- 

 signed and is succeeded I)y S. C. Damon. 



South Dakota Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of regents a reso- 

 lution was adopted, pointing out the desirability of establishing :it least two 



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