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A chair of floricnitnro lias boon ostablished, and is to bo in cliarRe of E. A. 

 White, now bottmist at the Connecticut College and Storrs Station, who will 

 enter on his duties at the close of the college year. Francis ('aiming, instructor 

 in floriculture, has accepted a comniorcial i)osition in Pennsylvania. 



A summer school of a^ricultftre for teachers is to 1)0 hold, connnonciug July 

 S and continuing four weeks. This is in line with the recommendation.s of the 

 State Industrial Commission and recent acts of the legislature. Special atten- 

 (iou will be given to the methods of teaching school and homo gardening and 

 general nature study. 



Montana College and Station. — Increased appropriations for maintenance 

 (hn-ing the next hionninm and for new buildings were made by the legislature 

 at its recent session. The college received for maintenance .$50,000, an increase 

 of .$14,000. besides an appropriation of .$80,000 for an agricultural building. 

 For farmer.s' institutes .$1."),000 was api)ropriated. an increase of $7,000. and for 

 the purchase of pure-bred stock, .$.").000. The station was given .$1.^,000 for 

 maintenance and $G,000 for experiments in dry farming, an increase in each 

 case of 50 per cent. 



A permanent substation for di-y farming was established in Fergus County, 

 with .$1,000 per year for maintenance. The county is to contribute 160 acres 

 of land and at least .$8,000 for buildings. Cooperative work has been arranged 

 for with the Biuvau of Plant Industry of this Department and the cooperative 

 work with the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways will be con- 

 linned, these corporations having offered to contribute from .$4,500 to .$.5,.500 

 for this purpose. 



In response to a demand for fruit investigations .$500 was appropriated for 

 the establishment of a horticultural substation. A perpetual water right and 

 15 acres of land must be given by the community in which it is located. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — E. L. Shaw, associate agriculturist, has 

 been appointed to a ])osition in the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Depart- 

 ment, and will take up the work .July 1. 



New York State Station. — M. P. Sweeney, of Colgate University, and P. W. 

 Flint, of the Pennsylvania Station, have been api)ointed assistant chemists. 

 A. W. Clark has resigned to take up commercial work. 



Cornell University. — .Tames G. Needham, Ph. D., professor of biology in 

 Lake Forest I'ni versify, and also connected with the New York State Ento- 

 mological Field Station, has been appointed assistant professor of linmology 

 in the department of entomology of the college of agriculture, nis duties will 

 Include largely research work on the study of life in marsh and inland waters. 

 It is said that the course has heretofore never been offered in any university. 



North Dakota Station. — An annual appropriation of .$7,500 has been made by 

 the legislature for additional bulletins, the establishment of 12 demonstration 

 farms, experiments in the manufacture of denatured alcohol, and other 

 purposes. 



Ohio Station. — D. L. Samps<in has been reappointed a member of the board 

 of control. At its annual meeting T. C. Laylin was elected i)resident. D. L. 

 Sampson, secretary, and .Tohn Courtright. treasurer. A department of nutri- 

 tion investigations was established under the direction of E. B. Forbes, of the 

 Missouri University and Station, who is expected to begin his work during the 

 summer. An extejision of one of the station buildings has provid(>d additional 

 ofliee facilities. 



Oklahoma College. — The short course held this winter was an unprecedented 

 success, there l)eing alxnit .500 farmers in attendance. The keynote of the 

 meeting was agricultural educati<in of the farmer, both at home and in college. 



