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Colorado College and Station. — F. 10. livooks, n meinbor of the last Con^ross, 

 and J. L. I'.rusli, I'oriiicrly licuti'uant-j^'ovenior of the State, have been appointed 

 on the State board of agricnltnre, in succession to 1*. F. Sharp and Harlan 

 Thomas. B. F. Rockafellow has been elected president of the board. The 

 courses iu veterinary science and electrical engineering whidi were discontinued 

 on account of lack of funds ai'c to bo reinstated. 



An appropriation was made by the legislature for the purchase of land for the 

 college and station, and the use of 10 per cent of the funds arising from the sale 

 of lands under the original Morrill Act was authorized for tlie same purpose. 

 The station will receive .$27,500 for the ensuing bienniuni. provision being made 

 for work in animal, plant, and fruit industry, horse breeding, and diseases of 

 live stock. The fruit studies on the Western Slope are to be continued, and 

 additional work is planned with potatoes at Gi'eeley. 



Successful short courses were held during the winter in forestry, horticulture, 

 and domestic science. H. M. Cottrell has been placed in charge of the exten- 

 sion work and farmers' institutes, being succeeded as animal husbandman by 

 G. E. Morton, of tlie Wyoming University and Station, as previously announced. 



Florida Station. — Everest J. Macy. a graduate of Earlham College, has been 

 elected assistant chemist, .-ind I)egan his duties ]\lay 1. AVilliam Hess has been 

 appointed gardener. 



Illinois University and Station. — L. H. Kerrick, for four years a trustee and 

 on the day before his <l('atli elected president of the board, died March 18. 



Indiana Station. — The State board of agriculture has granted the station the 

 sole use of one of the large buildings on the State fair grounds. The building 

 will he remodeled and equipped to accommodate the station exhibits and a work- 

 ing dairy, and to provide an auditorium for illustrated lectures. It is hoped 

 that a large number of the people of the State will be brought into close touch 

 with the work of the station in this way. 



Kansas College and Station. — Au act was passed by the recent legislatiu'e 

 authorizing the board of county conunissioners of any county in which a sub- 

 station has been or shall b(^ established by the board of regents of the college 

 to purchase, on the petition of one-half of the legal voters of the county, a tract 

 of land not exceeding .■!20 acres, at a cost of not over .^."i.dOO, for lease or dona- 

 tion for experimental purposes, and to levy ;i lax in ]iayment. Under another 

 recent law, which provides for the nomination of the State dairy commissioner 

 by the secretary of the State board of agriculture, the director of the station, 

 and the ]trofessor of dairy husbjindry. .T. C. Kendall, of the North Carolina Col- 

 lege ;iii(I Statinii. has been .niiiMMiiIed. M. 1). Snodgrass, a recent graduate and 

 assistant in croi) i)ro(iuction. has been apitointed assistant in the Alaska Stations 

 and assigned to the breeding station at Kadiak Island, to begin work .Time 1. 

 C. K. McClelland, of the Farm Management branch of the Bureau of riant 

 Industry, has been appointed superintendent of the branch station at Fort 

 Hays. 



Louisiana Stations. — Iu cooperation with the cerealist of the Bureau of IMant 



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