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Arizona University and Station. — Tlie rcsiiriiation is noted of V. A. Clnrk, 

 ;ij,'ricnltiirist niid horticulturist. 



Connecticut Stations. — I'.y nn act approved May 1 the legishxture has fonnally 

 acceded to the provisions of the Adams Act, and provided that the funds shall 

 he divided Cijually between the State and Storrs stations. 



Florida TIniversity and Station. — H. P. Stuckey, assistant horticulturist at the 

 Alabama Station, has been appointed assistant in cotton work in the station. 

 The visiting committee from the legislature has recommended an appn)priation 

 nf .$40.(Miu for the erection of a building to be used for station, administrative, 

 and laboratory purposes, and .$5,000 a year for the ensuing biennium for farmers' 

 institute work. 



Idaho University and Station. — .J. R. Shinn, field assistant in pomology in the 

 Illinois Station, has been aiipointed professor of horticulture in the university 

 .ind horticulturist in the station. A department of dairying has been estab- 

 lished under the direction of J. II. Frandson, a graduate of the Iowa College, as 

 professor of dairying in the university and dairyman in the station. It is 

 I'lanned to develop materially the work in daii'ying. 



Iowa College. — According to liyccdfrx' Gazette, V. R. Gardner, instructor in 

 horticulture, has been elected assistant horticulturist at the MacDonald Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Kansas College and Station. — A recent act of the legislature designates the 

 college as the State highway commi.ssion, and among its duties specifies the 

 devising of jilans and systems of highway construction and of regulations for 

 the repair and maintenance of highways, the conducting of demonstrations in 

 road building at the re(juest of the county conuuissloners, the providing of trained 

 demonstrators for this purpose, and the disseminating of information among the 

 county conunissioners, highway officials, and the general public. The depart- 

 ment of domestic science is conducting a month's dietary study among its 

 students. W. E. Mathewson has returned to the college as assistant professor 

 of chemistry and assistant chemist in the station. 



Kentucky College and Station. — U. W. Taylor, assistant entomologist and 

 botanist in the station, has resigned to accept a i)osition in the Indian Indus- 

 trial School at Carlisle. Pa. The board of control of the station has authorized 

 the construction of a jiiggery and of a propagating house. One wing of the 

 agricultural building for the college is now l)eing erected. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — The university announces the establish- 

 ment of a school of agriculture nio<leled closely after that at the Minnesota 

 rnlversity. A. K. 1 (odson, farm iiuiiiager at the Auduix.n Park Station, has 

 resigned. 



A description is given in Donvtrr of the new chemical laboratory in process 

 "f construction. A .•;-st(n-y lirick structure is being erected, with an interior of 



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