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reenforced concrete and steel, and fireproof thron.ybont. The building is de- 

 signed to accommodate over 1.000 students and will contain a main lecture room 

 seating 200. a general laboratory for 170, smaller lecture rooms and laboratories, 

 a library and reading room, offices, museums, etc. Special provision has been 

 made along Industrial lines. The basement will contain furnaces for assaying, 

 ceramics and clay working, and special laboratories will be fitted up for work 

 in agricultural analj'sis and the chemistry of the sugar, cotton, rice, and 

 petroleum industries and their by-products. It is claimed that the laboratory as 

 a whole will rank when completed among the largest and best equipped in the 

 South, and that the sugar laboratory will be the most complete of its class in 

 the world. 



Maine University. — The college of agricultvu'e has arranged for two months of 

 demonstration work, beginning July l.j. Under the proposed plan, a member of 

 the staff will hold an afternoon meeting at some farm at which a practical talk 

 and demonstration will be given. The subjects include milk testing, spraying, 

 pruning and grafting, soil fertility, home mixing of fertilizers, and other topics. 

 Arrangements have also been made to establish a forestry experiment station in 

 cooperation with the Forest Service of this Department. The university is to 

 provide 5 acres of land and will exercise immediate supervision of the experi- 

 mental work. The object will be to determine the species and cultural methods 

 best suited to M.nine conditions. Prof. G. E. Tower is to be in charge. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — A department of agricultural education 

 has been established, its duties to include both instruction and reseai'ch. This 

 is an entirely new departure at the college and is believed to be the first attempt 

 in this country to organize this kind of work on so broad a foundation. Normal 

 courses will be offered to pro.spective teachers, and studies will ]>e made of prob- 

 lems confronting agricultural teaching in colleges and schools of various grades, 

 and of agricultui'al extension with a view to introducing agriculture into the 

 elementary schools, establishing agricultural high schools, and correlating and 

 unifying the agricultural instruction given in the State. The work will be in 

 close cooperation with existing educational agencies, especially the State indus- 

 trial commission. W. R. Hart, of the Nebraska State Normal School, who has 

 had long experience in teaching and is the author of a number of monographs 

 and other articles on educational topics, has been selected as the head of the 

 department and will begin his duties with the next college year. 



F. C. Kenney, at present assistant secretary of the ^lichigan College, has l»een 

 appointed treasurer and will act as the business agent of the college and station. 



Missouri University and Station. — Dr. R. M. Bird, assistant professor of agri- 

 cultural chemistry and assistant chemist in the station, has resigned to accept 

 a position as professor of undergraduate chemistry at the University of Virginia. 

 A. E. Grantham, instructor in agronomy and assistant agronomist, has also 

 resigned. 1'. L. (Jile. a graduate of Harvard University, has been appointed 

 assistant in chemistry, and F. G. King, a graduate of this luiiversity. assistant 

 in animal husbandry iu the university and assistant in feeding in the station. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The legislature has appropriated .$100,000 

 for new buildings and improvements, including .$20,000 for the completion of 

 the woman's building, $.35,000 for a heating and power plant. $.30,000 for a 

 stock and grain judging pavilion, and $1.5.000 for a steer-feeding plant, tool 

 barn, houses, etc. An appropriation has also been made of $2.5.000 for the sub- 

 station at North Platte, about $10,000 of which will be used for permanent im- 

 provements and the remainder for maintenance during the ensuing biennium. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — At a I'ecent meeting of the board of 

 trustees the presidency of the college and directorship of the station were 



