NOTES. 



Arizona University and Station. — Ground was broken July 31 for the new 

 agricultural building wlilch is to cost about $165,000. The structure will include 

 otBce and laboratory room for all departments of the station work, for college class 

 work in agriculture, and for extension work. By an ingenious utilization of the 

 patio, or inner court, of the building, audience room is provided for about 1,600 

 people. It is expected that the building will be completed in July, 1915. 



A new farm of 160 acres has been purchased for the station in Salt River 

 Valley at a cost of $30,000. This farm is expected to afford suitable facilities 

 for experimental work in this representative irrigated district. 



Recent appointments include G. W. Barnes as farm adviser in the extension 

 service; W. S. Cunningham, assistant in animal husbandry and dairying at the 

 New Mexico Station, as assistant animal husbandman in the college and sta- 

 tion ; and Stephen B. Johnson as assistant horticulturist in the college and 

 station. 



California University and Station. — ^A. V. Stubenrauch, in charge of the horti- 

 cultural and pomological investigations of this Department, has been appointed 

 head of the new division of pomology. 



Connecticut College. — A Country Life Conference was held for 3 weeks be- 

 ginning July 13. The first week was devoted to rural leadership, with confer- 

 ences of rural ministers, business men, and others. Subsequently, meetings 

 were held by the State Forestry Association, Botanical Club, Pomological 

 Society, Vegetable Growers' Association, Bee Keepers' Association, Farm Man- 

 agers' and Sheep Breeders' Associations, Dairymen's Association, and Poultry 

 Association. 



Connecticut State Station. — H. F. Huber. a graduate of the New Jersey College, 

 has been appointed specialist in market gardening. 



Georgia Station. — The legislature recently appropriated $2,500 to be used for 

 buildings and repairs. This action is encouraging as it is the first money ap- 

 propriated for the station by the State for over 20 years. 



Iowa College and Station. — A plant industry building of the same general 

 type of architecture as the hall of agriculture is under construction. One of 

 its wings is to be a plant laboratory for work in truck crops, floriculture, land- 

 scape gardening, and general horticulture. This laboratory is to consist of a 

 cellar containing a cold-storage room for cut flowers, truck crops, and pomology, 

 and rooms for the storage of greenhouse supplies, bulbs, roots, etc. ; a basement 

 with three plant propagation laboratories and a packing and shipping room : a 

 main floor with offices, a large truck-crop laboratory and smaller recitation 

 rooms, etc. ; and a first floor with offices for the station staff in truck crops 

 and pomology, drafting rooms, and a research laboratory. This laboratory 

 building is expected to be ready for occupancy at the beginning of the second 

 semester. 



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