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Arthur M. Cleghorn are to reside at Davis, tlie former taking charge of the farm 

 operations and the latter of the educational work. 



The board of regents has set aside $200,000 from the general funds of the 

 university for an agricultural building, on which it is expected to begin work 

 this fall. 



Connecticut College. — The C. A. C. Lookout reports an appropriation by the 

 legislature of $1S,000 for four new cottages, and $5,000 for the poultry plant. 



Florida University and Station. — The board of control has been authorized to 

 expend $80,000 for the erection of new buildings. Half of this amount will be 

 used for the construction of a biological building and the remainder for the 

 erection and equipment of a new station building. The legislature has appro- 

 priated $15,000 for farmers' institutes for the ensuing biennium, and has 

 passed an act requiring the teaching of agriculture in all elementary schools 

 of the State. 



Stanley E. Collison has been appointed assistant chemist in the station, 

 entering upon his duties July 1, and Owen F. Burger has accepted a position 

 as assistant plant pathologist. E. P. Gi'eene has resigned as assistant ento- 

 mologist to accept a position as assistant State chemist. R. Y. Winters, as- 

 sistant botanist, has been given a year's leave of absence to take up postgraduate 

 work at Cornell University. 



Guam Station. — John B. Thompson, for several years connected with the 

 Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippine Islands, has been appointed special 

 agent in charge, with H. L. V. Costenoble as assistant. Considei-able material 

 has been received for the erection of the station buildings. Experimental plant- 

 ings of forage and other crops fi'om seed secured from the mainland and 

 Hawaii have been begun by the station, and seeds have also been distributed 

 to farmers and others for trial. 



Eawaii Federal Station. — David T. Fullaway has been promoted from assistant 

 entomologist to entomologist. Valentine Holt has been appointed assistant 

 agricultui'ist. 



Idaho University and Station. — A law was passed by the last legislature divid- 

 ing the State into two educational districts. In each of these a secondary agri- 

 cultural school is to be established by the regents of the university and at 

 their discretion a branch experiment station. The course of study for the 

 schools is to have for its major function " vocational education in agriculture 

 and in farm home making, not neglecting subjects of broadly educational value, 

 and shall articulate such studies with agriculture and home economics courses 

 of the State College of Agriculture above and the consolidated rural schools 

 below." The work of the branch stations " shall be especially directed to the 

 solution and demonstration of the agricultural problems of the respective dis- 

 tricts in which the stations are respectively located." 



Illinois Station. — The annual appropriations for soil investigations have been 

 increased for the ensuing biennium from $25,000 to $60,000. 



Iowa College and Station. — The new agricultural building was formally dedi- 

 cated June 9, the ceremonies forming a part of the commencement exercises. 

 The building is of the best niodei'u type, of simple but substantial fireproof con- 

 struction of granite and Bedford stone, and cost about $400,000. It is a four- 

 story structure with a main portion .2.34 by 78 ft., and a semicircular wing of 1)0 

 ft. frontage, the wing containing an assembly room seating about 1,000. Most of 

 the agricultural work of the college and station is to be located in the new build- 

 ing, including the departments of animal husbandry, soils, farm crops, horti- 

 culture, forestry, agricultural extension, agricultural chemistry, and agricul- 

 tural journalism. 



