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Arizona Station. — Dr. A. AV. Morrill, of the Bureau of Entomology of this 

 Department, has been appointed entoniolo.i;ist and will bejiin work September 1. 

 He will also serve as entomologist of the newly established Territorial Horti- 

 cultural Commission, consisting of Foster H. Rockwell as chairman. Director 

 Forbes of the station as secretary-treasurer, and Andrew Kimball. A rigid 

 crop-pest law has been enacted, modeled after that of California, and contain- 

 ing both insi)ection and quarantine features. 



George F. Freeman, assistant botanist of the Kansas College and Station, 

 has been appointed agronomist and will take up work in the breeding of 

 alfalfa and other cro[)S for southwestern conditions. 



Colorado College and Station. — Wendell Paddock has resigned as botanist and 

 horticulturist to become professor of horticulture at the Ohio University. 

 W. E. Vaplon has been appointed poultryman. G. P. Weldon, field entomolo- 

 gist at Delta, has been transferred to Grand Junction, and R. S. Herrick has 

 been appointed field horticulturist at Delta. 



Connecticut State Station. — Prof. Samuel W. Johnson, director of the station 

 from its organization at New Haven, in 1S77, until January 1, 1900, died in 

 New Haven, July 21. after a brief illness, aged 79 years. An account of his 

 life will appear in a later issue. 



Massachusetts College. — Dr. Joseph S. Chamberlain, chief of the Cattle-Food 

 and (Jraiu Laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department, who 

 has been studying abroad the past year, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. 



Minnesota University and Station. — The appropriations by the last legislature 

 include $.50,000 for a girls' dormitory, $15,000 for the completion and equipment 

 of the dairy i)avilion, $15,000 for remodeling and equipping the dairy hall, 

 .«>6,000 for hog cholera work, $6,000 for a denatured alcohol plant, $1,000 for 

 •soil inspection, $4,000 for live stock, $3,500 for dairy extension work, $1,000 

 for horticultural investigations, $1,000 for entomological investigations, $3,-500 

 for the breeding of field crops, $9,000 for forestry instruction, $1,500 for ex- 

 periments in the use of preservatives for timber, $2,000 for drainage studies, 

 $400 for plant diseases, $3,500 for the distribution of entomological charts in 

 the public schools, $1,000 for the study of noxious weeds, and $10,000 for the 

 establishment and maintenance of a poultry department. 



The Crookstcm school- of agrimillure received $.S2,0(10 for maintenance and 

 buildings, and the Crookston and (Jrand Rapids substations $11,500 and $14,000 

 resi)ective]y. The Grand Rapids substati<m is to undertake special experiments 

 as to the best methods of stump clearing in the heavily timbered and cutover 

 sections of northern Minnesota. 



In addition 1o the above appropriations, a grant of $50,000 was made for 

 extension work in agriculture during the next biennium, and a division of 

 agricuKural extension and home education in the dei)artment of agriculture 

 was established to have charge of the work. This division is empowered to 



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