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New York State Station. — L. T^. .Moroll, of Kinderlionk, has been iipitointfd to 

 the board of coutrol. 



North Carolina College and Station. — In addition to the annnal appropriatiou 

 of $70,000 for maintenance the legislature has appropriated $18,000 annually 

 for the ensuing bienninm for permanent improvements and equipment. Under 

 a recent law the station bulletins and reports are to be published by the State 

 I.rinter. as is other State printing. I. O. Schaub, of the State station, has been 

 appointed professor of agricultural extension. 



North Carolina State Station. — By an act of the last legislature the duties of 

 the State 'Crop Pest Commission have been transferrred to the State board of 

 agriculture. A seed-insi)ection law was passed, the enforcement of which is 

 left to the State board. The board is given authority to sell any of its test 

 farms and invest the net proceeds in similar fai'ms elsewhere. 



Ohio University. — A bronze memorial tablet has been erected by the instructors 

 and former students in agriculture and veterinary medicine to the memory of 

 the late Dr. Norton S. Townshend, one of the founders of the university and its 

 first professor of agriculture. 



Oklahoma Station, — C. E. Sanborn, formerly of the Texas Station, has been 

 appointed entomologist, and A, L. Lovett, assistant entomologist. 



Oregon College and Station. — For the ensuing bienninm a total of $210,000 was 

 appropriated by the last legislature. Of this $00,000 is for additional equip- 

 ment, $.35,000 for a central heating plant, $55,000 for an agricultural building, 

 $.35,000 for a drill hall, $5,000 for greenhouses, and $20,000 for the imrchase of 

 additi(mal land. The annual aiipropriation for maintenance was also increased 

 to $80,000. An appropriatiou of $2,.500 was made for dry-farming experiments 

 and $3,000 for irrigation experiments, both in cooperation with this Department, 

 and $15,000 was granted for the maintenance of the Eastern Oregon substation. 



A law was also passed under which a board of five members, to be known as 

 the board of higher curricula, is to be appointed by the governor. The duties 

 of this board are to be the prevention of duplication of studies or departments 

 in the higher educational institutions of the State, viz, the agricultural college 

 and the State university. The boai'd is empowered to determine and define the 

 courses of study to be offered by each institution and the departments to be con- 

 ducted, and after investigation and twenty days' notice may direct the elimina- 

 tion of any duplicating courses or departments. 



C. C. Cate, assistant plant pathologist in the station, has been succeeded by 

 H. S. Jackson, Austin Teaching Fellow at Harvard and formerly of the Dela- 

 A'iare Station. 



Pennsylvania College. — A convention of the State Millers' Association was 

 held at the college, September 8-10, witli addresses by several of the college 

 staff. 



Washington College and Station. — A feedstuff's law was enacted by the last 

 legisliiture, the enforcement of which is to rest with the director of the station. 

 The expenses of the inspection are to be defrayed by the sale of stamps or labels. 



The most complete demonstration train yet sent out from the college traversed 

 western Washington during the last of June. The outfit included a specially 

 equipped car for dairy stock and a milking machine in operation : a horticul- 

 tural car containing .several orcliard trees with which demonstrations were 

 given of horticultural i)ractice and spraying operations, an extensive horticul- 

 tural library, iuul appliances for the marketing of orchard crops; a lumltry car 

 fitted mj) with small models of a|tproved poultry buildings, incubator houses, 

 brooder houses, etc.; and a dairy car containing bottling apparatus, milk 

 coolers, cream separators, and other dairy apparatus. The cars were lighted 

 by a special apjiaratus such as can be readily installed in farm homes. 



