NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — 11. S. Mackiutosli has been granted a year's 

 leave of abseuce for research in plant breeding at the Iowa College, where he 

 has a fellowship in horticulture and is also acting as instructor in horticulture. 

 M. J. Funchess has been appointed instructor in agriculture in the college and 

 assistant in agronomy in the station. 



California University and Station. — The legislature has increased the rate of 

 taxation for the support of the university from two to three cents for each one 

 hundred dollars of assessed valuation. This is expected to provide an income 

 for the current year of about $600,000. Appropriations were also made aggre- 

 gating $130,000 for additional buildings and equipment at the University Farm 

 at Davis, and $88,500 for its maintenance during the ensuing biennium; $20,000 

 for farmers' institutes; $15,000 for viticultural investigations; $12,000 for 

 cereal investigations; and about $40,000 for the equipment and maintenance of 

 the Southern California Pathological Laboratory'. 



A division of agricultural education has been organized, in which Leroy An- 

 derson, professor of dairying and superintendent of the university farm schools, 

 is to have direct charge of secondary instruction in agriculture. E. B. Babcock, 

 assistant professor of agricultural education, will assist in the secondary in- 

 struction and have direct charge of elementary instruction in agriculture, the 

 introduction of garden work, and the organization of agricultural clubs. Four 

 new courses are offered for regular and special students in the university on 

 teaching agricultui'e in high schools, teaching agriculture and nature study in 

 the elementary schools, gardening for prospective teachers, and a special course 

 for students who are preparing to teach the sciences and desire to obtain some 

 preparation in horticulture and agriculture. A circular on suggestions for 

 garden work in California schools has been published and another dealing with 

 agriculture in the high schools is in the hands of the printer. 



Howard Phillips has been appointed instructor in animal husbandry at Davis, 

 and L. M. Davis assistant in dairy husbandry. 



Colorado College and Station. — E. II. Bennett, assistant in horticulture, has 

 been appointed professor of horticulture and forestry and horticulturist, vice 

 Wendell Paddock, whose resignation has been previously noted. C. L. Fitch has 

 been appointed assistant potato specialist in the station. 



Connecticut College. — Chaiies F. Stephenson has been appointed assistant 

 poultryman. 



Connecticut State Station. — Clarence E. Shepard has been appointed chemist, 

 vice Charles A. Brautlecht, resigned. Other appointments include Samuel N. 

 Spring, as forester, and Walter O. Filley, as assistant forester. 



Florida University and Station. — As a result of the marked success of the cor- 

 respondence course for teachers, instituted last year", the university has ex- 

 tended these courses to farmers and their families and others who may be 

 interested. The new courses began November 1, and will be completed June 

 1, 1910. The subjects covered include elementary agriculture, soils, tillage, 

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