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California College. — Aruoug the short courses announced for the coming 

 winter at the university farm at Davis is one in wine making and wine test- 

 ing from January 2 to 8, which is intended for wine maimers of some experience. 



Connecticut State Station. — Harry R. Stevens has been appointed chemist. 



Illinois University and Station. — Eugene Funli has been elected a member of 

 the board of trustees. An appropriation of $7,500 annually was granted by the 

 last legislature for investigations in floriculture. An advisory committee of 

 five members of the State florists' association and the director is to decide upon 

 the lines of work to be carried on. A. C. Beal has been appointed assistant in 

 floriculture in the station. 



Indiana Station. — A horticultural and soil improvement special train was run 

 through the southern part of the State from November 19-22, as the result of 

 cooperation by the railway companies in equipi)ing and operating the train, 

 and the station and State horticultural society, which furnished the speakers. 

 The horticultural lectures were in charge of C. G. Woodbury, and the soil 

 improvement work, which dealt largely with the use of fertilizers, was under 

 the supervision of Director Goss. A dairy special train, operated along similar 

 lines and in charge of members of the dairy department of the station and rep- 

 resentatives of the State Dairy Association, was operated from December 9-13. 



Kansas College and Station. — The new State fertilizer law, under which the 

 fertilizer control work is transferred from the State board of agriculture to the 

 station, went into effect Septeml)er 30. A text-book on elementary agricul- 

 ture, written by different members of the college faculty, will be issued in a 

 series of monthly jiamphlets under tlie direction of the superintendent of col- 

 lege extension. A pamphlet on Soils has already been issued, and others will 

 follow on How IMants Feed, Tree Culture, Birds and Insects, Hygienic Cook- 

 ery, Live Stock on the Farm, etc. The Industrialist notes the recent death of 

 Rev. Elbridge Gale, professor of botany and horticulture from 1870-1878. 



Louisiana Stations. — .J. G. Lee has resumed his duties as assistant director 

 of the Calhoun Station, after a year's leave of absence on account of ill health, 

 and J. B. Garrett, who has been acting director, has taken up entomological 

 work in the sugar-cane district. 



Some cooperative experiments have been arranged by this station with the 

 Forest Service of this Department in the preservation of fence posts, and the 

 use of loblolly, or old field pine, for this purpose. Good fence-post timber is 

 becoming rather scarce, and it is expected that this species of pine, which is 

 quite al)undant, can be profitably used for fence posts, shingles, and other farm 

 purposes. E. J. Watson, for many years horticulturist of the station, and J. R. 

 Hall, chemist at the Audubon Park Station, have resigned to engage in com- 

 mercial work. .T. G. Grossenbacker, of the New York State Station, has been 

 appointed plant pathologist of the liaton Rouge Station. 



The Audubon Park Station, with the assistance of the New Orleans Park 

 Commission, has succeeded in producing more than one hundred seedling sugar 

 canes during the past year, some of which made remarkable growth. The cut- 

 tings are now being planted for the next year's crop. 



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