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assistant in liorticnlture ; Henry Jaclison Moore, as gardener of tlie horticultural 

 department ; Walter G. Krum, superintendent in the poultry department ; Burton 

 W. vSomers, assistant in poultry husbandry ; Scott H. Perky, research assistant 

 in rural economy ; and A. J. Lamoreux, librarian. 



A general reunion of agricultural students was held during farmers' weels, 

 Fetnuiry 17-22. The programme included special exercises, the State poultry 

 institute, and meetings of the State experimenters' league. 



North Carolina State Station. — An additional experimental farm consisting of 

 about 300 acres has been obtained near Asheville, in the Swannanoa Valley, 

 which will be used for the demonstration of crops now generally grown or 

 believed to be suitable to the mountain sections of the State, and for determin- 

 ing the plant food requirements of crops on these soils. 



S. O. Clapp has been appointed nursery and orchard inspector, and ^. B. 

 Shaw, at one time assistant horticulturist of the Maryland Station, has been 

 appointed assistant horticulturist. 



North Dakota College and Station. — The traction engine short course held at 

 the college early in January was attended by about 400 young men, who were 

 given practical work in operating and repairing traction engines and other farm 

 machinery. During the past season 12 demonstration farms of from 20 to 24 

 acres have been operated under a State appropriation of $7,500, chiefly to 

 show the advantages of crop rotation, clover growing, and the use of manures. 

 About 2 acres were tile-drained as a further test of the feasibility of this prac- 

 tice in the Red River Valley. A seed house with I'oot cellar, and a granary 

 will be erected this sununer, State appropriations of $10,000 and $0,000 being 

 available for the respective purposes. 



Ohio Station. — Dr. W. I. Chamberlain, of Hudson, has been appointed to the 

 board of control, vice D. D. White, and John Courtright has been reappointed. 



The message of Governor Harris to the State legislature recommended an in- 

 creased appropriation for the station. The State Association of Millers and 

 Grain Dealers desires experiments in milling and baking, and the State Dairy 

 Association favors the establishment of a model dairy farm. The work of the 

 station in forestry is summarized and highly commended. 



Oklahoma College. — "Press reports state that J. H. Counell, editor of Farm 

 and Ranch and director of the Texas Station from 1895 to 1902, has been 

 elected president to succeed Dr. A. C. Scott in June. 



Oregon College and Station. — At a meeting of the board of regents, January 

 10, elementary courses in agriculture, mechanic arts, domestic science, and com- 

 merce were established. The standard of the degree courses was raised one 

 year, and professorships were established in veterinary science and industrial 

 pedagogy. The expenditure of $25,000 for improvements and equipment was 

 authorized, part of this sum being for work in poultry husbandry and agron- 

 omy and for the construction of feeding sheds for the experimental feeding of 

 beef cattle and sheep. 



Washington Station. — At the suggestion of members of the station staff, the 

 State convention of wheat growers, recently held at Pullman, adopted a plan 

 for the organization of a seed breeders' association, similar in plan and scope 

 to the Canadian Seed Breeders' Association. 



Wisconsin University and Station.— The faculty has recently authorized a 

 radical revision of the four-year course in agriculture by introducing agricul- 

 tural studies into the first two years instead of confining these years to work 

 in general science. A two-year course in agriculture is to be established, to 

 be known as the middle course. The entrance requirements will be the same 

 as for the four-year course, but the student will^ substitute distinctively agri- 

 cultural subjects for German and mathematics. The course is designed for 



