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liigli-school graduates desiriug a iliore thorough preparation for farm work 

 than cau be secured iu the short courses. At least mouths' practical farm 

 experience is to be required before the completion of either the two-year or 

 the four-j-ear course. 



■ Buildings have recently been completed for the departments of agronomy anrt 

 agricultural engineering. The agronomy building, 48 by 96 ft., is a two-storj' 

 and basement structure containing a large storage room for seeds and grains, 

 a corn-curing room, in which seed corn is tire dried, a grain-sampling room, a 

 lai'ge, well-lighted corn and grain judging room, and offices. The agricultural 

 engineering building is 50 by 150 ft., three stories high, and contains three 

 large testing laboratories, a cement laboratory, two drafting rooms, and several 

 class, demonstration, and recitation rooms and offices. A large power elevator 

 renders convenient the handling of heavy machinery. Both buildings are of 

 fireproof construction, of reinforced concrete and brick, with tile roofs. The 

 greenhouses of the department of soils have been entirely rebuilt the past 

 fall, and are now available for purposes of instruction and research work. 

 A new stave silo has l)een added to the facilities of the department of animal 

 husbandry for the production of summer silage. 



Enos I.loyd-Jones. of Spring- Green, has been appointed to the board ■ of 

 regents, vice .James Lloyd-Jones, deceased. W. R. Block, a graduate of the 

 Illinois I'niversity, has been appointed assistant in farm engineering, and 

 C. S. Knight, who resigned to accept a position as assistant in agronomy at 

 the Kansas College, has been succeeded by George S. Hine. 



The station is continuing its wlucational campaign against bovine tubercu- 

 losis, and is now holding post-mortem demonstrations at State and county 

 fairs, farmers' institutes, and other gatherings of farmers. Allimals which 

 have been tested and found to react are exhibited, after which a post-mortem 

 examination demonstrates the fact that tlie disease may be well advanced 

 although no physical symptoms are apparent. In this way thousands of 

 voluntary tests are being secured in all portions of the State, such tests being 

 most frequently conducted by students in the various classes (long and short 

 farmers' courses), who are given specific instruction in the manner of applica- 

 tion of the test. Tuberculin is furnished free of charge on condition that a 

 rej)ort of the test be sent to the station. An interpretation of the results of 

 the test is then submitted to the owner, and reacting animals disposed 

 of by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. This movement has resulted in 

 lio]tularizing the tuberculin test very rapidly throughout the State, and from 

 data already at hand it is very evident that the disease is rapidly being brought 

 under control. 



Experimental Farms Proposed for Congressional Districts. — At the eighteenth 

 annual convention of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, held at Musko- 

 gee, Okla., November 19-22, 1907, a memorial to Congress was adopted request- 

 ing the establishment and maintenance of an experimental farm and forest 

 station in each Congressional district, where practicable, in the States and 

 Territories west of the Mississippi River, the land to be provided by the com- 

 munity free of cost to the Government. The memorial also provides that 

 the land-grant colleges may establish and manage like farms and stations. 



An Agricultural Commission for Cuba. — Provisional Governor Magoon, of 

 Cuba, has appointed a commission of 14, headed by Rafael Fernandez de Castro, 

 president of the Agrarian League of the island, to draft and submit a law for 

 the ameliorati(m of agricultural conditions in Cuba. 



American Society of Agricultural Engineers. — At a meeting held at the I'ni- 

 versity of Wisconsin in December, 1907, the American Society of Agricultural 

 Engineers was organized, and officers chosen as follows: J. B. Davidson, of 



