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Alabama College .Station. — At the meeting of the board of trustees in June 

 P. H. Mell was elected director of the station, and C. F. Baker, assistant zoologist, 

 was given eighteen months' leave of absence, beginning January 1, 1899, to visit 

 South America on a collecting expedition. Farmers' institutes were authorized 

 under the control of the station council and Dr. C. A. Cary, veterinarian, was placed 

 in charge of the work. An appropriation was made to defray expenses. 



Georgia Station. — The station has commenced to experiment this year in sugar- 

 beet culture, and is continuing experiments on the use of lime upon dry and wet 

 soils, the latter being hrst underdrained. On the dry soils so far no results are 

 apparent from the use of lime applied last fall. 



Illinois Station. — The station is cooperating with the Illinois State Sugar Beet 

 Growers' Association, which was formed at the time of the sugar beet convention 

 called by the station. Arrangements have been made for the publication of brief 

 circulars upon various topics, issued in small numbers, and sent to the press of the 

 State. These circulars serve sometimes to distribute information and sometimes to 

 collect information from the people, and are proving of great value to the station 

 work, 



Kentucky Station. — The board of control has been reorganized as follows: 

 Chairman, Hart Boswell, Lexington; J. T. Gathright, Louisville; Thomas Todd, 

 Shelbyville; James K. Patterson, Lexington, and secretary, M. A. Scovell. Lexington. 

 A recent enactment of the legislature gives the station the supervision of the pure- 

 food law of the State. 



Maine Station. — The new poultry plant, consisting of a breeding house 150 ft. 

 long and a winter brooding house 60 ft. long, was completely destroyed by fire May 

 18, involving a loss of about $1,500. 



Maryland College and Station. — H. J. Patterson has been elected director of 

 the station, vice R. H. Miller, resigned. The State legislature has appropriated 

 $14,000 for the erection of a Science Hall, to be used jointly by the college and sta- 

 tion. It has also appropriated $10,000 for inaugurating State work iu entomology 

 and vegetable pathology, and provided for an annual appropriation hereafter of 

 $8,000 for its maintenance. C. O. Townseudhas been elected botanist and pathologist 

 in the college aud station and State pathologist. 



New Mexico Station. — On June 17 the barn at the Las Vegas Substation was 

 struck by lightning and completely destroyed, together with all its contents. The 

 loss is estimated to be about $2,500, excluding about $600 worth of property belong- 

 ing to the superintendent. The station carried an insurance of $1,500 on the barn 

 and property. 



North Carolina Station. — George S. Fraps, a graduate of North. Carolina Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and of Johns Hopkins University, has been 

 appointed assistant chemist of the station. 



North Dakota College and Station. — The board of trustees of the North Dakota 

 Agricultural College have decided to discontinue the dormitory system and convert 



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