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Maryland Station. — C. O. Garner has been elected assistant agriculturist to 

 succeed E. H. Brinkley, and C. F. Doane, a graduate of Kansas Agricultural College 

 and post-graduate of Wisconsin University Dairy Department, Las been appointed 

 assistant in dairying and dairy bacteriology. A new office building and greenhouses 

 for the horticultural department have recently been constructed. 



Massachusetts Hatch Station. — A small dairy building, to cost about $2,000, 

 is being constructed for the station at State expense. It will be used for experi- 

 mental purposes, and especially for studying the effect of different feed stuffs upon 

 the quality (flavor, hardness, etc.) of butter. It is hoped later to take up investiga- 

 tions in dairy bacteriology. The building is of wood, all the outside walls having 

 dead-air spaces, and is 44 ft. long and 21 ft. wide, with an office jutting out from the 

 building 8 by 10 ft. The main building contains an ice house 14 by 20 ft., located 

 at the north end. The general dairy room, situated in the center of the building, is 

 16 by 20 ft. ; the pasteurizing and cream-ripening rooms at the south end are each 

 10 by 12 ft. The general dairy room will contain the milk-receiving vat, separator, 

 churn, and butter worker. The pasteurizer and receiving vat are 3-i ft. above the 

 separator, so that the milk will be carried to the latter by gravity. The floor of 

 the building will be of artificial stone and the walls of adamant plaster, covered with 

 several coatings of enamel paint. Steam will be supplied from a boiler located in 

 the basement of the experiment barn 100 ft. distant. The power for running the 

 separator, churn, and butter worker will be supplied by a water motor, thus doing 

 away with an engine and keeping coal dust, etc., entirely out of the creamery. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — The department of agriculture and 

 horticulture has been divided into two departments. The department of horticul- 

 ture will include the garden, greenhouses, and grounds around the experiment-sta- 

 tion building, and will be in charge of F. M. Rane, horticulturist. The department 

 of agriculture will include the farm, barns, and live stock, and will be in charge 

 of Charles W. Burkett, associate professor of agriculture and agriculturist. 



North Carolina Station. — This station, upon the recommendation of the 

 director and horticulturist, and by order of the board of trustees, has withdrawn 

 from the management of the experimental farm of the North Carolina State Horti- 

 cultural Society, located at Southern Pines, North Carolina. 



Oklahoma Station. — The board of regents has been reorganized as follows: 

 President, B.S.Barnes, Pouca City; treasurer, C. J. Benson, Shawnee; C.M.Barnes, 

 (ex-officio) Guthrie; R. J. Edwards, Oklahoma City; J. C. Tousley, El Reno; and 

 F. J. Wikoff, Stillwater. 



Virginia Station. — Charles McCulloch, a graduate of the American Veterinary 

 College and of the Columbian University, has been appointed assistant veterina- 

 rian, vice F. S. Roop, resigned. 



Washington Station. — S.B.Nelson, veterinarian of the station, has been made 

 secretary to the State Board of Health. 



Wyoming Station. — This station has made a change in the system of its publica- 

 tions. Hereafter the bulletins will be popular accounts of the work of the station 

 and adapted to local needs, while all matters of a technical nature will be published 

 in the annual report. Bulletins will not be sen t outside of the State except on request, 

 but the annual reports, including the bulletins, will be sent to the official list. 



Agriculture of the Philippines. — Lieut. A. P. Hayne, formerly of the Califor- 

 nia University and Station and at present stationed in Manila, has been detailed at 



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