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Ii>Aiit> University and Station. — Herbert T, Condon has been dieted registrar 

 and accountant of the university and station. 



Michigan Station. — The average yield of sugar beets on the station grounds is 

 12.93 tons per acre; the average percentage of sugar, 13.72. The results of coopera- 

 tive experiments are being worked out. The factory at Bay City is in successful 

 operation, with 3,000 acres of beets to work up. Experiments to test the value of 

 beet pulp for cows, beef cattle, and sheep are planned for next winter. The year's 

 record with a grade dairy herd of 29 cows has been completed. The average milk 

 yield of the cows, rejecting one accidentally injured and another condemned as 

 tuberculous, was 7,008 lbs. The fat yield averaged 257.57 lbs. The net profit from 

 the herd, including in the expenses the cost of the care and milking as well as the 

 food, but not crediting the value of the 200 tons of manure made, was $277.50. 



New Yokk State Station. — Firman Thompson, assistant chemist at the station, 

 has resigned his position to accept an appointment under Dr. Walter Maxwell at 

 the Hawaiian Experiment Station and Laboratories. If. A. Harding, bacteriologist 

 of the station, assumed active duty January 1, 1809. 



Vermont Station. — At the recent session of the legislature of Vermont three 

 bills were passed which affect and add to the work of the station. (1) A bill appro- 

 priating $1,000 annually toward the printing of the station report; (2) a bill regu- 

 lating the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, being similar in its nature 

 to the law which has been in force for something over a year in the State of Maine; 

 (3) a bill requiring that the correctness of all Babcock glassware in use at cream- 

 eries and cheese factories for dividend making shall be certified, and that all opera- 

 tors of the Babcock test for dividend making shall be duly licensed, the licenses to 

 be issued upon demonstration of their ability properly to operate the test. The 

 execution of the latter law is placed in the hands of the superintendent of the dairy 

 school. 



Personal. — In connection with the death of the late Col. George E. Waring, jr., 

 formerly commissioner of street cleaning in New r York City, it is interesting to note 

 his interest in agriculture and his services and writings during his earlier life. As 

 early as 1853 Colonel Waring studied scientific agriculture under Dr. James J. Mapes, 

 one of the pioneer agricultural chemists of the country, and in 1855 he assumed the 

 management of Horace Greeley's famous farm at Chappaqna, New York. After tho 

 civil war he removed to Newport, Rhode Island, where for 10 years he had charge 

 of the Ogden farm, and during this time wrote the interesting Ogdeu Farm Papers 

 for the American Agriculturist. In 1868 he originated the American Jersey Cattle 

 Club, the first American association of its kind to publish its own herd book, of 

 which he was the secretary and editor of the Herd Book until 1882. In 1870 ho 

 introduced the Trophy tomato, which marked the beginning of the successful pro- 

 duction of the tomato for shipping and canning. He traveled through Holland, 

 Normandy, Brittany, and the Channel Islands studying the agriculture of these 

 countries, and as a result introduced into this country the Swartz system of cold 

 deep setting of milk, which was the forerunner of the present -y»tems of deep setting. 

 Among his published agricultural works are the following: Elements of Agriculture 

 (1854), Drainage for Profit and Drainage lor Health (1868), The Handy Book of 

 Husbandry (1869), The Sanitary Draining of Houses and Farms . 1874 '. A Farmer's 

 Vacation: Travels in Holland, Normandy, Brittany, and the Channel Islands (1875), 

 Sewage and Land Drainage (1889). and Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal (1891). 



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