NOTES. 



Arizona Station. — A new office building, costing $340, has been erected at the 

 substation at Phrenix. Attention is being given to the introduction of plants not 

 indigenous to that section, the testing of new varieties of fruits, and especially the 

 date palm, which promises success. The growing and fattening of live stock has 

 been taken up. The result of sugar-beet experiments indicates that beets of high 

 quality may be grown far south of the usually accepted region for first-class beets. 

 Inoculation experiments have been made with the crown knot of fruit trees, showing 

 its ability to spread by this means. 



Montana College and Station. — E. V. Wilcox has resigned his position as 

 zoologist and entomologist in the college and station, to take effect April 1, 1899, 

 and has accepted a position in the Office of Experiment Stations of this Department, 

 vice F. C. Kenyon, resigned. Dr. Wilcox will have charge of the departments of 

 zoology, entomology, and veterinary science of the Experiment Station Record. 

 John M. Robinson and Walter S. Hartmau, both of Bozeman, have been appointed 

 on the executive board, rice Nelson Story and Walter Cooper, whose terms have 

 expired. 



New Mexico College and Station.— C. A. Keffer, of the Division of Forestry 

 of this Department, has been appointed agriculturist>and horticulturist in the college 

 and station. He will enter upon his new duties in the early spring. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — G. E. Voorhees, formerly superintendent 

 of the National Farm School of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, has been employed as 

 temporary instructor in agricultural chemistry during the absence of Prof. William 

 Frear at the farmers' institutes. Much interest is being manifested at various 

 farmers' institutes in the work of the station and school of agriculture, and numer- 

 ous applications for reports and bulletins are constantly beiug received. 



South Carolina Station. — The board of trustees at a receut meeting ordered 

 the college farm divorced from the experiment station. A short bulletin has just 

 been prepared for the purpose of encouraging cooperative experimental work among 

 the farmers, especially among the auxiliary experiment clubs organized under the 

 auspices of the farmers' institutes last summer. 



Mi.sc kllaneous. — Memorial services for the late Senator Justin S. Morrill were 

 held in both branches of Congress February 22. Several addresses were delivered, 

 which, together with the report of the funeral services held in the Senate Chamber 

 and at Montpelier, Vt., are published in the Congressional Record for that date. 

 The executive committee of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations, at a recent meeting held in Washington, voted to recommend 

 that all land-grant colleges observe April 14, next, Senator Morrill's birthday, with 

 appropriate services in his honor. They also voted to invite President Buckham, 

 of the University of Vermont, to prepare a set of resolutions to be presented at the 

 next convention of the association, and President Atherton, of Pennsylvania State 

 College, to present an address on Senator Morrill's life work in the interests of the 

 education of the industrial classes. 



Dr. C.G. Gibelli, professor of botany and director of the Botanic Institute of the 

 University of Turin, died September 16, 1898. 



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