800 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



remainder of the fiscal year, to enter the service of the State Department of Agri- 

 culture. In accordance with the act of the General Assembly of 1899, on July 1 

 next the analytical work of the fertilizer control will be performed by the chemist 

 of the State Department of Agriculture and not in connection with the station. On 

 July 1, therefore, the fertilizer control division of the station will be discontinued. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The following appointments have been made 

 on the board of regents: Jas. P. Gaudy, of Alva, vice B. S. Barnes, late president of 

 the board, and J. D. Ballard, of Weatherford, vice R. J. Edwards. P. J. Wykoff, of 

 .Stillwater, has been elected president, and C. J. Benson, of Shawnee, has been 

 reelected treasurer of the board. The State legislature has made appropriations 

 approximating $30,000 for buildings and equipment and about $8,000 for mainte- 

 nance of the college for the next two years. It is expected that these sums will be 

 appropriated in such ways as to considerably increase the facilities for work by the 

 station staff. 



Texas College and Station. — A bill has recently passed the State legislature 

 providing for a State entomologist to study the cotton boll worm and other insect 

 pests of the State and to give instruction in entomology at the college. An appro- 

 priation of #5,000 is made for salaries and other expenses. 



Vermont Station. — W. C. Norcross has been succeeded by G. W. Strong as 

 dairyman. 



West Virginia University and Station. — The Mechanical Hall of the univer- 

 sity was destroyed by fire March 4, together with the valuable equipment which it 

 contained. The building and contents were valued at $40,000. The insurance car- 

 ried on the building was $28,000. The net loss will not exceed $4,600. Arrange- 

 ments for rebuilding are being made. The State legislature has appropriated $5,500 

 for the station, to defray the expense of printing bulletins and reports, purchasing 

 stationery, and office supplies, etc. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The station farm has been increased by 

 the addition of 80 acres of land under the Pioneer Canal, along with the water right 

 for the same. This laud is to be held as the property of the university so long as it 

 is used for experimental purposes. The land is virgin soil, having never been fenced 

 or plowed. It joins the present farm on the south and will be used mainly for some 

 extensive field experiments in irrigation. 



Association of Official Agricultural Chemists.— F. S. Shiver, Clemson Col- 

 lege, South Carolina, is the referee for nitrogen for the coming year, instead of B. L. 

 Hartwell as stated in a former issue (E. S. R., 10, p. 512). 



Necrology. — Dr. Albert Schultz died at Lupitz, Germany, January 5, 1899, at the 

 age of 68 years. He was one of the most prominent agriculturists of Germany, and 

 widely known as the originator of the Schultz-Lupitz system of culture, by which 

 poor, sandy soils are brought to a state of fertility through the combined use of 

 leguminous crops in the rotation and phosphates and potash salts as fertilizers. 

 Schultz-Lupitz was a charter member of the Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Gesell- 

 schaft, and a prolific writer on agricultural subjects. For several years he was a 

 member of the German Reichstag. The utility of his system of culture, especially 

 the importance of legumes in the rotation for the assimilation of the free nitrogen of 

 the air, was demonstrated under bis management on his own lands. His estate was 

 formerly known as the Desert of Lupitz, the soil being a coarse-grained, diluvial 

 sand, destitute of lime and extremely poor iu potash, nitrogen, and phosphoric 

 acid. Through his method of culture the estate was brought to its present high 

 state of fertility. 



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