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Arkansas University and Station.— C4. L. Teller has resigned his position to 

 take charge of the chemical work in Chidlow Institute of Milling and Baking Tech- 

 nology, recently established in Chicago by David Chidlow, who was formerly chem- 

 ist to the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company, of Minneapolis. 



Idaho University and Station.— The State legislature has made an appropria- 

 tion of $14,000 to finish the university building and $20,000 for maintenance. This 

 is the largest appropriation ever made by the State for the support of the university. 

 A very successful series of farmers' institutes have been held in the State this winter 

 under the direction of H. T. French, agriculturist of the station. This work is of 

 very great value, inasmuch as the conditions affecting agricultural operations vary 

 so much in different parts of the State. It is the first organization of farmers' insti- 

 tutes in the State. The agriculturist will make a special study of forage plants 

 this season. 



Illinois University and Station.— The term of office of the following members 

 of the board of trustees of the university has expired: J. Irving Pearce, Samuel M. 

 Inglis, Napoleon B. Morrison, James F. Armstrong, and Isaac S. Raymond. In their 

 stead have been elected the following: W. H. Fulkerson, of Jersey ville, ex officio 

 trustee, as president of the State Board of Agriculture; Alfred Bayliss, of Spring- 

 field, ex officio trustee, as State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Mrs. Alice A. 

 Abbott, of Chicago; Frederick L. Hatch, of Spring Grove; and Augustus F. Night- 

 ingale, of Chicago. The board of trustees has appointed the following as members 

 of the advisory board of the station : W. H. Fulkerson and F. L. Hatch (trustees) 

 and Henry Augustine, of Normal, rice E. A. Riehl. 



Indiana Station. — W. B. Anderson has resigned his position as assistant agri- 

 culturist of the station and retired to his farm at Otwell, Indiana, which he is to 

 manage in the future. The vacancy has been filled by the appointment of J. H. 

 Skinner, B. Sc, a graduate of the School of Agriculture of Purdue University. 



Kansas College and Station. — W. H. Phipps, recently a member of the board 

 of regents, has become secretary of the, college and station. The following new 

 members of the board of regents have been appointed for the term ending April 1, 

 1903: William Hunter, of Blue Rapids; J. M. Satterthwaite, of Douglass, and E.T. 

 Fairchild, of Ellsworth. In addition to the appropriatious previously noted (E. S. R., 

 10, p. 799) the State legislature has appropriated $16,500 for additional buildings and 

 equipment for the mechanical department, $4,000 for the enlargement of the library, 

 and $2,000 for farmers' institutes. The station has issued a press bulletin on soy 

 beans, which has attracted considerable attention. 



Ohio Station. — On April 11 the station killed 12 cattle which had been under 

 experiment with the tuberculin test for periods varying from a few months to nearly 

 two years. Several hundred people were present, many coming from distant parts 

 of the State. Perhaps the most conspicuous outcome of the experiment was the 

 demonstration that when the tuberculin test is applied iu season, afl'ected cattle 

 may be fattened and disposed of for beef long before the disease has become so 

 generalized as to render their meat unsafe for food. Repeated injections of tuber- 

 culin seemed to have had a retarding rather than an accelerating effect upon the 

 progress of the disease. 



South Carolina College and Station. — The board of trustees at their last 

 regular meeting took the initiatory steps looking to a permauant and complete 

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