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Iowa College and Station. — P. T. Barnes, late of the New York State station, 

 has been placed in charge of the greenhouses. His time is divided between instruc- 

 tion and experimental work. The unusual cold of last winter, coupled with the 

 light snowfall in central and southern Iowa, has caused great damage to nursery 

 stock. This injury has come in the form of what is known to nurserymen as "root 

 killing." In the college nurseries as well as iu private nurseries thousands of trees 

 have been killed and thousands badly injured. In the case of piece-root apple 

 grafts the injury is confined mainly to that part of the root below the union of the 

 scion and stock. Where roots have developed from the scion they are usually in 

 good condition. 



Texas College. — Fred W. Mally, M. Sc, of Hulen, Tex., has been elected professor 

 of entomology in the college. He will make the boll weevil the primary subject of 

 investigation. 



Washington College and Station. — Plans and specifications have been adopted 

 for the construction and equipment of Science Hall, to cost $60,000. This building 

 will provide quarters for the departments of botany, zoology, bacteriology, agricul- 

 ture, horticulture, veterinary science, and geology, and the third story will be 

 devoted to museums. Each department will have a professor's office, a lecture room, 

 and from one to three laboratories. The building will be of pressed brick with 

 stone trimmings, 170 feet long by 80 feet deep, and three stories high. Ferry Hall, 

 the boys' dormitory, will also be built, at a cost of $40,000. It will provide for 

 from 175 to 200 students. David A. Brodie, a graduate of the college, has been 

 chosen superintendent of the substation at Puyallup, which has been opened at 

 State expense. 



Agricultural College and Experimental Farm for Nova Scotia. — An act 

 passed at the last session of the provincial legislature authorizes the purchase of 

 land for an agricultural college and experimental farm and the erection of suitable 

 buildings, appropriating $20,000 for the purpose. The college will take the place of 

 the provincial agricultural school at Truro and the horticultural school at Wolfville. 

 The grant for the maintenance of the horticultural school is to be discontinued with 

 the establishment of the new institution. The agricultural school building at Truro 

 was destroyed by fire in March, 1898, and considerable opposition has developed to 

 the establishment of the college at that place. Its location has not yet been decided 

 upon, but there is said to be a tacit understanding that it will be located in Kings 

 County, in the western part of the province. The old agricultural school aimed to 

 provide courses of instruction for farmers' sons, a general science course for the 

 normal-school pupils, and to train agricultural teachers, who would receive $100 a 

 year additional from the government for teaching elementary agricultural science 

 in the public schools. The work of the new agricultural college is to be confined to 

 courses in agriculture for farmers' sons, and a science school for the teaching of 

 science to the normal-school pupils is to be established at Truro, where the normal 

 school is located. It is expected that the new institution will be more strictly an 

 agricultural school than a college. 

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