EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



Arkansas Station*. — The following appointments have recently been ma<le tn fill 

 vacancies in the station staff: J. T. Stinson, B. S., horticulturist, vice J. V. McKay; 

 C. L. Newman, B. S., assistant agriculturist at Pine Bluft' Suhstation, vice B. M. 

 Baker; George B. Irby, assistant agriculturist at Newport Substation, vice R. L. 

 Bennett, B. S. 



Kansas Statkix. — F. C. Burtis, B. S., has been appointed assistant agriculturist 

 vice H. M. Cottrcll, M. S. A. S. Hitchcock is in charge of the botanical department 

 of the station, with M. A. Carleton. M.S., as assistant. 



Missouri University. — The main building of the university was destroyed by 

 fire January 9. A large amount of ajiparatus and the entire library were also con- 

 sumed. The total loss is estimated at about $345,000, of which about $1.50,000 was 

 covered by insurance. Tlie State legislature has been convened in extra session to 

 provide means for r»'building. 



The College of Agriculture as reorganized at the beginning of the present college 

 year offers four courses of study, 2-year and 4-year courses for nndergradnates, a 

 post graduate course of 2 years, and a farmers' hcture course (tf 3 months. The 

 last includes lectures on agriculture; breeds, breeding, and feeding of animals; agri- 

 cultural chemistry; economic botany and entomology ; practical horticulture; and 

 veterinary science. 



North Carolina Station. — The following act for the protection of seed buyers 

 wa« passed by the State legislature last year: 



"The General Assembly of North Carcdina do enact: 



" Section 1. That ;my person or persons doing business in this State, who shall si-ll 

 seed or offer for sale any vegetable or garden seed that are not ]>lainly marked upon 

 each package or bag coutaiuing such seed the year in wliidi said sied were grown, 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof sliall be fined 

 not less than ten dollars or more than fifty dollar.s. or imprisoned not more than thirty 

 days for each and every offense: Provided, Tliat the provisions of this act shall not 

 apply to farmers selling seed i]) open Imlk to other farmers or gardeners. 



"Section 2. That any peixtm or persons who Mhall, with iiitentiitn to deceive, 

 wrongly mark or not label as to date juiy paekiige or bag containing ganlen f>r vege- 

 table seed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof sliall be 

 fined nut less than tin nor more than fifty dollars, or impris«ined not less than ten 

 nor more than tliirty days. 



" Section 3. That this act shall be in force from and after tlie first day of September, 

 1891. 



" Ratified March 5, 1891." 



BuRKAT OF Animal lNi>rsTRV. — The liver fiuke de8cril»ed by Francis in Bulletin 

 No. 18 of the Texas Station, for whieii the name Dinfomiim tuoniciim is proposed, is 

 considered by Dr. C. \V. Stiles identical with Fa^ciola americana, Ha«sall, which is 

 probably the same as the Distomum magnum described some years ago by Bassi (Amer. 

 Vet. Rer., March, 1S92). 



Queensland. — Bulletin-No. 12, November, 1891, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Brisbane, contains an article on butter and cheese making liy J. Mahon. Bulletins 

 Nos. 4, October, 1890; No. 7, March, 1891; No. 9, M"ay, 1891; and No. 13, December, 

 1891, contain descriptive notes on a considerable nuuiber of species of plants found 

 in Queensland, l»y F. M. Bailey, tho colonial botanist, 

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