EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



California Statiox. — Director Hilgard has recently issued a eircnlnr giving prac- 

 tical dii-octioiis for the preparation of fruit specimens for the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. 



Georgia Station. — Cheese making on a commercial scale has heen hegun under 

 direction of the dairyman of the station, H. J. Wing, with a view to extending this 

 industry in Georgia. 



New Jersey Stations. — It is proposed to add information regarding oyster cul- 

 ture to the crop reports of the New Jersey State weather service. 



New York Cornell Station. — An agricultural conference will bo hold at the 

 Uui^■ersity June 10 and 11, 1892, on the invitation of the station. The program is 

 as follows : How can the various societies by coordination do uiore and better work 

 for agriculture? Hon. O. B. Potter and W. C. Gifford; University extension in tJio 

 direction of agriculture, H. H. Wing and F. E. Smith; Legislation in regard to 

 insects and ])lant diseases and recent attempts at nursery legislation, J. H. Comstock 

 and W. C. Barry; How shall the farmers' institutes be made of most value to the 

 State? G. T. Powell and J. Owen; What additional facilities should the university 

 offer? (fl) the special course, I. P. Eoberts; (h) short winter course, J. S. Woodward; 

 (c) short manual summer course, W. F. Rounds; (d) course in floriculture, H. A. Sie- 

 bricht ; Legislation and control of tuberculous cattle, J. Law and E. A. Powell ; 

 How may the experiment station extend its usefulness? N. W. Foster arid L. H. 

 Bailey. 



South Dakota Station. — The report of the Director for 1891, an abstract of which 

 w:|B published in Experimant Station Record, vol. iii, p. 623, was prepared by L. 

 I'oster, instead of by his predecessor, as there stated. 



A Foreign view oe tue American stations. — An account of the agricultural 

 experiment stations in the United States has been issued by Dr. F. Wohltmauu of 

 the University of Halle, in several recent numbers of the Landwirtscltaftliche Thier- 

 zucht. 



Tobacco culture in Alabama. — With a view to encouragiug the growing oi 

 tobacco, the State department of agriculture has distributed seed and issued a bul- 

 letin of information regarding the culture of this crop. 



Kansas Station for experiments with contagious diseases of the chinch 

 BUG. — The First Annual Report of the station for 1891 (pp. 230, plates 4), by its 

 director, F. H. Snow, includes the text ofthe act of the State legislature, approved March 

 4, 1891, under which the station was established ; resumes of the author's observations 

 and experiments on the contagious diseases of the chinch bug in 1888, 1889, and 1890 ; 

 detailed accounts of the laboratory and lield experiments in 1891 under direction of 

 the station; a discussion of the relation between meteorological conditions and the 

 prevalence of the chinch bug and a history of mycrophytous diseases of the chinch 

 bug in the United States. The station is connected with the State I'niversity, 

 located at Lawrence. In 1891 the laboratory experimeuts were begun March 23 by 

 introducing healthy chinch bugs from southern Kansas into jars infected chiefly witli 

 bacteria. In a few days most of the bugs in these jars were dead while otliers in 

 check jars were still alive and healthy. Field experiments indicated that -'the bac- 

 terial infection was not well adapted to the destruction of chincli bugs in the field 

 in the months of April and May, when the nights were cool and sometimes frosty, 



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