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Alabama Station'.— .1. T. Anderson, Ph. D., h:is been made associate cheiiiist of 

 the station. 



Arizona Station.— Col. J. H. Martin, of Tucson, has been appointed a luemberof 

 the governing board, succeeding E. R. Monk. H. G. Wolfgang, formerly ioreman at 

 the station at Tucson, has been made florist and assistant horticulturist, and F. G. 

 Havens, formerly of Riverside, California, has been made foreman. 



Ohio Station.— The dedicatory exercises of the Ohio Station were held at Wooster, 

 June 3, in the presence of an audience estimated at from 10.000 to 12,000. A number 

 of distinguished guests, including the governor, Asa S. Bushnell ; the Assistant Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, Hon. J. H. Brighani, and others, were pre.sent and took part 

 in the exercises. Among the addresses delivered were "'The Ohio Agricultural 

 Experiment Station: Its history and work," by Assistant Secretary Brighani; ''The 

 educational value of agricultural experiment," by W. I. Chamberlain, and ''The 

 evolution of the experiment station," by E. W. Allen, of this Office. 



Seeds and Plants from Eastern Europk and North Central Asia. — Prof. 

 X. E. Hansen, of the South Dakota Agricultural College, has been appointed by 

 Secretary Wilson siiecial agent to visit eastern Russia, Russian Turkestan, Bokliara, 

 Siberia, east of the province of Irkootsk; Manchooria, and outer Mongolia in north- 

 ern China, for the purpose of making as complete a collection as i»ossible of grasses, 

 cereals, legumes, fruits, and all kinds of farm, tree, shrub, and garden seeds from 

 the very dry and hot semi-desert regions, as well as very cold and dry sections of 

 these countries, with a view to securing hardy plants adapted to the arid sections of 

 the West and the colder regions of the Northwest. 



The Industrial Work of the Seahoaiid An: Link Railroad. — The industrial 

 department of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, whose main line extends from Ports- 

 mouth, Virginia, to Atlanta, Georgia, has organized under the supervision of .Fnhn T. 

 Patrick, chief industrinl agent, a somewhat novel and extensive system of iudiisti iai 

 instruction with a view to encouraging people along the line of the road to improve 

 their methods of farming and to develop certain allied industries, such as canning, 

 dairying, etc., which have hitherto received little or no attention. This work was 

 inaugurated by the selection of local industrial agents who are representative men 

 in the community and serve without pay. These agents directed their elVorts first 

 to stirring up interest in the industrial work of the railroad and to encouraging tree 

 jilanting and village improvement. Prom this beginning has developed fheone day 

 farmers' institutes, or industrial training schools, which have been actively prosecuted 

 during the present summer. For the use of this school a train of cars has been 

 fitted up with improved appliances for canning, preserving, pickling, butter making, 

 tillage of the soil, and road making, and provided with accommodations for the 

 force of instructors accomi)anying the exhibits. This train stops for one day at <lif- 

 ferent small towns along the road. Opportunity is given for examination of the 

 diflerent implements and appliances and their use is explained. Instruction is also 

 given in canning, preserving, etc., to a class of young ladies, and literature relating 

 to improved implements and methods is distributed. Between .lune 28 and July 20 



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