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Massachusetts College and Station. — During the past year the greenhouse of 

 the station has been materially altered. A new hot-water heater has been put in, 

 and 3 ranges of houses have been built to be heated at different temperatures. 

 These consist of a loan-to 25 by 25 ft. with a southern exposure and heated for 

 cucumbers and tomatoes. The beds in this house are 2| by 18 ft. and run East and 

 "West in tiers. There is also a lettuce house 12 by 40 ft. with earth beds, and a 

 propagating house 12 by 18 ft. for general experimental purposes where a high 

 temperature, is not required. These houses have all been constructed with a view 

 to getting the most uniform and normal conditions for physiological experiments. 

 The appropriation for these changes was $1,500. In the horticultural department 

 of the college and station an appropriation of $1,000 was made to remodel 2 green- 

 houses. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Tbe following changes have been made in 

 the governing board: E. Yon Forell, of Kearney, has been appointed, vice C. W. 

 Kaley, and George F. Keuower, of Wisner, vice E. A. Hadley. 



New York State Station. — H. A. Harding, of the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been elected dairy bacteriologist of the station. He will spend tbe present year in 

 study in this country and Europe and will assume his duties ou January 1, 1899. 

 George A. Smith, former director of farmers' institutes in Xew York and at present 

 one of tbe dairy experts of tbe Xew York State Department of Agriculture, has been 

 elected dairy expert at the station. It is expected that the new biological and 

 dairy building will be ready for occupancy in the early summer of 1898. 



Rhode Island ( Iollege. — A special winter course of study and training in poul- 

 try culture has been successfully completed. The course lasted 4 weeks, beginning 

 January 10, 1898. Instruction was given in zoology, the origin and breeds of fowls, 

 principles of breeding and their application, care and management of fowls, feeding, 

 diseases, construction of poultry buildings and appliances, drainage, records and 

 accounts, etc. The plan was to devote tbe forenoons to lectures and class-room 

 work ; the afternoons to laboratory work and to practice in the carpenter shop, incu- 

 bator house, and brooder house, and to the management, care, and feeding of fowls; 

 the evenings to study, to meetings for discussion, etc. On Saturdays excursions 

 were made to different poultry farms, markets, cold-storage establishments, etc. 

 Special public lectures were planned. No entrance examinations were required, but 

 examinations were held dering and at the close of the course, on the basis of which 

 certificates were awarded according to merit. The school was attended by 8 regular 

 and as many more irregular students. Two of the regular attendants were women. 

 Besides Rhode Island, pupils came from "New York, Xew Jersey, and Massachusetts. 



Texas College. — L. S. Ross, president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College of Texas, died January 3, 1898. 



Ii aii (Or. lege and Station. — U. P. Hedrick, formerly of the Oregon College 

 and Station, has been elected horticulturist and botanist of the college and station, 

 to succeed F. C. Sears, resigned. The latter has become director of the School of 

 Horticulture at \Yolfville, Nova Scotia. 

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