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accommodate r.n equal number of young cattle. The college lias ])egun the erection 

 of a girls' dormitory to cost |i60,000. 



]\Iaixe Station. — The station council has recently been enlarged by the appoint- 

 ment of a meml)er from the State Dairymen's Association, Entilus Alden, of Win- 

 tiirop, Me. 



Maryland College and Station. — C. F.Austin, of the Alabama Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed associate horticulturist to succeed E. P. Sandsten, who has 

 resigned to go to Wisconsin. 



Massachusetts Station. — Thorne M. Carpenter, recently appointed assistant in 

 the department of foods and feeding, has resigned to accept a position at the Penn- 

 sylvania Station. 



Missouri Station. — E. L. Shaw, B. S. (Ohio State University), has been appointed 

 assistant in agriculture to the station, vice T. I. Mairs. 



Montana College and Station. — For some months past tests for salicylic acid in 

 various fresh fruits have been carried on in the chemical laboratory by F. W. Trap- 

 hagen and p]dmund Burke, with the result of showing the almost constant presence 

 of this acid in extremely small quantity. It is has been found in the following fruits, 

 among others: Strawberries, raspberries — both red and black, blackberries, currants, 

 plums, black cherries, apricots, peaches, Concord grapes, apples, crab apples, and 

 oranges; and also in tomatoes, cauliflower, and string lieans. In a few instances 

 quantitative determinations have been made. The amount found in currants, for 

 example, was 0.57 mg. per kilo of fruit, in cherries 0.40, in plums 0.28, in crab apples 

 0.24, and in grapes 0.32 mg. These values are not regarded as absolute, but represent 

 the amounts which have been extracted. This work is thought to have an important 

 bearing particularly on the investigations of food chemists. F. B. Linfield, of the 

 Utah College and Station, has been elected jjrofessor of agriculture in the college and 

 agriculturist of the station, to succeed Eobert S. Shaw. Professor Linfield will enter 

 upon his new duties November 1. A frame dairy building, 24 bj' 44 ft. and two 

 stories high, is nearly cijmpleted. The lower floor will be used for butter and cheese 

 making, the dairy having a capacity of about 1,000 gal. of milk a day, and the 

 upper floor will "be used for class rooms. The equipment is on the ground and will 

 be installed as soon as the building is completed. The cost of the building is about 

 $2,500, the amount appropriated by the last legislature. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Henry B. Slade, assistant chemist of the 

 station, has recently been elected chemist of the Idaho Station. Samuel Avery has 

 been appointed professor of agricultural chemistry and chemist of the station. Tiie 

 university has added a course in forestry, to be opened this year. It is four years 

 in length, and the conditions for admission are the same as to other courses of the- 

 university. 



Nevada University and Station. — Gordon H. True, of Arizona University and 

 Station, has been elected to the chair of animal husbandry in this university and 

 station. 



New Mexico Station. — Popular interest in the experimental work of irrigating 

 from wells is increasing and is reported greater than in any former work v.hich the 

 station has undertaken. The work of the station so far as it has been carried shows 

 that in the Messilla Valley at least the amount of underground water available is 

 much greater than was previously considered possible. This water is of good 

 quality for irrigation and is reached at a depth of 20 ft. and lower. A well 48 ft. 

 deep and supplied with a 6-in. pipe has yielded a steady flow of a little more 

 than 800 gal. a minute, which was maintained for a continuous run of 30 hours 

 with no apparent diminution in the available supply. Using wood at a cost of $2.25 

 a cord, it was found that the cost of irrigating land with an amount of water suffi- 

 cient to cover it 3 in. deep amounted to about 58^ cts. an acre. A series of tests 



