NOTES. 



Colorado Collec4E and Station'. — E. D. Ball, assistant in zoology and entomology, 

 has accepted the professorship of biology at the Utah College, and has entered ui^on 

 his new work. Amos Jones, assistant professor of irrigation engineering, has accepted 

 a position in the U. S. Geological Survey. The college and station are planning 

 numerous improvements. A reservoir with an area of 50 acres and an inlet ditch for 

 conducting storm water from an extensive watershed have been under construction 

 during the year. A building for a central heating plant is in course of construction. 

 This building will also be used for a department of electrical engineering. A build- 

 ing for the department of irrigation engineering and to contain the offices of the 

 station is planned. This is to cost about SHO.OOO. An appropriation from the legis- 

 lature will be asked for this purpose. 



Delaware College and Station. — C. O. Houghton, an assistant in the entomo- 

 logical department of Cornell University, has been elected zoologist and entomologist 

 in the college and entomologist to the station, vice E. D. Sanderson, who, as pre- 

 viously noted, has gone to Texas. 



^Michigan College and Statiox. — Dr. R. C. Kedzie, who had ])een connected 

 with the college for nearly forty years and with the station ever since its establish- 

 ment, died November 7, after a short illness. A brief account of his services to agri- 

 culture will be given in the next numl)er. 



OkectON ColleCtE and Station. — The new Agricultural Hall was de<licated with 

 appropriate ceremonies October 15. It is a handsome building of three and a half 

 stories, costing something over. $40,000. It is 125 by 85 ft. and provides 35,000 

 scjuare feet of floor space. On the first floor are the live-stock judging room, 40 ft. 

 square, and the dairy department. The latter includes a main workroom 24 by 44 

 ft., provided with modern apparatus for the manufacture of butter and cheese, a 

 testing laljoratory 24 by 40 ft., which will also be equipped for jiasteurizing in the 

 near future, two commodious cheese-curing rooms, class room, office, boiler and 

 engine room, etc. The second floor has a large hall to be used as an assembly room 

 for conventions and for special lectures to students in agriculture. The office of the 

 station director, fireproof vault for records, a spacious class room for general agricul- 

 ture, and laboratories for soil physics and bacteriology are also located on this floor. 

 A special bacteriological laboratory for station work is provided. The departments 

 of horticulture, entomology, and botany are located on the third floor. Here pro- 

 vision is made for both the instruction and experimental work, there being a num- 

 ber of separate rooms for the station laboratories and collections. The entire south 

 wing of the building, including the three stories, is devoted to ehemistrj'. Here 

 also special provision has been made for the station work, with separate storage 

 rooms, laboratories, balance rooms, dark room, office of the station chemist, etc. 

 The upper floor will be used as a general museum. The building will add greatly 

 to the facilities of the institution for instruction in agriculture and for the work of 

 the experiment station whose departments were previously somewhat scattered. 

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