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New York Corxell Station.— A live-stock judging pavilion is now under con- 

 struction. The judging room will be 26 by 36 ft., and will greatly facilitate the prac- 

 tical work with animals, and incidentally the building will be available for other uses. 



North Carolina Station. — Franklin Sherman, jr.. who for some time has been 

 employed as entomologist to the State department of agriculture, has been placed 

 upon the station staff as entomologist. Nineteen head of thoroughbred Aljerdeen 

 Angus cattle were purchased in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, during the past 

 summer and are now being inoculated by the veterinarian of the station, preparatory 

 to sending out to farmers in different parts of the State for whom the purchases were 

 made. Thirty-nine head of the same breed of cattle were purchased in Missouri the 

 past winter and inoculated against Texas fever. A portion of these animals were 

 also obtained for farmers, the rest being purchased for the use of the station and the 

 State department of agriculture. 



Pennsylvania Station. — Thorne M. Carpenter, recently of the Massachusetts Sta- 

 tion, Leonard R. Cook, of Purdue University, and H. L. Wilson, of the University of 

 Virginia, have been appointed assistant chemists of the station, vice M. S. McDowell, 

 C. W. Norris, and N. W. Buckhout, whose resignations have been previously noted. 



Tennessee Station. — A new two-story barn, 20 by 48 ft., has just been completed 

 iit a cost of about ?!400. This l^arn is intended for cattle feeding under the conditions 

 prevailing on farms in Tennessee, and is designed especially for experiments with 

 stock cattle to be fed on cheap rough fodder and a light grain ration, and finished on 

 irrass the following summer. The barn contains 4 pens, 12 by 14 ft., calculated to 

 accommodate 4 lots of 4 cattle each, and has ample storage space above for the rough 

 fodders. The pens connect with an open air yard so that the cattle can be turned 

 out in good weather. In a barn previously erected 16 head of cattle will be fed on a 

 heavy grain and silage ration during this winter and finished for the April market. 

 The object of this experiment, and those provided for in the new barn, is to determine 

 whether the farmers of Tennessee should winter feed their cattle and finish them for 

 the spring market, or carry them through the winter on a cheap ration and finish on 

 grass for the autumn market. During the present winter the station will have more 

 than 100 liead of beef and dairy cattle, horses, mules, she3p, and swine, on feeding 

 experiments. 



U. S. Department of Ac;riculture. — A. S. Hitchcock, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has been spending some time in Europe, studying especially the sand- 

 binding grasses and their management in Holland, Belgium, France, and Germany. 

 He will return about January 1. A. D. Ho])kins has returned from an extended trip 

 to Arizona, southern California, northern Idalio, the Puget Sound country, and the 

 Black Hills, where he has been studying the damage done to timber by insects. 



Miscellaneous. — During the past season the North Carolina State board of agri- 

 culture has continued field experiments at two substations or test farms in the two 

 ends of the coastal-plain section of the State, the tests being with fertilizers, culture 

 methods, rotations, and varieties of corn, cotton, and peanuts; fertilizer tests with 

 bright tobacco, and an experiment in growing Cuban tobacco on bright tobacco soils. 

 Some cooperative work has also been done in testing varieties of corn and cotton 

 which have been found by previous experiments at these farms to give good results, 

 and the work at the farms has been supplemented by laboratory work. A third farm 

 has been established on the red clay land in the Piedmont section, and ex])erimental 

 work will be taken up on this farm next spring. These farms are maintained exclu- 

 sively with the funds of the State board of agriculture. 



H. M. ('ottrell, formerly of the Kansas College and Station, is now professor of 

 agriculture in Ruskin College, located at Trenton, Mo. Ruskin College is the central 

 institution of a number of cooperative associations of which Walter Yrooman is the 



