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Alabama College and Station. — C. C. Thach, president of the college, has been 

 made acting director of the station. E. S. Mackintosh, assistant horticulturist of 

 the Minnesota Station, has been elected professor of horticulture in the college, and 

 horticulturist of the station. The department of horticulture has been separated 

 irom that of biolog)^ and the chair made a full professorship. The greenhouses are 

 being repaired, and improvements made in other station buildings. 



Colorado College and Station. — At a recent meeting of the State board of agri- 

 culture Miss Theodosia G. Amnions, professor of domestic economy, was made dean 

 of women's work in the college. W. R. Thomas has resigned from the board to 

 become professor of constitutional and irrigation law. J. S. Titcomb, former deputy 

 State engineer, has been made assistant in the department of irrigation engineering. 

 A new department of electrical engineering has been established, and L. D. Crain, 

 instructor in mechanical engineering, has been made professor. The course will be 

 opened with the next college year, beginning September first. A new building, to 

 be a central heating plant and also to contain rooms for the department of electrical 

 engineering, is being constructed. An enlargement of the main building, giving 

 increased seating capacity in the chapel, has been provided for. The State legislature 

 will be asked for an appropriation of $75,000 for a building for the offices of the 

 experiment station and for the department of civil and irrigation engineering. The 

 State board of agriculture has transferred |1,000 from the college funds to the station, 

 for expenditure under the supervision of the director. 



Idaho University and Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of regents 

 H. T. French, agriculturist of the station, was made director. F. A. Huntley, hor- 

 ticulturist of the college and station, has resigned, to take effect January 1, 1903. 



Kansas Station. — The annual report of the station states that during the past 

 fiscal year (1901-2) the station published 7 regular bulletins, in editions of 25,000 

 to 27,000 copies; an index to the bulletins for the year; and 23 press bulletins, the 

 latter in editions varying from 3,600 to 5,000 copies, except in one instance in which 

 17,000 copies were printed. During the year the station commenced operations at 

 the Fort Hays Branch Station, on a part of the old Fort Hays reservation. Fields of 

 sorghum and Kafir corn, sown alone and mixed, barley, macaroni wheats, millet, 

 corn, soy beans, cowpeas, Bromus inermis, alfalfa, Kansas stock melons, peanuts and 

 garvansas, and potatoes were grown, a grass garden with 31 varieties was started, and 

 about three- fourths of an acre set to trees and shrubs sent out by the college. The 

 chief objects of the Fort Hays branch are the testing of plants and hiethods of culture 

 with special reference to the needs of regions having deficient rainfall. In large part 

 these experiments are expected to be upon a rather extensive scale, but performed 

 with careful attention to all details, so as to yield results of scientific accuracy. The 

 cooperative experiments of the station with this Department in the testing and 

 breeding of cereals and in range improvement and forage-plant investigations will be 

 conducted largely at tlie Fort Hays branch. Few of the buildings on the reservation 

 ■could be used when repaired. 

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