NOTES. 



Alaska Station. — C. C. Georgeson, director, i.s spending a few weeks in Washing- 

 ton. R. W. De Armond, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College and recently 

 a student assistant in horticulture, has been appointed horticulturist, and will be 

 located at Sitka. His appointment will take place April 1. It is planned to make 

 Sitka more especially a horticultural station for experiments with fruit and the prop- 

 agation of plants for distriljution. Ten varieties of apples thought to be specially 

 promising for that locality have been set out, and experiments will be made in graft- 

 ing on the native, crab as a stock. Work will also be carried on in the improve- 

 ment of the native fruits, especially the cranberries, raspberries, and strawberries. 



California University. — J. M. Wilson, assistant professor on irrigation, and in 

 charge of the Pacific Coast division of the irrigation work of this office, died January 

 27, after an illness of several months. 



Idaho University and Station. — Lowell B. Judson, a graduate of Harvard and 

 for two years a special student in horticulture at the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 has been appointed horticulturist of the university and station. 



Illinois University and Station. — Hugh E. Ward, chief assistant in soil )>acteri- 

 ology, died of heart disease December 29. He had been granted a year's leave of 

 absence for study in Europe, but after spending a few weeks at Zurich he was com- 

 pelled by failing health to return home, where he died ten days after his arrival. 



Maryland Station. — T. M. Price, assistant chemist of the station, has resigned to 

 accept a position as scientific assistant in the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Missouri Fruit Station. — J. T. Stinson, director, has resigned to accept the posi- 

 tion of superintendent of pomology in the department of horticulture of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition. 



OkI;Ahoma CoLLECiE AND STATION. — J. S. Maloiie, assistaut in animal husbandry, 

 has resigned and accepted a position as manager of a 2,500-acre farm in the vicinity 

 of Oswego, Kans. There are 22 students in the short course in agriculture, horti- 

 culture, and mechanic arts, and 20 in the short course in domestic economy. Several 

 were turned away for lack of space. 



Tennessee Station. — Andrew M. Soule, agriculturist and vice-director of the sta- 

 tion, has been elected director. Some important digestion experiments have been 

 undertaken by the chemical department. 



Wyoming Station. — ^The completion and occupation of the new Science Hall has 

 enabled the board of trustees to grant more room in the main university building for 

 the station headquarters. The south end of the building (main floor) has been 

 assigned to the director and agriculturist with his assistants. This furnishes office 

 rooms and additional laboratory space, and the library of the experiment station and 

 agricultural department is shelved where it will be more accessible and convenient. 



Concentration Schools in Canada. — Through the munificence of Sir William 

 Macdonald, of Montreal, the experiment of consolidated schools, in which the prin- 

 ciples of agriculture will be taught, is to be tried in each of the five eastern provinces 

 of Canada, The details of this experiment are in the hands of Prof. James W. 

 Robertson, of Ottawa. The plan is to unite the rural schools in a district and to con- 

 vey the children to a central school. For the present, one school is planned for each 

 of the eastern provinces. In these central schools, besides the usual subjects of the 



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