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Connecticut State Station. — The station has introduced an innovation in the 

 spray calendar. It has issued an attractive wall calendar, with formulas on the 

 margin for making the common insecticides and fungicides, and leaves on the cal- 

 endar pad describing l)riefly the common injurious insects and diseases affecting a 

 long list of vegetables, fruits, shade trees, etc., arranged under the plant affected, 

 together with advice as to the treatment to be given. As such a calendar is likely 

 to be quite generally preserved, it will serve to keep the subject of spraying con- 

 stantly before the farmer or orchardist, and place the necessary information where 

 it can be readily found when needed. 



Connecticut Stores Station. — A laboratory for work in dairy bacteriology has 

 recently been fitted up, which is thought to be the best equipped laboratory for the 

 purpose in New England. Investigations are under way with reference to the pro- 

 duction of soft cheese, and it is hoped that through cooperation with this Department 

 a new industry may be introduced in that section. 



Iowa College. — According to a note in American Agriculturist, a new feature of the 

 short course in stock judging at the college this year was a slaughter test, for the 

 purpose of demonstrating the difference l)etvveen different classes of .animals, from 

 the prize winner to the cow "canner." Four animals were used — the Angus steer 

 Thistle, the winner of 4 first prizes at the International, and three others bought at 

 the Omaha stock yards. These included an Angus heifer, a Shorthorn steer that 

 had roughed it through the previous winter but was a "market topper" the day he 

 was purchased for the test, and a Shorthorn cow — atypical "canner" such as are 

 dried off and hurried to market. These were slaughtered and cut up Ijy experts. 

 Thistle dressed 69 per cent of meat, the Angus heifer 61.3, the steer which had 

 roughed it 57, and the canner cow 43.2 per cent. The most radical difference in the 

 carcasses of Thistle and the other steer was about the kidneys and loins. "While 

 Thistle showed a fullness aljout the kidneys and the floor of the loin, the steer 

 showed a great cavity here," attributed to the wasting away of these parts as a result 

 of insufficient feed in the winter, which subsequent fattening could not correct. 

 The demonstration proved a very interesting and instructive feature of the course. 



Maryland College. — The contract has been awarded for the erection of a new 

 dormitory, for which the last legislature made an appropriation of $25,000. The 

 building is to be completed in the early fall. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — President H. H. Goodell has been granted 

 leave of absence on account of poor health, and has gone to the island of Nassau to 

 recuperate. The college has asked the legislature for an appropriation of a little 

 over $20,000 to make uj^ the deficit caused by the shrinkage in interest on college 

 funds, to complete the heating plant ami new dining hall, and to fit up an agricul- 

 tural laboratory. A new feeding-stuffs bill, giving the station iiacreased authority in 

 the matter of inspection, is before the State legislature. The dairy school the past 

 winter proved a marked success and was attended by 30 students. H. A. Ballou, a 

 graduate of the college who has been taking ]>ost-graduate work, has accepted the 

 ]K)sition of government entomologist of the British West Indies, with headquarters 

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