NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — By a law recently enacted by the State legisla- 

 lature R. S. jNIaekintosh, horticulturist, has been made ex-officio State horticulturist. 

 Fifteen hundred dollars per annum is appropriated to the college to enforce rules and 

 regulations looking to the protection of fruit trees, vegetables, etc., against the San 

 Jose scale, and insect pests in general. All nursery stock sold in Alaliama Ijy dealers 

 within or without the State must carry the certificate of the State horticulturist. 

 Jesse Jones, of Manhattan, Kans., succeeds R. W. Clark as assistant agriculturist. 



Arizona Station. — The Territorial legislature, during the session just ended, 

 approi)riated 111, 000 for the use of the station, to be expended particularly for the 

 benefit of the date orchard and the station farm and for the dissemination of the 

 results of the station work throughout the Territory by means of publications, 

 farmers' institutes, and short courses of instruction. This appropriation places the 

 station prospectively in a thoroughly satisfactory condition in all of its departments. 



Colorado College and Station. — L. G. Carpenter, professor of civil and irriga- 

 tion engineering in the college and director of the station, has been appointed State 

 engineer. 



Florida Station. — Geo. F. Mitchell lias lieen ap])ointed assi.«tant in field experi- 

 ments. 



Indiana Station. — A newspaper report states that Arthur Goss, chemist of the 

 New Mexico College and Station, has been elected director of the station, vice H. A. 

 Huston, resigned. 



MAssACHrsETTs CoLLEGE AND STATION. — Ralph E. Smith, assistant botanist, has 

 resigned to accept the position of plant pathologist at the California University and 

 Station, and entered upon his new duties early in April. The State legislature 

 has appropriated $20,820 for the college, $16,605 of which is for the comjiletion of 

 the new dining hall and central heating plant, $1,115 for maintenance to cover the 

 deficit in the income from the United States land grant, $1,600 for fitting up an agri- 

 cultural laboratory, $500 for walks, $500 annually for the maintenance of the heating 

 and lighting plant, and the same amount for the dining hall. The bill jiroviding a 

 new feeding-stuffs law, previously mentioned, has been passed. 



Missouri College and Station. — The State legislature has just appropriated to 

 the college and station $62,600 for the following improvements and extensions: 

 Veterinary hospital for contagious diseases, $15,000; barn, $10,000; improved live 

 stock, $5,000; plant house for work in plant physiology and pathology, $7,500; 

 additional equipment for dairy, horticulture, and live-stock buildings, $9,000; experi- 

 ment station, $10,000. Provision has been made for an additional instructor in each 

 of the following departments: \'eterinary medicine, entomology, horticulture, botany, 

 and extension work. The law concerning the manufacture and sale of commercial 

 fertilizers was revised to relieve the station of the duty of analyzing samples of all 

 the fertilizers before they were placed upon the market, and now requires the station 

 to select samples in the open market and analyze the same. The analytical fee was 

 abolished and the price of tags increased from 1 cent to IJ cents each for packages 

 of 100 lbs. or less, and 3 cents each for jmckages weighing more than 100 lbs. 



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