824 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Montana College and Station. — At the session of the State legislature just closed 

 an appropriation of $5,000 a year was made for the maintenance of the station, 

 $5,500 for a central heating plant for the experiment station and agricultui-al build- 

 ings, $3,000 for a seed house and granary, and $13,000 for a cattle and dairy barn. 

 These added facilities will strengthen both the college and station departments of 

 agriculture and permit of developing lines of work for which there is very much 

 need in the State, notably dairying. 



New Hampshire CoLLEtiE and Station. — C. S. Murkland, president of the college, 

 has resigned, to take effect May 1, 1903. Arthur L. Sullivan, assistant chemist of 

 the station, has resigned to accept an aiipointment as analytical chemist in the Office 

 of Internal Revenue of the United States Treasury Department. 



Cornell University. — L. H. Bailey, professor of horticulture, has been appointed 

 director of the college of agriculture and dean of the faculty of agriculture, to succeed 

 I. P. Roberts upon his retirement. 



North Dakota Station. — The legislature has made an appropriation of $5,000 

 for a substation to be established at Edgeley. 



Ohio Station. — The station has established two additional test farms, one located 

 at Germantown, in the tobacco district of southwestern Ohio, and to have the study 

 of tobacco problems as part of its work; the other located at Carpenter, Meigs. 

 County, in the hill region of southeastern Ohio, and to be devoted to the special 

 study of the problems peculiar to that region. The sandy land test farm in north- 

 western (^hio has been abandoned for the present. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The governor has reappointed all the members 

 of the board of regents, and their nominations have been contirmed by the council. 

 The Territorial legislature has made some alterations in the funds for the maintenance 

 of the college which will result in increasing the total revenue of the college to the 

 extent of about 5 per cent. An appropriation of $2,500 was made to the station to 

 cover the cost of the manufacture and free distribution of ]:)lackleg vaccine. 



Oregon Station. — E. F. Pernot, l>acteriologist, has obtained encouraging results 

 in curing cheese in sealed cans with the aid of pure cultures. Experiments in con- 

 trolling the flavor of cheese have been in progress at the station for two years past. 

 By the new method, the fresh curd containing the pure cultures is placed in tin cans, 

 pressed overnight in a cheese press, and the covers then soldered on. The ripening 

 process is said to result in a cheese of superior and cjuite uniform flavor, and of a 

 more friable and waxy texture than ordinary cheese, without rind or danger of mold. 



Pennsylvania College. — In- order to make the new library building more fully 

 adequate to the needs of the college, Andrew Carnegie has increased his donation 

 for that purpose from $100,000 to $150,000. The designs for the new library will be 

 com{)leted soon, and it is expected that the work of construction will be begun by 

 May 1. 



Pt)KTo Rico Station. — The insular legislature has appropriated $5,700 for the sta- 

 tion, $2,000 of which is for tobacco experiments, $1,000 for experiments with coffee, 

 and $2,700 for permanent improvements on the farm, such as fencing, underdraining, 

 irrigation ditches, etc. 



Texas College and Station. — The following changes have been made in the gov- 

 erning board: K. K. Leggett, of Abilene; GeorgeT. Jester, of Consicana; W. J. Clay, 

 of Austin; A. Haidusheck, of Lagrange, and L. D. Amsley, of Hempstead, have been 

 appointed, vice A. C. Oliver, Wm. Malone, A. P. Smyth, John W. Kokernot, and 

 Jeff Johnson, retired. The new chemical-veterinary Iniikling recently completed is 

 now occupied by the departments of chemistry and veterinary medicine. The large 

 lecture room in this building has been used the past winter for holding a course of 

 lectures by leading agriculturists and horticulturists, including a number from out- 

 side the State. E. P. Stiles, superintendent of the Troupe Substation, resigned 



