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(agronomy) $2,000, the horticultural department $1,500, and the farmers' institutes 

 $2,000 a year for the biennial period in each case. The legislature also directed that 

 a tuition fee of $3 per term, designated as an "incidental fee," be required of stu- 

 dents residing within the State, and a matriculation fee of $10 and an "incidental 

 fee" of $10 per annum of students from without the State. A total of $32,550 was 

 appropriated for the. suljstation at Fort Hays, making liberal provision for equip- 

 ment and work. Among the items mentioned in the act are a dwelling house, horse 

 barns, cattle sheds and yards, bridges, fences, a water plant, a skimming station, 

 tools and implements, teams, and live-stock experiments. The appropriation for - 

 the substation also includes $1,000 for irrigation investigations in cooperation with 

 this Department. The governing board of the college and station is at present con- 

 stituted as follows: J. S. McDowell, of Smith Center, president; C. E. Friend, of Sol- 

 dier, vice-president; E. T. Fairchild, of Ellsworth, treasurer; R. J. Brock, of Man- 

 hattan; J. W. Berry, of Jewell City; J. O. Tulloss, of Sedan; and E. R. Nichols, of 

 Manhattan, secretary ex officio. 



Massachusetts Station. — Daniel L. Cleaves, assistant chemist, is no longer con- 

 nected with the station. 



Missoriii Fkuit Station. — Paul Evans, a graduate of the State University, has 

 been elected director of the station. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The State legislature at its recent session 

 appropriated $15,000 for the establishment and maintenance for two years of a sub- 

 station in the western portion of the State. The work at first will be directed mainly 

 to the protection and improvement of pasture lands. An appropriation of $100,000 

 was also made for buildings and improvements for the school of agriculture and 

 experiment station, mainly for the purpose of facilitating agricultural instruction. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — C. M. Weed will have charge of nature 

 study and elementary science courses at the session of the Marthas Vineyard Sunuiier 

 Institute, to be held at Cottage City, Mass., during the five weeks beginning July 14. 



New Jersey Station. — The experiment station building was completely destroyed 

 by fire on April 23. A large proportion of the records and collections was saved. 

 The total loss was about $25,000, practically covered by insurance. 



Ohio Station. — A. D. Selby, botanist of the station, has been granted a research 

 scholarship in the New York Botanical Garden, where he has been working since 

 December. 



Tennessee Station. — The State assembly which has just adjourned appropriated 

 $10,000 for the purchase of additional land for the station, and increased the appro- 

 priation for farmers' institutes to $5,000. The station will hereafter have charge of 

 the fertilizer inspection work, which will probably add $3,000 to the income of the 

 station. 



Utah Station. — The State legislature recently adjourned made the following 

 appropriations for the station for the two years 1903 and 190-1: General maintenance, 

 $750; printing, $2,000; building for poultry, $3,500; thrasher with power, $400; com- 

 pletion of cattle and sheep barns, $2,700; building for hogs, $1,500; pure-bred sheep 

 and hogs, $800. An appropriation of $12,500 was also made for the establishment 

 and maintenance for two years of five experiment farms to be located in different 

 sections of the State for the purpose of testing the possibilities of the nonirrigable 

 lands. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture.— Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, has been appointed official representative of the United States to the 

 Fifth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, to be held in Berlin, May 31, 

 1903. W. H. Krug, formerly in charge of the dendro-chemical laboratory of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, has resigned to accept a position with A. Klipstein & Co., of 

 New York. 



