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cover "the principles which underlie the prosperity of the farmer and of all other 

 classes as far as they are dependent on agriculture." 



Montana Station. — The station is just completing a large harn, which is built with 

 an appropriation of $13,000. The building is an attractive one, and will he a great 

 improvement over the dilapidated structures which formerly served for barns. The 

 contract price was $11,400, not including the steam and water fittings, which will 

 add about $500 moTe. The barn will accommodate about 75 head of stock, and is 

 provided with cement floors, iron stahle fittings, etc. A hog house and sheds for 

 machinery have all so been put up. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Good progress is being made in the erection of 

 the $60,000 main building for the school of agriculture. The building will contain 

 the executive offices of the experiment station, and offices and laboratories in animal 

 pathology. The remainder will be devoted to instructional work of the school of 

 agriculture. The completion of this building will leave the present station building to 

 the departments of agriculture and agricultural chemistry, and give opportunity for 

 equipping large laboratories for instruction and station work. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — Harold H. Scudder has resigned his position 

 as assistant chemist to enter newspaper work. Harry D. Batchelor, a graduate of this 

 college in the class of 1903, has been appointed in his place. E. Dwight Sanderson, 

 State entomologist of Texas, and entomologist of the Texas College and Station, has 

 accepted the position of professor of entomology and zoology in the college and ento- 

 mologist to the station, and will begin his duties November 1. He will succeed 

 Clarence M. Weed, who has resigned to take charge of nature study work in the 

 public schools of Lowell, Mass. 



New Mexico College and Station. — John M. Scott, of the agricultural department, 

 has been advanced to the position of first assistant, made vacant by the resignation 

 of H. C. MeLallen, who, as previously noted, has gone to the Wyoming Station. 

 A. E. Lovett, a recent graduate of the Oklahoma Agricultural College, entered upon 

 his duties as assistant in animal husbandry on July 1. F. O. Woodruff, formerly 

 assistant chemist at the Nebraska Station, assumed the duties of assistant chemist 

 the middle of June, vice C. L. Post, resigned. In June the pumping plant was run 

 almost continuously for seven days and nights, throwing an average of 1,000 gal. per 

 minute. The removal of this amount of water only lowered the surface of the water 

 in the well 2 ft. below its position in one-day runs. A new 40-horsepower boiler 

 and a 30-horsepower engine have been installed recently. This will allow the run- 

 ning of pumps on both wells at once, and raise the amount pumped to about 2,000 

 gal. per minute. 



North Carolina College. — At the Summer School of the North Carolina College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, held during July, there was an enrollment of 977 

 teachers, of whom 477 took work in agriculture. Immediately following the Sum- 

 mer School a Farmers' Convention, with an enrollment of between 400 and 500 

 farmers, was held. This large attendance is an indication of the remarkable awak- 

 ening in North Carolina along educational lines, and especially of the interest in 

 agricultural education, which has been aroused during the past two or three years. 

 As a further indication of this interest it is stated that the school authorities of sev- 

 eral counties in the State voted to pay the tuition and most of the other expenses of 

 such teachers as would attend this Summer School, but were prevented from carrying 

 out their good intentions by a decision that the school funds could not legally be used 

 in such a manner. According to a newspaper report, bids lave been called for for 

 the erection of an agricultural building at a cost of $50,000. Plans for the future 

 development of the college campus have been made by a landscape gardener, and the 

 new building will be located on his recommendation. 



North Dakota College and Station.— W. B. Richards, of the Wisconsin Agricultural 

 College, has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry in the college and station; 



