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resigned to take the position of secretary of the Wisconsin State Horticultural 

 Society. 



Wyoming Station. — H. C. McLallen has resigned his position as assistant agri- 

 culturist, and will go to New Mexico, where he will operate a farm for himself. 

 George E. Morton, a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural College and former student 

 in the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed assistant in animal industry. 

 B. P. Efeming, assistant in irrigation and irrigation engineer of the station, has been 

 granted leave of absence for one year to pursue his studies and take an advanced 

 degree in the East. Arrangements have been made with the Office of Experiment 

 Stations for some cooperative work in drainage and the reclamation of alkali land at 

 the station. It is expected that 20 acres of land which has been entirely destroyed 

 by seepage and alkali will be drained and cropped for a period of 5 years. A research 

 chemist, who will lie assistant to the chemist of the university, will be appointed for 

 work at the station the coming year. It is expected that the principal work taken 

 up this year will be in studies of animal nutrition with stock foods raised at high alti- 

 tudes. The station is located 7,187 ft. above the sea, and no work of the kind has 

 been done heretofore in this country. 



The past year the station has begun the breeding of horses experimentally, prin- 

 cipally for the purpose of showing Western ranchmen how they can produce a general- 

 purpose horse, and one suitable either for cavalry purposes or for work on the home 

 ranch. It is thought the horse business in Wyoming can be made much more profit- 

 able than it is at present by improving the native stock with coach stallions and such 

 warm blood as may be found necessary. To begin this work some coach stallions and 

 grade mares were purchased last season. Unfortunately, glanders broke out in one of 

 these mares, and the State veterinarian condemned and killed 3 mares and one of the 

 station work horses in July. This will necessitate obtaining some new stock for 

 breeding purposes. 



Bureau of Chemistry, TJ. S. Department of Agriculture. — The order establishing the 

 soil and fertilizer laboratory in the Bureau of Chemistry has been abrogated, and in 

 lieu of this laboratory one to be known as the plant analysis laboratory has been 

 established. The laboratr ry is charged with the examination of fertilizers and will 

 collaborate in this work with the referees of the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists, and with the investigation of the constitution of plants. It is authorized 

 to collaborate with the Bureau of Plant Industry in the chemical investigation of 

 problems in which the two bureaus are mutually interested. 



A leather and paper laboratory and a micro-chemical laboratory have also been 

 established in this Bureau. The latter is charged with micro-chemical investigations 

 relating to the investigations of the Bureau of Chemistry, and especially the exami- 

 nation of food products with respect to their composition and adulteration. To the 

 leather and paper laboratory will be assigned analyses and investigations relating to 

 tannins and tanning material, all technical problems of a chemical nature relating 

 to the production of leather, chemical and physical examinations of papers with 

 reference to their fitness for use in this and other Departments, and problems relat- 

 ing to the production of paper with a view to promoting the agricultural industries 

 connected with the production of the raw materials and to the improvement of the 

 quality of papers made. 



Correspondence Courses in Agriculture.— The Columbian Correspondence College of 

 this city announces 14 courses in agriculture, beginning with the opening of the cur- 

 rent school year. These courses have with few exceptions been prepared by experts 

 in this Department, and are as follows: (1) Plant life; (2) grasses and clovers, by 

 F. H. Hillman, of the Bureau of Plant Industry; (3) soils, fertilizers, and manures, by 

 L. J. Briggs, of the Bureau of Soils; (4) grain crops, by J. I. Schulte, of this Office; 



(5) poultry culture, by Horace Atwood, of the West Virginia College and Station; 



(6) vegetable gardening, by L. C. Corbett, of the Bureau of Plant Industry; (7) fruit 



