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Iowa College and Station. — A new dairy building, 110 by 60 Eeet, is in process of 

 erection, and is expected to be ready about January 1, in time for the use of the dairy 

 school. The building is of cream-colored brick with Bedford stone trimmings. The 

 construction is fireproof, reinforced concrete being used. There are three stories, a 

 basement, and a large attic. The walls of the corridors and workrooms have a wain- 

 scoting of enameled brick 5 feet high, with cream pressed brick above. The floors 

 are largely concrete. The lockers and the refrigerating machinery are located in the 

 basement. The building will cost, with equipment, from $55,000 to $60,000. Plans 

 have been made lor a new agricultural building to cost from $250,000 to $300,000. 

 This building will have a frontage of 244 feet by a depth of 80 feet in the main part, 

 with a central wing at the rear 70 by 80 feet. There will be three stories above a high- 

 working basement, and an attic which may be used for some departments. On the 

 second and third floors in the central wing there will be an assembly room, which 

 will accommodate about 1,200 people. The building will accommodate the depart- 

 ments of agronomy, soils, agricultural chemistry, horticulture and forestry, and ani- 

 mal husbandry, and offices for the dean and director and for other experiment sta- 

 tion purposes. For the present the domestic science department will occupy the top 

 floor. The plans call for fireproof, steel construction, with stone exterior. Thedraw- 

 ings of the building, displayed at the Des Moines convention, show a handsome and 

 impressive structure. W. H. Ogilvie has been appointed station editor, and will 

 have charge of the editing and proof reading of the bulletins and of the mailing list. 



Kentucky Station. — W. G. Campbell, assistant in cooperative experiments, is no 

 longer connected with the station. 



Maine Station. — Edith M. Patch has been appointed entomologist to the station. 



Missouri University and Station. — M. F. Miller, formerly of Ohio State University, 

 is now in charge of the department of agronomy, with A. E. Grantham as assistant. 



North Carolina Station. — Gordon M. Bentley has been appointed assistant entomol- 

 ogist in the State Department of Agriculture and the experiment station. 



Pennsylvania Station. — N. ('. Ilanmer, a graduate of the University of Virginia in 

 the (dass of 1U02, and A. W. Clark, a graduate of the University of Vermont in the 

 class of l'.t04, have been appointed assistant chemists in the station. The United 

 States Secretary of Agriculture has appointed F. W. Christensen assistant expert in 

 animal nutrition, in conformity with the agreement recently made with the station, 

 and assigned him to duty in connection with the cooperative experiments with the 

 respiration calorimeter. R. E. Stallings, assistant in animal nutrition, will devote 

 his entire time during the remainder of the year to the investigations with the 

 respiration calorimeter. The dedication of the new library took place Nov. 18. 

 The library is the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. It is built of light-colored brick 

 and stone and cost 8150,000. 



Porto Rico Station. — The annual report of this station for 1904, recently received, 

 states that an effective hymenopterous parasite of the coffee-leaf miner (Cemioslniim <■<<(- 

 feella) has been discovered and its habits and life history are being studied with the view 

 of distributing the parasite to plantations in which its operation is not evident. Only 



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