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Alabama College Station. — C. F. Kinman has been appointed assistant horticulturist 

 of the station, vice T. B. Rivett, resigned. 



California Station. — R. E. Mansell has been appointed head gardener of the central 

 station at Berkeley, in place of Emil Kellner, deceased. The board of regents has 

 appropriated $7,000 for the erection of a temporary building for the entomological 

 division near the present station building, in order to relieve the crowded condition 

 arising from new activities. 



Colorado College and Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of trustees it was 

 decided to regard all work in agricultural experimentation at the college as experiment 

 station work, to be carried on under the direction of the station, and to make the 

 appropriations for this work directly to the experiment station. Provisions were 

 made for entering into a contract with this Department in horse breeding experiments. 

 The college this year inaugurated a short course in practical agriculture for mature 

 stockmen and farmers, which began January 16 and continued for two weeks. Spe- 

 cial attention was given to the judging of different classes of live stock, and also to 

 their common diseases, feeding, breeding, and management. Good representatives 

 of the various breeds of live stock and of types of the market classes were secured for 

 demonstration, and leading feeders and breeders of the various classes of live stock 

 assisted in the lectures and demonstrations. 



Connecticut Storrs Station. — Theodore Issajeff has been appointed cheese maker in 

 the cooperative work between the station and the Dairy Division of this Department. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — W. C. Stubbs, who has been since 1885 pro- 

 fessor of agriculture in the State University and director of the experiment stations, 

 has voluntarily retired. He is succeeded by Prof. W. R. Dodson, who becomes, 

 by virtue of his office as professor of agriculture at the university, director of the 

 three stations in the State, director of the State geological survey, official chemist, etc. 



Massachusetts College. — At the annual meeting of the board of trustees, held early 

 in January, attention was called to the overcrowded condition of the college, which 

 has made it impossible this year to give the instruction called for in the courses to 

 all of the students. To meet this contingency and to provide facilities which the 

 college has long needed it was decided to ask the State legislature for a total appro- 

 priation of $106,650, mainly for buildings. This amount includes $40,000 for a horti- 

 cultural building and equipment, $14,600 for a greenhouse for demonstration work 

 in market gardening, floriculture, etc., and $35,900 for an addition to the botanical 

 building of the experiment station, to be used for instruction purposes, together with 

 equipment for the same. An appropriation of $5,000 is to be asked for improved live 

 stock, and a similar amount for enlarging the electric-light plant. President H. H. 

 Goodell was granted six months' leave of absence, owing to the condition of his health. 



Nevada Station. — Oscar J. Smith, of Reno, and Henry S. Starrett, of Battle Moun- 

 tain, have been elected to the board of control. Mr. Starrett formerly served on 

 the board for a period of six years. The station has recently added to its live stock 

 by the purchase of 2 pure-bred Holstein cows, a pure-bred Holstein bull, 4 grade 



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