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Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station.— It is reported that Dr. N. A. Cobb, formerly of 

 Sydney, New South Wales, has been appointed plant pathologist to the station and 

 has accepted the position. A new laboratory is being erected for his department. 



Illinois University. — Plans have heen made to hold a State conference on The 

 Problems of the Rural School at the university during the last week in June. 

 School directors, trustees, county superintendents, and other school officers through- 

 out the State, and the teachers of rural schools will be invited to take part in this 

 conference to consider such questions as the teaching of agriculture, domestic science, 

 and manual training in the rural schools, as well as problems connected with the 

 consolidation of rural schools, the development of rural high schools, and rural 

 school architecture. The conference will be preceded by a two weeks' preliminarv 

 session for the training of rural teachers in agriculture, mechanic arts, and domestic 

 science. 



Purdue University. — The State legislature has appropriated $100,000 for the erection 

 of a chemical laboratory and a school of civil engineering at the university. 



Kansas College and Station. — The State legislature has made the following appro- 

 priations for the next two years: For a horticultural building, greenhouses and equip- 

 ment, $50,000; addition to the boiler room, $3,000; three 125-horsepower boilers and 

 stacks, §10,000; addition to the engine room, $8,000; granary, $4,000; and current 

 expenses, $90,000 for 1006 and $100,000 for 1907. The amount appropriated is about 

 $20,000 more than that appropriated by the legislature two years ago. Arrangements 

 have been completed for tests of varieties of grains and corn at a number of county 

 poor farms in cooperation with the experiment station, the seeds being furnished by 

 the farm department. A soil physics laboratory has been fitted up and equipped. 



New Hampshire College. — The State legislature has appropriated $50,500 for the col- 

 lege under the following heads: Gymnasium and drill hall, $25,000; general expense-, 

 $20,000; president's house, $5,500. The last item is to supplement the insurance 

 money received after the burning of the house formerly occupied by the president. 



New York State Station. — F. D. Fuller, for more than eight years an assistant chemist 

 of the station, has accepted a position as State chemist in charge of concentrated feed- 

 ing stuffs, under the Pennsylvania department of agriculture. R. C. Bisbee, a gradu- 

 ate of Bowdoin College, has been appointed assistant chemist to succeed F. A. Urner, 

 who recently resigned to accept a business position. 



Oklahoma College. — The legislature has appropriated $75,000 for a building for the 

 departments of agriculture and horticulture and for administration, to be known as 

 "Morrill Hall;" $15,000 for additional shops and recitation rooms for mechanical, 

 electrical, and civil engineering; $2,500 for a gymnasium, and $8,000 for acquiring 

 the rights of lessees on the section of land adjoining the original college farm, recently 

 granted to the college by Conyress. An increase of $5,500 per annum in the funds 

 provided for the support of the college by the Territory was granted. A special 

 course in agriculture for normal school teachers is offered for the first time this spring. 



Rhode Island Station. — A scheme of cooperation with the Bureau of Soils of this 

 Department has just heen arranged by which two or more assistants will be detailed 

 from the Department to study certain questions in soil fertility at the station, under 

 the direction of the chief of the Bureau of Soils, the station furnishing the facilities. 



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