834 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



According to the terms of the agreement the station is to be supplied by the Bureau 

 of Soils with certain apparatus and two assistants for studying, under the supervision 

 of the director of the station, the question of the action of sodium salts upon soils 

 and plants. In the work thus far done at the station it has been found that with 

 certain species of plants the yields are very decidedly increased by the application of 

 sodium salts, even in the presence of 330 lbs. per acre of muriate of potash or its 

 equivalent of potassium carbonate. 



South Carolina College and Station. — II. Benton, assistant professor of agriculture, 

 has resigned, to take effect July 1, L905, to accept a position in the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. B. H. Rawl has resigned from the division of animal husbandry and 

 dairying to take a position in the dairy division of this Department, which he entered 

 upon April 1. His work will be mainly in connection with dairy husbandry in the 

 Smith. The State summer school for teachers will be held this year at the college, 

 beginning June 21. 



South Dakota College and Station. — The State legislature has made the following 

 appropriations for the next two years: Salaries, $13,000 a year; maintenance, $18,200 

 for 1906 and $17,700 for 1907; farm expenses, $3,000 a year; the forage testing sta- 

 tion at Highmore, $1,200 a year, an increase of $200; farmers' institutes, $5,000 a 

 year; purchase of additional land, $16,000; furnishing the horticultural and engi- 

 neering buildings, $800. This is the first time that an appropriation has been made 

 in the State for farmers' institutes. 



Virginia College and Station. — Plans are being made for the rebuilding of Science 

 Hall, recently destroyed by fire. Delegates from the college of agriculture and the 

 experiment station have been holding farmers' institutes during the winter and 

 spring in cooperation with the State department of agriculture. The station has 

 assisted at about 40 institutes, and its work has been placed before the people of 

 the State in a way it never has been before. This work has been received with 

 much favor and has served to arouse widespread interest throughout the State. 



Wyoming University. — The people of Lander have come into the possession of the 

 AViser estate of $40,000, which was bequeathed for an agricultural college. A board 

 has been appointed which has purchased a farm, leased buildings, and employed a 

 faculty, with a view to securing the Government funds. The legislature having 

 refused to transfer these funds, it is stated that an attempt will be made to secure 

 them through the courts. Horticultural experiments will be made at Lander upon 

 a former substation farm, under a State appropriation of $2,000, the work being in 

 charge of a commission consisting of the director of the station and two others. A 

 State board of horticulture has been created, with the professor of botany and 

 ■/.< )i ilogy as ex-officio member, and a nursery inspection law passed. Heretof* ire there 

 have been no regulations regarding the shipping of nursery stock into the State. 



New Buildings for the United States Department of Agriculture. — It has been decided 

 to locate the new buildings for this Department 106 ft. farther west, and to sink the 

 structures 10 ft. lower in the ground than was previously planned. This decision is 

 in accordance with the plans of the Park Commission appointed by the Senate some 

 years ago. The details which have been worked out by this commission since the 

 publication of their report make the above changes necessary in order to conform to 

 the general scheme in the matter of the grade and the relative position of buildings. 

 As the excavation for the two laboratory wings as originally located had been com- 

 pleted, these changes will involve some delay in the work. 



Score Card for Judging Dairies. — A score card for judging the sanitary condition of 

 dairies lias been proposed by Prof. R. A. Pearson, of Cornell University, and adopted 

 by the Syracuse Farmers' Club. Twenty points are allowed to each of the following 

 general divisions: (1) Health of the herd and its protection, (2) cleanliness of the 

 cows and their surroundings, (3) utensils, (4) attendants, (5) handling of milk. 

 Each division has 3 or more subdivisions. 



