NOTES. 



Arkansas Station. — Further pig-feeding trials with cotton-seed meal are under way at 

 the station, the object being to discover if possible a method of treatment which will 

 neutralize or diminish the toxicity of cotton-seed meal for these animals. Two such 

 tests have been completed. Reduction of the oil content by treatment with gasoline 

 gave no diminution in toxicity of the meal. Fermenting or souring cotton-seed 

 meal preliminary to feeding, a method which has been lately exploited in some of 

 the farm journals, also proved entirely ineffective. Aqueous extracts and their 

 residues of cotton-seed meal are now being tested. 



California University and Station. — Professor Hilgard, director of the station, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence. 



The following appropriations have been made for the college and station: $150,000 

 for the purchase and equipment of a university model farm and agricultural school; 

 $30,000 for a pathological experiment station for southern California for the investi- 

 gation of plant diseases; $20,000 for investigations of pear and walnut blight and 

 diseases of grapes; $12,000 for farmers' institutes; $10,000 for investigations for the 

 purpose of increasing the yield and gluten content of wheat; $5,075 for rehabilitating 

 the Santa Monica Forestry .Station, which had suffered from fire; $4,000 for the 

 poultry station, and $17,000 for printing. An appropriation of $150,000 for an agri- 

 cultural building failed to receive the signature of the governor. 



Colorado College and Station. — The State legislature has appropriated $30,000 for 

 the college and station for the years 1905-6. Of this sum $4,000 is to be expended 

 annually in supplementing and extending the work of the college; $5,000 for investi- 

 gations in live stock; $1,500 for experiments with grain, forage crops, and grasses; 

 $500 for experiments with sugar beets, potatoes, and other root crops; and $4,000 

 for the purpose of organizing and conducting a farmers' institute annually in each 

 agricultural county of the State. 



At the instance of the board of agriculture a bill has also been passed which prevents 

 members of the board from receiving per diem compensation in the future. The 

 members of the board in general have felt that their interest in the college was more 

 than that shown by the amount of per diem received, and that the fact of receiving 

 a per diem gave a wrong interpretation of their motives and hampered their efforts. 



Connecticut State Station.^T. B. Osborne, who has been studying the composition 

 and constitution of the vegetable proteids for many years at this station, has received 

 another grant from the Carnegie Institution for the continuance and expansion of 

 his work. 



Delaware College. — The college has received a State appropriation of $15,000, the 

 greater part of which will probably be expended in building a drill hall and 

 gymnasium. 



Florida University and Station. — A bill before the State legislature provides for the 

 appointment of a board of regents to have charge of all the educational institutions 

 of the State, including the university and the experiment station. This board would 

 replace the present boards of the various institutions, and centralize the management 

 in the hope oi bringing about greater harmony and building up a stronger educa- 

 tional system in the State. The board is to be composed of 15 members, appointed 

 by the governor, 5 members for each of the 3 Congressional districts, no member to 

 be appointed from a town in which one of the institutions affected by the bill is 

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