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Arkansas Station. — The State legislature has appropriated $35,000 for the station 

 for the biennial period beginning April 1, 1905. Of this amount $10,000 is for sala- 

 ries in the agricultural, horticultural, entomological, and veterinary departments; 

 $6,000 for dairy building and equipment; $1,500 for dairy and live-stock husbandry; 

 $12,000 for agricultural and horticultural buildings; $2,500 for maintenance of the 

 agricultural department; $2,500 for maintenance of the horticultural and veterinary 

 departments, and $2,000 for student labor. There is provision for the establishment 

 of at least three branch stations, one in the southern, one in the eastern, and one in 

 the central western parts of the State. The veterinary department is charged with the 

 control of contagious and incurable diseases of animals, the inoculation of cattle, ami 

 other State work. It is the evident intention that the funds provided in the act shall 

 also be used for instruction work, for section 1 provides that " the board of trustees of 

 the State University shall establish a course of study in connection with the Arkansas 

 Experiment Station for the students who desire to be instructed in practical agricul- 

 ture, horticulture, entomology, veterinary and kindred subjects, in order that these 

 branches of education maybe developed as rapidly as possible and be diffused among 

 the masses of our agricultural people." 



California University and Station. — E. J. Wickson has been appointed dean of agri- 

 culture, and during the leave of absence granted to Doctor Hilgard will be acting 

 director of the station. Albert M. "West, formerly of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 this Department, has been appointed assistant in plant pathology in the station. 



Colorado College and Station. — W. L. Carlyle was made dean of agriculture at a 

 recent meeting of the board, and will also have charge of the farmers' institutes pro- 

 vided for in the State appropriation. A large number of institutes have been held 

 the past spring and the work organized on an efficient basis. C. J. Griffith, assistant 

 in animal husbandry, has resigned to assume charge of a large ranch, his resignation 

 to take effect at the convenience of the college and station. 



Connecticut College. — A summer school for teachers and others in nature study and 

 country life will be held at the college from July 6 to 28. 



Florida University.— The legislature has passed a bill abolishing the university and 

 five other State educational institutions, revoking their charters, abolishing their 

 boards of trustees and officers, declaring their assets and property the property of 

 the State, and investing the title to the same in the State board of education, in trust. 

 The act provides for the establishment of two institutions for higher education, viz, 

 a university and a female college; and creates a board of control composed of 5 mem- 

 bers appointed by the governor, to act in conjunction with the State board of educa- 

 tion in locating these institutions, one east and the other west of the Suwanee River. 

 In locating the university, the lands, buildings, property, and effects of any of the 

 abolished institutions may be appropriated. The university is to embrace agricul- 

 ture, mechanical and industrial arts, and the experiment station, as well as a scien- 

 tific and classical department, and a normal department for whites; and it is provided 

 that no student shall be admitted to the university who has not graduated from a 

 high school or its equivalent. 



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