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The management of these two institutions, and of the colored normal school and 

 the institute for the deaf, dumb, and blind, is vested in the single board of control 

 mentii >ned, which also has control of all expenditures. The act appropriates $150,000 

 for the establishment and maintenance of the four institutions, which is to lie allotted 

 in such proportion as the board of education and board of control deem best. The 

 location of the university has not yet been decided upon. 



Illinois University and Station. — The regular biennial appropriation for the college 

 of agriculture and experiment station has passed and been approved by the governor. 

 This appropriation i^ the same as two years ago, with the exception of two sections: 

 The corn section of $10,000 has been changed to a crop section and the amount 

 increased to *1 5,000. The orchard section has also been increased from $10,000 to 

 $15,000. John M. Trueman, assistant in animal husbandry and dairying at Cornell 

 University and Station, has resigned \<> accept a position in the department of dairy- 

 ing at the Illinois University and Station. 



Iowa College and Station. — A new farm, containing about 300 acres, has been pur- 

 chased, and is to be used exclusively for the study of problems relating to dairy 

 production. 



Louisiana Stations. — An addition is being built to the station building at Baton 

 Rouge, which will be devoted to chemical laboratories, the plan being to move the 

 fertilizer and other inspection work from New Orleans about July 1. Hereafter the 

 offices and laboratories of the stations will be located at Baton Rouge, except for such 

 work as relates to sugar investigations. The latter will be carried on at Audubon 

 Park, New Orleans, as before, with R. E. Blouin, assistant director in charge. 



Maryland Station. — Charles F. Doane has resigned his position as dairyman and 

 dairy bacteriologist to accept a position as dairy expert in the Dairy Division of this 

 Department, lie entered upon his duties the latter part of May. 



Massachusetts Co 1 lege and Station. — The legislature has made an appropriation of 

 $53,000, approximately $40,000 of which will be used for the erection and equipment 

 of a horticultural building. W. P. Brooks has been appointed acting director of the 

 station. 



Mississippi College. — A summer normal school for teachers will be held at the col- 

 lege, beginning soon after the close of the spring term and lasting five weeks. The 

 object of this is to make more effective the State law requiring the teaching of agri- 

 culture in the country schools. 



Missouri University and Station.— The legislature has made an appropriation of 

 $55,000 for the college of agriculture and experiment station for the biennial period. 

 Of this amount $15,000 is for the experiment station, $3,000 for inaugurating a soil 

 survey, $5,000 for a cattle barn, $2,000 for a swine barn, and $5,000 for a laboratory 

 building for farm machinery. 



Montana Station. — J. S. Baker, for the past year irrigation engineer of the station, 

 has resigned to become assistant State engineer, with headquarters at Helena. The 

 change took place May 1. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The board of regents has decided to erect a 

 woman's building at the school of agriculture, to cost $32,000. The last legislature 

 appropriated $20,000 for 2 years for further equipment and maintenance of the dry- 

 land substation at North Platte. It also pave $12,000 for farmers' institutes. Dr. 

 F. D. Heald. of the department of botany of the university, lias been promoted to 

 the position of botanist to the experiment station and associate professor of botany in 

 the school of agriculture. 



New Mexico College and Station. — A tract of land containing 23 acres has recentlv 

 been purchased for the horticultural department. The soil is light and well adapted 

 to truck growing. It is hoped that the air drainage will prove better than that of 

 the old orchard and the injury to fruit from late frosts be lessened. A farm of about 



