1038 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



250 acres, adjoining the present farm on the south, has been purchased recently for 

 the agricultural department. One hundred acres of this is already in cultivation 

 and is under irrigation from the main canal. This will be carefully leveled and used 

 mainly for experiments on the duty of water. The other 150 acres lie on a bench 

 several feet higher and can not be irrigated at present. A 1,700-lb. Percheron stal- 

 lion and a 1,400-lb. French Coach stallion have been added to the college live stock, 

 and are expected to prove the basis of a marked improvement in the horses raised 

 in the vicinity. 



New York State Station. — Charles W. Mudge, assistant chemist, has been trans- 

 ferred from this station to the department of agriculture at Albany, at the request of 

 Commissioner Wieting. Alfred W. Bosworth, of Storrs, Conn., and Ernest L. Baker, 

 of Columbia University, have been appointed assistant chemists to succeed F. D. 

 Fuller and F. A. Urner, resigned, by the operation of the law enacted in 1904, which 

 reduces the appointive membership of the board to 7 members, F. C. Sehraub, of 

 Lowville, and Jens Jensen, of Binghamton, ceased to be members of the board at the 

 expiration of their terms. 



North Dakota College and Station. — A chemical building to cost $45,000 is in process 

 of construction. This building will contain offices and laboratories for station work 

 as well as for college purposes. A library building is being constructed with $15,000 

 donated by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. This is one of the few land-grant institutions to 

 which gifts for this purpose have been made by Mr. Carnegie, the others being the 

 University of Maine and State College of Pennsylvania. The food-inspection work 

 of the chemist has been so favorably received that additional laws providing for 

 inspection <>f formaldehyde, Paris green, and paints, and for tests of the milling quali- 

 ties of different grades of wheat have been enacted, and the food-inspection law has 

 been amended. The appropriation for this work is §9,000 for the biennial period. 

 The last legislature also provided $10,000 for the establishment of a second substa- 

 tion at Dickinson, in the western and drier portion of the State, and L. R. Waldron, 

 formerly assistant botanist of the central station, has been appointed superintendent, 

 W. B. Bell, of the University of Iowa, has been elected to fill the vacancy. The 

 appropriation of $5,000 per annum for the substation at Edgeley was continued. 



Oklahoma Station. — The Territorial legislature at its last session passed laws for the 

 control of fertilizers and feeding stuffs and for nursery inspection. These laws are 

 in charge of the board of agriculture, but the chemical work and nursery inspection 

 will be done by the station at stated charges per sample or per diem. 



Rhode Island Station.— J. W. Kellogg and Matthew Steel, assistant chemists, have 

 been appointed experts in the Bureau of Soils in connection with the cooperative 

 work which is being carried on between that Bureau and the station. J. P. Gray, a 

 graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, and P. H. Wessels, of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, have been appointed assistant chemists in the places vacated 

 by them. The station is making special plans for further study of the conditions 

 affecting the development of infectious entero-hepatitis in turkeys, and will conduct 

 breeding experiments with the idea of securing, if possible, turkeys which will be 

 more resistant to the disease than those which have been bred in the State heretofore. 



South Dakota College and Station.— E. C. Chilcott, agronomist, has been appointed 

 expert in connection with the cereal work of this Department, and will enter upon 

 his new duties July 1. 



Tennessee Station. — J. E. Converse has been appointed assistant for plat work in 

 the station. 



Texas Station.— A feeding-stuff law has been passed by the legislature, which went 

 into effect May 5. The administration of the law is placed in the hands of the 

 director of the station, and a tag tax of 20 cents per ton is provided, which is to be 

 paid into the State treasury, the station being reimbursed for the actual expense of 



