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Kansas College. — Possession of tlie Fort Hays Reservation, which was transferred 

 by act of Congress to the State of Kansas for the use of the State Agricuhural College 

 and State Xormal School, has been delayeil by a controversy l^etween the State and 

 settlers on the reservation; but a recent decision of the courts was in favor of the 

 State. The reservation embraces about 7,000 acres of fine prairie land lying directly 

 south of Hays City. The plan of the agricultural college is to convert its share of 

 the land into a model experiment farm of several thousand acres to be used for the 

 purpose of testing drought-resisting crops, such as alfalfa, Kafir corn, soy beans, the 

 various grasses, etc., and the comparison of methods of tillage and treatment. An 

 appropriation of $3,000 a year for this work was made by the last State legislature. 

 In connection with its short courses this winter, the college will offer a course in 

 practical poultry management, to be given in February. 



Nebraska T'xiversity axd Station. — A. T. Wiancko, B. S. A., a graduate of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, and recently experimentalist with the Standard Cattle 

 Company, Ames, Xebr., has been appointed instructor in agriculture in the univer- 

 sity and assistant agriculturist of the station. 



New Mexico College and Station. — Luther Foster, recently agriculturist of the 

 Wyoming College and Scation, has been elected president of the New Mexico College 

 and director of the station. He will enter upon his new duties at once. 



North Carolina College. — Watauga Hall, occupied partly as a dormitory, and as 

 dining room and kitchen for the whole college, was destroyed by fire the night of 

 November 29 in the midst of a furious wind. The loss is estimated at about 810,000; 

 tbe insurance is $600. About 50 students occupying the building lost all of their 

 effects, several of them barely escaping with their lives. Temporary kitchen and 

 dining room arrangements were quickly provided, and college exercises were but 

 slightly interrupted. Flans for rebuilding on a l)etter and larger scale are l^eing 

 considered. 



Texas College and Station.— President L. L. Foster, of the Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College of Texas, died at his home at Bryan, December 2, 1901. The 

 board of directors met November 6 at Fort Worth for the purpose of locatmg the new 

 State experiment station provided for by the recent legislature, for which $10,000 

 was appropriated. Over 100 delegates were present at the meeting, representing 20 

 different localities. After a full hearing had been given to all the localities con- 

 cerned, the board decided that the station should be located in either Smith or Hen- 

 derson County (east Texas). A special committee was appointed, consisting of 3 

 members, to decide upon the exact location. 



Utah College and Station. — The new cattle and sheep barns are about com- 

 pleted. A soil physics laboratory and an agricultural museum have been started, and 

 a number of improvements and additions to equipment in the dairy department have 

 been made. 



A New Experiment Station. — The Epitomist Experiment Station, maintained by 

 the publication known as The Agricultural Epitomist, has been established at Spen- 

 cer, Ind. Operations will be begun on a systematic basis in 1902. The farm of 590 

 acres includes a variety of land, furnishing an opportunity for experimenting in 

 drainage and irrigation. An orchard and vineyard have been planted and some 

 work commenced in growing corn and potatoes. The station has a poultry depart- 

 ment consisting of an incubator cellar, brooder house, poultry houses and yard, and 

 about 800 birds, including different varieties of chickens, Pekin ducks, and Toulouse 

 geese. It also has a few Angora goats, flocks of Shropshire and of Highland black- 

 face sheep, about 20 steers, and 3 litters of pigs. While it is to be presumed that the 

 farm will be operated more or less on a commercial basis, the effort of those having 

 it in charge will be "to help advance and improve agriculture in all its branches." 



Personal Mention. — The presentation of a medal to M. Berthelot, the eminent 

 chemist, in the large amphitheater of the Sorbonne, in commemoration of his serv- 



