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of the University of Vermont, has been appointed assistant horticuhurist of the 

 station, to take effect April 1. J. V. B. Watson, of Wakefield, R. I., has been 

 reappointed a member of the board of managers for the term of five years. The 

 former oflficers of the board have been reelected. A small glass house has been 

 erected in connection with the remodeled incubator and brooder house, to supply 

 green food to the young chicks which are reared during the winter season. 



South Carolina College and Station. — C. E. Chambliss, entomologist, has 

 been temporarily appointed botanist and bacteriologist in addition to his other 

 duties. The new dormitory, with 80 lodging rooms and three recitation rooms, 

 has been completed. 



Texas College and Station. — A station council has been organized, consisting of 

 Jefferson Johnson, of the board of trustees, the president of the college, and the 

 director, chemist, and veterinarian of the station. W. C. Martin, assistant station 

 chemist, has been granted a year's leave of absence to study at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, and his place has been supplied for the year by N. Fraenckel, 

 of New York City. Wilmon Xewell, M. S., assistant entomologist at the Ohio 

 Station, has l^een appointed to a similar position at this station. Plans have been 

 accepted for the chemical and veterinary laboratory building provided for by the 

 last legislature. It will be a two-story brick structure, and provided with the modern 

 conveniences for instruction and laboratory work. A greenhouse, 16 by 42 feet, for 

 the horticultural department of the college and station has been completed. 



Utah Station. — The new cattle and sheep barns have been completed at a cost of 

 about $12,000. Experiments with sheep are now under way, and a herd of pure-bred 

 cattle is being purchased at a cost of $4,000. 



West Virginia Station. — Gilbert M. John has been appointed assistant horticul- 

 turist of the station. 



Wyoming Station. — A. C. Jones, of Laramie, has been elected a member of the 

 board of trustees in place of Daniel C. Bacon, deceased. Cooperative work has been 

 planned between the chemical and agricultural divisions of the station, in which 

 digestion experiments will be undertaken with (1) the range grasses as they are 

 found, gathered three or four times a year; (2) grasses growing on fenced area, to 

 determine the yield and digestibility of the growth on the Laramie plains, and (3) 

 grasses and other forage plants grown on the experiment farm with and without irri- 

 gation. The effects of small and large amounts of water used in irrigation on the 

 character and value of the grasses will also be studied. Feeding experiments are in 

 progress to compare alfalfa with native hay for sheep, to determine how much alfalfa 

 and straw are needed to maintain horses through the winter, and in substituting 

 alfalfa for wheat bran and native hay for a milch cow. Efforts are being made to 

 provide suitable accommodations for sheep and cattle. 



Statistics of Experiment Stations in the United States. — The latest statistics, 

 contained in the annual report to Congress of the Office of Experiment Stations, show 

 that there are now 60 experiment stations in the United States, exclusive of the sub- 

 stations. Of these, 54 receive Federal aid. The total income of the stations during 

 1901 was $1,231,881.55, of w^hich $720,000 was received from the National Govern- 

 ment. The remaining $511,881.55 represents the largest amount ever supplemented 

 by State appropriations, analysis fees, sales of products, etc. To the Federal appro- 

 priation should be added $12,000 for the Alaska stations, $10,000 for Hawaii, and 

 $5,000 for Porto Rico, besides the other appropriations to the Ofl&ce of Experiment 

 Stations for its work in general and the nutrition and irrigation investigations con- 

 ducted under its supervision. The value of the additions to equipment of the stations 

 during the year was unusually large, over $230,000, in comparison with $167,475 

 the pre\aous year. These additions were distributed as follows: Buildings, $133,420.77; 

 libraries, $26,303.49; apparatus, $15,309.48; farm implements, $13,085.45; livestock, 

 $18,220.29, and miscellaneous, $25,025.10. 



