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California University and Station. — The summer school at Berkeley this year 

 will include lectures in agriculture, horticulture, entomology, irrigation, and animal 

 feeding. Prof. W. A. Henry, of Wisconsin, will go to the coast to deliver a course 

 of lectures on the latter subject. M. E. Jaffa, of the college of agriculture and the 

 experiment station, has been granted a year's leave of absence for study. He will 

 spend several months in studying the methods of food investigation under Prof. W. 0. 

 Atwater at Middletown, Conn., and later will spend some time in Europe studying 

 the institutions for agricultural research and instruction. 



Connecticut Storrs College and Station. — C. S. Phelps, agriculturist in the col- 

 lege and station, has resigned. At a recent meeting of the board it was decided to 

 concentrate the work of the station at Storrs and to discontinue the work done at 

 Middletown, this to take effect during the coming summer. 



Illinois University and Station. — H. W. Mumford, recently elected professor of 

 animal husbandry in the university and animal husbandman of the station, has been 

 spending considerable time at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, securing photographs 

 and descriptions of the market grades of beef cattle. The results of this investiga- 

 tion will be used in the preparation of a bulletin. R. S. Woodrow, field assistant in 

 sugar-beet investigations, has severed his connection with the station. A. V. Stu- 

 benrauch has been elected assistant horticulturist and inspector of substations at the 

 California Station. He will enter upon his duties early in Jul}'. 



Iowa College and Station. — The general assembly of the State has given the col- 

 lege a one-fifth mill tax to run for five years, which is expected to realize about 

 $600,000. This money is to be used for the erection of buildings. An additional 

 appropriation of $135,000 was made for the biennial period — $35,000 annually for 

 general maintenance, §10,000 annually for the experiment station, $5,000 for live 

 stock, $35,000 to begin the erection of the main central building to take the place of 

 the building destroyed by fire about a year and a half ago, and $5,000 to begin the 

 erection of a barn for the station to replace the one destroyed by fire. The contract 

 has been awarded for this barn, to cost $17,280, the balance to be paid from other 

 funds. 



Kansas Collecje and Station. — H. M. Cottrell, agriculturist in the college and 

 station, has resigned his position to accept the superintendence of a large farm 

 near Trenton, Mo. Professor Cottrell will enter upon his new position about July 1, 

 in the meantime preparing the results of his experimental work for publication. 

 C. L. F. Paull has been appointed assistant botanist, and E. H. Webster, assistant in 

 dairying. The station has leased for five j'ears a large bearing apple orchard in the 

 vicinity in order to conduct certain exi^eriinents on a commercial scale. During the 

 last half of the winter term the college conducted a very successful judging school, 

 one week being given to each of the following subjects: Poultry, swine, dairy cattle, 

 beef cattle, and horses. In addition to the stock belonging to the college many valu- 

 able animals were loaned by their owners. The instruction in judging each class was 

 given by some expert of the State. The term's work closed with the slaughter of six 

 steers which had been fed for beef during the winter, the object being to demonstrate 

 the difference in the character of the meat. The animals were bought in the Kansaa 

 City market. A grade Shorthorn and a grade Angus represented the beef type, a 

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