NOTES. 



Arizona College and Station. — T. B. Comstock, who for the past year has been 

 president of the imiversity faculty, was elected president of the university and 

 given the executive control of all depavtnieiits thereof on May 30, 1894. The experi- 

 ment statiou has been reorganized by the formation of a council, with Dr. Comstock 

 as president. F. A. Gulley, director of the station, C. B. Colling wood, chemist, and 

 •T. A. Heberly, assistant chemist, have resigned. The appoiutmcut of chemist will 

 be made at an early date, the position of agriculturist and horticulturist remaining 

 vacant for the present, with the president of the council temporarily acting in that 

 capacity. 



Connecticut Station. — The station has just built a small glass house for vege- 

 tation experiments with fertilizers. 



Idaho Station. — The director is conducting a series of experiments with about 

 560 varieties of economic plants, including cereals, forage and fiber plants, sorghum, 

 orchard and small fruits, vegetables, tannin plants, and forest trees. 



Indiana Station. — J. M. Barrett has been appointed assistant chemist of the 

 station. W.G. Wright, assistant botanist, has resigned, and William Stuart has 

 been appointed in his place. 



Minnesota Station. — O. Lugger has started an extensiveexperinnsnt with chiuch- 

 bug diseases throughout a large aft'ected an^a of the State. M. H. Reynolds is doing 

 considerable work with tuberculin and will have an extensive report later. One or 

 more substations for crop work are being organized by Prof. Hays. T. A. Hoverstad, 

 the first graduate of the six-year course of study under the reorganization of the 

 College of Agriculture in the University of Minnesota, has been retained as an assist- 

 ant in the experiment statiou. Several members of the experiment station corps 

 are teaching in the girls' agricultural school recently instituted. Dairying, cook- 

 ingj gardening, domestic economy, and similar lines are taught by lectures. In cook- 

 ing a' d dairying practice will be given. Applications to the full capacity of the 

 school are already in. 



Texas Station. — Since the first of the year the station has published " press 

 notes " for the benefit of the county papers of the State. These give a plain account 

 of some of the experiments, and corresiiondence of instructive character. Two 

 issues have been published. Encouragement comes from many parts of the State in 

 this work; some 200 papers are using this matter, and by this means it is hoped to 

 reach the farmers who do not read agricultural papers. 



Utah Station. — J. W. Sanborn has tendered his resignation both as president of 

 the college and director of the station, and associated himself with The Mirror and 

 Farmer as its agricultural editor. 



Louisiana Sugar School. — At its first annual commencement, held June 30, 1894, 

 this institution celebrated the comiilction of the first century of sugar growing in 

 Louisiana, as the first crop was grown in 1794 by Etienne de Bor6. 



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