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Arizona Station. — New substations have been established at Mesa and Yuma, 

 the former in a block of 10 acres provided by the city, the latter upon a tract of 

 land belonging to the Territorial prison. The prisoners will perform the labor 

 required at Yuma. 



Mississippi Station. — The station has recently used the tuberculin test on a herd 

 of 62 cows, mostly grade Jerseys, belonging to the agricultural college. Not a 

 single suspicious case was found, the greatest rise in temperature being only 

 1 degree. Arrangements have been made for continuing the work with other herds 

 in order to as<;ertain what foundation, if any, exists for the claim so often made l)y 

 Southern stock breeders that cows raised in the South are less liable to tul>erculosis 

 than those grown in the North. 



New Hampshirk Station. — Owing to the resignation of Professor Whitcher and 

 Professor ^Yood and the burning of the farm barn, it will be necessary both to reor- 

 ganize and to reequip the agricultural department. 



Pennsyln'ania Station. — J. W. Fields, assistant chemist at the station, has 

 resigned and accepted a position as consulting chemist with a firm of chemical fer- 

 tilizer importers in New York City. 



KiiODE Island College. — College Hall, the main building of the Rhode Island 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, occupied as a dormitory and recitation rooms, 

 was destroyed by fire January 27, 1895. The building was of stone, four and a half 

 stories high, and cost about $4.5,000. A portion of the apparatus was saved, but 

 much of the students' furniture and personal effects was lost. The State carried no 

 insurance on the property. Temjiorary accommodations have been put up. It is 

 proposed to erect a dormitory without recitation rooms on the site of the old build- 

 ing, and a drill hall 130 by 40 ft., the lower story of which will be devoted to chapel 

 and recitation rooms, and the basement to carpenter shop for the mechanical depart- 

 ment, bath rooms, etc. 



Imperial International Exhibit of Agricultural Machines at Vienna. — 

 The Imperial Agricultural Society of Vienna, under the patronage of His Imperial 

 Highness the Archduke Carl Ludwig, will hold in Vienna on May 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1895, 

 an international exhibition of agricultural machinery. The exhibition will be 

 divided into the following departments: Agriculture and agricultural industries; 

 forestry and forest industries ; fruit and viticulture; animal industry ; dairying; fish 

 culture; veterinary work and horseshoeing; electricity as applied to agriculture 

 and forestry; and an annex for seeds and artificial manures. 



Personal mention. — H. Molisch has been chosen professor of vegetable anatomy 

 and physiology, and director of the institute of vegetable physiology of the Univer- 

 sity of Prague. 

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