NOTES. 



Colorado College and Station. — Undei- an act passed by Congress at its 

 recent session the State of Colorado may purchase 1,G00 acres of public land 

 in Larimer County, at a price of $1.25 per acre, for the use of the college 

 and station. In this way it is hoped to obtain considerable tracts of land 

 in reasonable proximity to the college too broken and rocky as a whole for 

 Mgriculture but containing parcels of from 1 to 4 acres at various altitudes 

 which can be used to advantage for experimental and demonstration purposes. 



Connecticut State Station. — Dr. T. B, Osborne received the degree of doctor 

 of science from Yale University at its recent commencement. 



Iowa College. — The schools section of the agricultural extension department 

 announces, in this year's plans for the Junior Agricultural Union and Con- 

 test, that in addition to the ear-to-row test carried on iast year, there will 

 be courses of instruction and contests in general corn, oat, and potato growing, 

 gardening, and special courses for girls in cooking, sewing, and household 

 management. The instruction will be given largely by means of leaflets sent 

 to members of the union at seasonable times. The enrollment in these con- 

 tests up to May 25 was nearly five thousand. 



Kansas College and Station. — W. M. Jardine, of the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 of this Department, has accepted the professorship of agronomy and of 

 agronomist in the station. T. II. Scheft'er has resigned to accept a position 

 with the Bureau of Biological Survey of this Department, and has been suc- 

 ceeded as assistant entomologist by L. M. Peairs of the Maryland Station. 

 W. E. King has resigned as bacteriologist to return to commercial work, 

 in which he will be accompanied by the assistant bacteriologist, R. H. Wilson. 

 F. S. Jacoby has been appointed assistant in poultry work, with D. E. Schreiner, 

 a graduate student of Cornell University, as foreman of the poultry plant. 



Kentucky University and Station. — As a result of the recommendation of the 

 committee recently appointed to reorganize the college of agriculture, a plan 

 has been adopted whereby the agricultural activities of the university are 

 united in a college of agriculture, to consist of the experiment station or 

 department of research, a department of teaching (undergraduate work), and 

 an extension department. Director M. A. Scovell has been appointed in charge 

 of this college as director, retaining the active management of the station as 

 well. C. W. Matthews, acting head of the college of agriculture for some time, 

 I'jis been appointed professor of botany and horticulture. 



Maine University. — A better farming special train recently sent out made a 

 trip of 17 days and attracted an attendance of over sixteen thousand. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Tlie state appropriations for the ensuing 

 year aggregate .$142,000 for maintenance and $115,025 for additions to equip- 

 ment and special appropriations. This is an increase in income of $37,500, 

 of which $.30,000 is for general instruction and maintenance and $7,500 for 

 short courses. Among the special appropriations are $15,000 for the equip- 

 ment of the new entomological building, $10,000 for general departmental 

 equipment, $25,000 for repairs and minor improvements, $10,000 for an animal 

 husbandry building, $5,000 for poultry buildings, $12,000 for an instruction 



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