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Florida Station. — A state plant act was signed by the governor April 30. It 

 carries an appi'opriation of $195,000 for the ensuing biennium, of whicli 

 .$12.5,000 is to be used for citrus canker eradication. Tlie state board of con- 

 trol having charge of the institutions for higher education in Florida has been 

 designated as the plant board to carry out the provisions of the act. It is 

 proposed to organize the work under departments of citrus canker eradication, 

 plant pathology, insect jiests, and nursery inspection. The board is given, 

 authority to cooperate with this Department, the State Department of Agri- 

 culture, the station, and other agricultural agencies. 



Idaho "University and Station. — Plans for a building to house the department 

 of farm engineering has been approved, and the building v/ill be erected dur- 

 ing the summer. Extensive improvements to Morrill Hall will also be made 

 to increase the facilities of the departments of farm crops and horticulture. 

 The new work of the station includes animal nutrition investigations and ex- 

 periments with silage from crops not as yet commonly grown in the North- 

 west for silage purposes. Both projects are to be carried on cooperatively by 

 the departments of animal husbandry and chemistry. 



E. P. Taylor has resigned as field horticulturist to engage in private work 

 in Utah. G. J. Downing, assistant horticulturist, has been detailed to take 

 active charge of the project formerly in his charge on the determination of 

 the water requirements of apple crops and the effect of varying amounts of 

 irrigation water on the keeping properties of apples. T. H. Parks has resigned 

 as field entomologist to engage in private work. H. P. Fishburn, assistant 

 professor of agricultural chemistry, has been granted a years leave of absence 

 for graduate work at the University of Chicago. Frank Lafrenz of the class 

 of 1915 will become superintendent of the Sandpoint substation in June. 



Minnesota University. — Twenty-six courses in agriculture and home economics 

 are announced for the summer session of the college of agriculture. 



Missouri University and Station. — The department of farm management will 

 conduct a farm survey in several parts of the State during the coming summer. 



R. IT. Besse has resigned as assistant to the state leader of farm advisers 

 to become state leader of county agents for Wyoming. T. J. Talbert, exten- 

 sion entomologist at the Kansas College, has been appointed extension assistant 

 professor of entomology. Miss Carrie L. Pencost, extension instructor in home 

 economics, and A. H. Hollinger, now assistant in entomology, deputy inspector 

 of nurseries. 



Montana College and Station. — Leo Faust has been appointed to the state 

 board of education vice O. W. McConnell. C. N. Arnett, professor of animal 

 husbandry in the Iowa College, has been appointed head of the animal hus- 

 bandry department beginning soon after .Tune 1. 



New Jersey College and Station. — Irving L. Owen, associate agronomist in the 

 fetation and manager of the college farm, has resigned to become county farm 

 demonstrator for Middlesex County and has been succeeded by Charles S. 

 Van Nuis. Miss Marion T. Pleasants, laboratory assistant in bot.lny. and 



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