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Connecticut College and Stations. — The legislature has authorized the trus- 

 tees of the college to establish at least two scholarships from each coanty, and 

 appropriated $4,000 for the purpose for the period ending September 30. 1919. 

 The legislature also provided for State aid to one corporation or association 

 organized in each county for the purpose of providing insti-uction and practical 

 demonstration in agriculture and home economics, promoting advanced busi- 

 ness methods among farmers, or assisting in any manner in the development 

 of agriculture and the improvement of country life. Each organization may 

 obtain annually from the State an amount equal to the sum received by it 

 otherwise than under the provisions of the Fetleral Agricultural Extension Act, 

 but not less than $1,000. 



The chemical laboratory, occupied by the college and Storrs Station, waa 

 totally destroyed by fire, November 2G, 1917. The apparatus and chemicjil 

 laboratory of the station were destroyed, together with a large part of the 

 samples of experimental crops which were awaiting analysis. The chemical 

 work of the station is for the present being carried on at tlie State Station at 

 New Haven. 



.Tnhn V. Street, chemist in charge of the analytical laboratory at the State 

 station, has been grantetl leave of absence to become captain in the Sanitary 

 Corps of the National Army. His duties are expeote<l to deal largely with 

 problems regarding the food supply at the cantonments. Waldo L. Adams, 

 chemist, resigned December 1 to accept a commercial position. 



Purdue University and Station. — A tnict of HSfi acres of virgin forest land In 

 Randolph County has been given the university by the iate Mrs. Henry Davis. 

 Under the terms of the will the property is to be maintained a? the Ilonry 

 Davis Forestry Farm. The forest must be preserveil and no commercial cut- 

 tings made, the tract usefl as a refuge for song birds, and experiinetits un«ler- 

 laken for the acclimatization of useful plants. 



H. .7. Heed, associate horticulturist, has been appointed assistant to the 

 director. George N. Hoffer, assistant professor of botany in the school of sci- 

 ence, has been transferred to the station as as.sociate in botany, his college 

 work being assumed by Eben H. Toole of the Kansas College. R. B. Eas.son, 

 assistant in the poultry extension department, has resigned to enter a reserve 

 olTicers' training camp, and H. C. Mills, associate in dairy manufactures, has 

 resigne<l to engage in commercial work. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Thomas P. Cooper, director of station 

 and extension work in North Dakota, has been appointed dean of the college 

 of agriculture and director of the station beginning .January 1. 1918. R. H. 

 Wilkius and L. B. Mann, of the animal husbandry department, have resii,nie<l. 

 Recent appointments include J. R. Humphrey of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture as head of the department of m.trkets, and J. H. Martin. T. Q. 

 Yaxis, and H. C. Rhodes as assistants In animal husbandry. 



Minnesota University and Station. — Dr. E. Dana Durand has resigned aa 

 chief of the division of research in agricultural economics to devote his entire 

 attention to work in the college of science, literature, and arts. George B. 

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