NOTES. 



California TTniversity and Station. — The appropriations of the last legisla- 

 ture to the university aggregate $3,856,978 for the ensuing bieunium. Of this 

 amount $700,000 is for the maintenance of the agricultural worli, in addition 

 to $135,000 for new buildings at Davis, $60,000 for the purchase of 200 acres 

 of land for the Southern California substation, $100,000 for a laboratory- 

 building, and $25,000 for a residence and barns at the substation. 



W. T. Clarke has been appointed professor of agricultural extension and 

 superintendent of farmers' institutes, and T. Francis Hunt assistant superin- 

 tendent of farmers' institutes. Other promotions and appointments are as 

 follows : As professors, E. B. Babcocli in genetics, F. T. Bioletti in viticulture 

 and entomology, J. S. Burd In agricultural chemistry, 0. B. Lipman in bac- 

 teriologj% and C. M. Haring in veterinary science; Miss E. H. Smith as plant 

 pathologist; David N. Morgan as assistant to the director of the station; as 

 assistant professors, B. H. Crocheron, of the Baltimore County Agricultural 

 High School, of Maryland, in agricultiu'al extension, D. B. Pratt in pomology, 

 Walter Jennings Taylor, F. M. Hayes, and C. M. Roadhouse in veterinary 

 science, W. V. Cruess in zymology, F, L. Griffin in agricultural education, C. H. 

 McCharles in nutrition, and B. A. Madson in agronomy ; as instructors, G. A. 

 Coleman in entomology, George P. Gray in insecticides (and chemist in the 

 insecticide laboratory), J. F. Mitchell in veterinary science, S. S. Rogers in 

 plant pathology. Miss M. E. Stover in nutrition, C. J. Wight in botany, F. H, 

 Wilson in soil technology, E. C. Van Dyke in entomology, Ira J. Condit in citri- 

 culture, and L. J. Nickels in insect industries; and as assistants, R. E. Camp- 

 bell in entomology. Miss Lillian D. Clarke in agricultural extension, Wilson 

 Gee in genetics, O. W. Iraelson in irrigation, W. F. Oglesby in viticulture. Miss 

 C. J. Hill in dairy testing, and Miss Katherine D. Jones in landscape gardening. 

 A. B. Shaw has resigned as assistant in entomology. 



Colorado College and Station.-^Dr. E. P. Sandsten, horticulturist of the Ala- 

 bama College and Station, has been appointed head of the department of 

 horticulture, boginniug August 1. G. P. Weldon has resigned as instructor in 

 zoology and entomology and assistant entomologist, to accept a position with 

 the California Commission of Horticulture. 



Connecticut College.— The new poultry husb.indry building is nearing com- 

 pletion. This is a two-story structure with basement, subbasement, and attic, 

 and is 60 feet long by 40 feet wide. It will cost $25,000, which is believed to be 

 one of the largest single appropriations ever made for instruction, investigation, 

 and extension work in poultry husbandry. 



The main floor is devoted to offices, class rooms, and the library, and the 

 second to a lecture room seating 200, a research laboratory, and quarters for 

 an educational exhibit The attic contains photographic facilities and rooms for 

 attendants. 



The basement and subbasement, both of which owing to the peculiar topog- 

 raphy of the site selected may be reached from the ground level at the rear, 

 contain most of the special poultry equipment, including incubator rooms, a 

 killing room, cold storage room, etc 

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