NOTES, 



Alabama College and Station. — A. B. Magsey, formerly assistant In botany In 

 Clemson College, has been appointed assistant professor of botany. C. S. 

 Ridgway, Instructor In botany and assistant botanist, bas resigned to accept 

 a position with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. H. M. 

 Conolly, field agent in horticulture, has accepted a similar position with the 

 Department and has been succeeded by G. V. Stelzenmuller. 



Connecticut College and Stations. — The state appropriations for the ensuing 

 biennium aggregate $261,000. Of this amount $195,500 is for work at Storrs, 

 including $60,000 for maintenance of the college, $9,000 for maintenance of the 

 station. $10,000 for extension work, $60,000 for an auditorium and armory, and 

 the remainder for sewage and water supplies, four additional cottages, etc. 

 The State Station receives $65,500, of which $39,500 is for general maintenance, 

 $5,000 for the foodstuffs control. $8,000 for entomology, and $13,000 for forestry, 

 including $2,000 for the purchase of land. 



Delaware College and Station. — The annual Farmers' Day on June 16 was 

 attended by about 5,000 farmers and others from Delaware and adjoining States. 

 Governors Miller of Delaware and Goldsborough of Maryland were among the 

 speakers. Ground was broken for the new women's college building during 

 the day. 



The summer school for teachers, for which the last legislature made an 

 appropriation, opened June 23 with a satisfactory attendance. 



T. F. Manns and J. J. Taubenhaus of the division of plant pathology of the 

 station received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of 

 Pennsylvania at its recent commencement. 



Maine University and Station. — W. L. Slate, jr., has resigned as associate 

 professor of agronomy to accept a position with the Connecticut Storrs Station, 

 and has been succeeded by H. S. Osier. R. W. Redman, assistant professor of 

 animal husbandry, is to devote his time exclusively to extension work. O. A. 

 Jordan and E. N. Boland have been appointed instructors in animal husbandry, 

 Cornelia Palmer assistant professor of home economics, and Anna J. Keller and 

 Dorothea Beach instructors in home economics. 



Dr. F. M. Surface of the Kentucky Station has returned as biologist of the 

 station. 



Massachusetts College. — An extended investigation of the institution has been 

 made by the state commission on economy and efficiency. One outcome of this 

 was its recommendation that the system of annual state appropriations for main- 

 tenance be supplanted by appiopriations for a five-year period. This recom- 

 mendation was adopted by the legislature, and allotments have been made as 

 follows: For 1914 $280,000, 1915 $303,000, 1916 .$325,000. 1917 $341,000, and 

 1918 $362,000. This is a total of $1,611,000, or an average of $322,000 per year. 

 An appropriation of $50,000 was also granted for new buildings, including a 

 college infirmary, and authority conferred for exchange of certain tracts of 

 land. 



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