NOTES. 



Florida Station. — A tract of land at Lake Aldred has been selected as a site 

 for the now citrus substation. Funds for the erection of a building and the 

 maintenance of the substation for the present biennium have been subscribed by 

 citrus growers of Polk County, and a sum of $10,000 has been placed in the 

 hands of the board of control. 



Cooperative work with pineapple growers of St. Lucie County is being begun 

 with a view to studying the best means of growing pineapples and controlling 

 certain pineapple diseases. 



Purdue University. — School and Society announces that a general increase 

 in salary of 15 ptr cent to all members of the instructional corps was author- 

 ized by the board of trustees at its June meeting. 



Iowa College. — Plans are being made to acquire a tract of 200 acres adjoin- 

 ing the present property, using an appropriation of $70,000 for an animal hus- 

 bandry farm made two years ago. 



Two new buildings are to be erected. One of these is a poultry house to be 

 used for class laboratory work pending the erection of a permanent poultry 

 husbandry building, and then as an incubator and brooder house. A concrete 

 manure shed is to be built for the station. This will enable it to carry on more 

 f(>rtilizer experiments, especially with commercial fertilizers, the use of which 

 is reported to be increasing in the State. 



Kansas College. — A new course has been added known as agricultural re- 

 lationships, and is required of agricultural students in the second semester of 

 the senior year. This course deals with the relationships of the individual to 

 agricultural enterprises and is designed to direct attention to the duties, oppor- 

 tunities, and respousil)ilities of agricultural college graduates as citizens of the 

 agricultural conununity and as siiecialists in various phases of agricultural 

 activities. 



New York State Station. — Joseph AV. Wellington, assistant horticulturist, 

 has accepted a position with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in connection 

 with its potato work. George H. Howe, assistant horticulturist, has been pro- 

 moted to associate horticulturist. Recent appointments of assistants include 

 Rossiter D. Olmstead and Clarence R. Phipps in entomology, Theodore E. 

 Gatey in horticulture, Harold L. Weinstein in chemistry, and George J. Hucker 

 in bacteriology. 



South Dakota College. — The agricultural hall and administration building, 

 containing a museum and auditorium seating 1,200 persons, 20 class and lecture 

 rooms, and 19 laboratoi'ies, is ready for occupancy at a cost of $210,000. 



Vermont University. — The honorary degree of doctor of literature was con- 

 ferred on I>r. L. 11. Bailey at the recent Commencement. 



"Washington Station. — J. L. St. John has been appointed assistant chemist, 

 beginning Sejitember 15. 



West Virginia University. — E. A. Livesay, assistant county agent leader in 

 Missouri, has been appointed professor of animal husbandry, beginning Sep- 

 tember 1. 



Prospective Scientific Meetings. — The thirty-third annual convention of the 

 Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations will be 

 held at Chicago, 111., November 12 to 14. 



The Association of Official Agricultural Chemists will hold its thirty -sixth 

 annual convention at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C, November 

 17 to 19. 

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