NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — Two bills relating to the work of the college 

 and station have recently received the approval of the governor. One of these 

 appropriates $26,800 annually to the station, $7,000 being for local fertilizer 

 and cultural tests, $2,300 for combating the boll weevil and other injurious in- 

 sects, $1,.200 for plant-breeding work, $1,300 for work in drainage, irrigation, 

 and farm machinery, $2,500 for publications and other administrative expenses, 

 $2,000 for horticultural investigations, $3,500 for live-stock investigations, 

 $1,000 for combating plant diseases. $1,000 for poultry work, and $5,000 for 

 agricultural extension. It is also provided that if the governor shall certify 

 that the condition of the State treasury warrants the additional expenditure, 

 the amounts for each of these items may be doubled during 1912, 1913, and 1914. 



The second act establishes a State board of agriculture, to consist of the 

 commissioner of agriculture and industries, the director of the station, and the 

 professor of school agriculture in the college, together with two practical 

 farmers appointed by these three. This board is to I'eceive an annual appro- 

 priation of $25,000 from the sale of fertilizer tags for use in farm demonstra- 

 tion work in cooperation with this Department. 



Michigan College. — Frank W. Chamberlain, associate professor of veterinary 

 science and animal husbandry at the University of Idaho, has accepted the 

 associate professorship of anatomy, and has entered upon his duties. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Frank J. Phillips, head of the forestry de- 

 partment since 1907, died February 13, at the age of 29 years. He was a 

 graduate of the Michigan College and of the University of Michigan, receiving 

 the degree of master of science in forestry from the latter institution in 1907. 

 He was in the employ of the Forest Service of this Department for about three 

 years previous to his appointment in the university and station, and remained 

 a collaborator with it. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — O. O. Churchill, assistant professor of agron- 

 omy at the North Dakota College and assistant in agronomy in the station, 

 has entered upon his duties as professor of agronomy in the college and 

 agronomist in the station. S, A. Minear. formerly connected with the horti- 

 cultural extension work at the Georgia College, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of agriculture for schools. 



Tennessee University and Station. — Five short courses, each lasting one or two 

 weeks, were held in different parts of the State in cooperation with the State 

 department of agriculture during November and December, 1910, with an 

 aggregate attendance of about 600 students. The short course in agriculture 

 at the university in January and February had an attendance of 57 students. 



S. E. Barnes, field expert in dairying in cooperation with this Department, 

 and W. H. Maynard, assistant chemist, have resigned to engage in commercial 

 work. 



Virginia Truck Station. — The station has just completed the erection of a 

 greenhouse 21 by 100 feet, with an attached workroom 20 by 40 feet, for use in 

 connection with the vegetable forcing work. 

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