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Kansas College and Station.— Appropriations aggregating $085,000 have been 

 made by the legislature for the ensuing biennium. Of this amount $450,000 is 

 for maintenance, $45,000 for the station, $75,000 for extension work, $46,300 for 

 the Fort Hays substation, $7,500 for the Garden City substation, $125,000 for 

 building and equipping a wing of the agricultural building to accommodate the 

 departments of animal husbandry, plant production, grain products, and farm 

 mechanics, and the remainder for increased equipment in various departments, 

 minor improvements, and miscellaneous expenditures. The law relating to the 

 inspection of feeding stuffs was also revised and the fees made larger, thereby 

 increasing the revenues of the college. 



A bill to consolidate the management of the state university, the agricultural 

 cohege, and the state normal school by the appointment of a single salaried 

 commission was enacted by the legislature but vetoed by Governor Stubbs. 



Atsushi Miyawaki, assistant in experimental dairying, has resigned to teach 

 dairying and agriculture at the college of agriculture of Tohoku Imperial Uni- 

 versity, Sapporo, Japan. 



Kentucky College and Station. — The first dairy special train to be sent out In 

 Kentucky made a 5-day trip beginning March 6. Demonstrations were given of 

 improved dairy stock, machinery, feeding stuffs, and dairy products. 



Robert Graham has been appointed veterinarian in the station. 



Massachusetts College. — The short courses have been unusually well attended 

 this winter, many being turned away because of lack of accommodations. 

 Farmers' Week also drew a record-breaking attendance. A Polish-American 

 farmers' day was held March 31. lectures being given on onion growing, cattle 

 feeding, American citizenship, the maintenance of health, and similar topics. 



Recent appointments include John A. McLean, formerly of the Mississippi 

 Station, as associate professor of animal husbandry. John C. Graham as asso- 

 ciate professor of poultry husbandry, and Dr. Guy Chester Crampton, since the 

 summer of 1910 professor of zoology at Clemson College, as associate professor 

 of entomology. 



Missouri Station. — C. E. Wilson has been appointed assistant in veterinary 

 science. 



Montana College and Station. — The legislature just adjourned made sub- 

 stantial increases in the appropriations, the aggregate provided for the ensuing 

 biennium being $274,295. Of this $102,295 is for maintenance of the college, 

 $42,500 for the station, $10,000 for the dry farming and horticultural substa- 

 tions, $36,000 for demonstration work in dry farming, $60,000 for an engineering 

 building, $10,000 for greenhouses, and $13,500 for barns, implements, and other 

 improvements. In addition the station chemist was designated as state chemist 

 in food and health matters, with an appropriation of $1,500 per year, and a 

 dairy inspector and instructor, to be located at the college, was authorized with 

 an appropriation of .$3,000 per year. 



The second annual horse school was held January 23-28, with an attendance 

 of about 200 men and boys. Lectures on the feeding, breeding, and management 

 of horses, common diseases and their treatment, and scoring and judging were 

 given. The first horse judging contest in Montana completed the program. 



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