NOTES. 



California Station. — A bill recently signed by the governor appropriates 

 $25,000 for a building and equipnient at the Citrus substation at Riverside. Of 

 this amount about $1,500 will be used in improving the irrigation system, 

 $2,500 to complete the title for the building site and nursery grounds, about 

 $2,000 for incidentals, and the remainder for building and equipping a soils 

 laboratory for studying citrus soils as regards their chemical, physical, and 

 biological phases. 



Colorado Station. — V. M. Cone, in charge of irrigation work of this Office in 

 central California, has been appointed irrigation engineer. 



Guam Station. — A shipment of several Morgan horses and Ayrshire cattle 

 is projected, with a view to the improvement of the live-stock industry of the 

 Island. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — The stations recently equipped a car with 

 exhibits of forage crops and corn and other illustrative material for a two- 

 weeks' tour over the Rock Island Lines in conjunction with representatives of 

 the extension department of the university. The car was visited by a great 

 many farmers and very enthusiastic meetings were held at every point visited. 

 Special attention was given to the organization of pig clubs, and about 400 boys 

 have been enrolled in those thus far organized. 



A truck farm has been established at Baton Rouge, partly to produce vege- 

 tables for the use of the university mess hall and partly to study the marketing 

 of truck produce in the North. An irrigation plant with a 12-horsepower 

 gasoline engine has been installed, between 300 and 400 gallons of water being 

 supplied per minute to the main irrigation ditch. G. L. Tiebout, of the station 

 staff, has been given charge of this farm. 



The rice substation at Crowley has recently completed a barn and instrument 

 building costing $2,000. 



H. P. Agee, assistant director of the Sugar Station, has resigned to become 

 assistant director of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. R. G. Tillery, 

 assistant chemist, has accepted a commercial position. 



Maryland Station. — The station is cooperating with the Baltimore County 

 school board in conducting experiments and demonstrations with corn, potatoes, 

 fertilizers, spraying, and hay crops. The work is under the immediate super- 

 vision of the faculty of the Baltimore County Agricultural High School. The 

 station is also cooperating in a State exhibit of strawberries at Randallstown, 

 under the auspices of the local high school. 



G. H. Hibbard, of the Dairy Division of this Department, has been assigned 

 to cooperative work in Maryland, with headquarters at the station. A. L. 

 Stabler, assistant animal husbandman, and T. R. Stanton, assistant agrono- 

 mist, have resigned, to accept positions respectively with the Baltimore County 

 Agricultural High School and the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



Massachusetts College. — George E. Story, assistant in extension work at the 

 Ohio State University, has accepted the position of field agent. 



Nevada Station. — At the last session of the legislature an appropriation of 

 $2,000 was granted for the clifnatological work on Mount Rose, and $3,000 addi- 

 tional for general station work. The director has been designated by the gov- 



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