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Nebraska Station. — Assistants recently raided to the staff include Robert S. 

 Trumbull, agricultural chemistry, Miss A'euus W. Pool and W. H. Ilein, agri- 

 cultui'al botany, I'ercy B. Barker, soils, and Myron H, Swenk, entomology. 



Oklahoma College. — A grant of $62,000 for a domestic science building and 

 girls' dormitory and of $25,000 for a boys' dormitory was made by the last 

 legislatures 



Rhode Island College. — Plans have been accepted for the construction of the 

 uien's new dormitory and dining hall, for which $55,000 was appropriated by the 

 last general assen}bly. The number of agricultural students has increased very 

 I'apidly in recent years, and the total enrollment is such as to tax the accom- 

 modations of the college and village to the utmost. 



Vermont Station. — Harry L. Miner, a 1907 graduate of the University of 

 Maine, has been appointed assistant chemist beginning November 1. 



Experiment Stations in Portuguese East Africa. — ^A letter recently received 

 from Mr. (). W. Barrett, director of agricultural experiment stations in Portu- 

 guese East Africa, gives additional details regarding the status of these insti- 

 tutions. Gi-ants have been voted by the legislative council of $30,000 for the 

 ](urchase of agricultural implements, including a steam plow, $13,000 for 

 fencing, $0,700 for live stock, and $6,000 for laboratory equipment. 



It is planned to establish a central station and two or three substations, embody- 

 ing a total area of probably more than 3,000 acres, the substations to be located 

 at Chai-Chai on the Limpopo River, at luhambaue south of and at Quelimane 

 north of the Zambezi River. Plans for the office and laboratories of the central 

 station at Lourengo jNIarques have been approved and the work of construction 

 has been begun. 



Entomology and veterinary sections have been established in charge, respect- 

 ively, of C. W. Howard and P. Conacher, both of whom were formerly 

 connected with the Transvaal Department of Agriculture. A reconnaissance 

 of the territory and also of the province of Zambezia is expected to be under- 

 taken' as soon as possible. 



Agricultural Legislation in Mississippi. — At the last session of the Mississippi 

 legislature a number of acts were passed with a view to promoting the agricul- 

 tural interests of the State. Among these was an act authorizing each couaty 

 in the State to build an agricultural high school and pledging a State support 

 fund of $1,000 annually for each school meeting certain specified conditions. 

 Fifteen counties have already located schools. The first of these was Noxubee 

 County, which has voted a tax levy of 1 mill upon the taxable property of the 

 county for the support of its county agricultural high school at Mashulaville, 

 an inland village 12 miles west of Macon. This school will have an income of 

 $1,000 from the State, $1,000 from the public schools merged into it, and $5,000 

 from the county, making an annual income of $7,000. 



The legislature also authorized boards of supervisors to appropriate money 

 for premiums to boys engaged in corn-growing contests. Such contests were 

 organized in 5 counties last year and in 23 counties this year, with over 3,000 

 boys engaged in the work. There are also about 500 girls organized in home 

 culture clubs. Exhibits are first held in the home counties, after which those 

 taking prizes are shown at the State fair. 



Other measures passed by the legislature provided for a live stock sanitary 

 board, which is engaged particularly in cooperating with this Department in 

 ridding the State of the cattle tick, for the appointment of county commissioners 

 of agriculture for the protection and fostering of horticulture and fruit growing, 

 and for the regulation of the sale and providing for the inspection of commercial 

 feeding stuffs. 



