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Arizona Station. — The Territorial assembly has appropriated $13,100 for the 

 station for the ensuing bienniimi. Of this $4,500 is for the maintenance of the 

 date orchards at Teuipe and Yimia. $2,r)0(t for farmers' institutes, $3,100 for 

 publications, and $3,000 for dry farming experiments in two locations to be 

 selected by the station. 



F. C. Kelton has been appointed assistant engineer and entered upon his 

 duties January 15. 



Connecticut State Station. — A. F. Hawes, station and State forester, has 

 resigned to accept a similar position in Vermont. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — D. L. Van Dine has been transferred to the Bureau 

 of Entomology of this Department in connection with its investigations of sugar 

 cane and rice insects. 



Idaho University and Station. — A demonstration train similar to that sent 

 out in northern Idaho last summer made an itinerary of about a month through 

 southern Idaho, beginning February 15. The illustrative material comprised 

 dairy apparatus, including a dairy cow and a milking machine; spraying appa- 

 ratus; charts; exhibits of grains, grasses and agricultural products; and an 

 agricultural library of about 100 volumes, made up in part of station and De- 

 partment publications. 



Indiana Station. — The State appropriation to the station of $25,000 per year 

 was increased by the legislature at its recent session to $75,000 iier year. Of 

 this amount $15,000 is to be used for soil and crop improvement, $10,000 for 

 dairying, $5,000 for poultry work, $10,000 for other live stock interests, $5,000 

 for the investigation of hog cholera and other animal diseases, and $10,000 for 

 horticultural work. The advisory board, which with the director is given the 

 power to determine the specific lines of work to be undertaken in each case, was 

 enlarged to include, in addition to the State Corn Growers', Dairymen's and 

 Live Stock associations, representatives of the State Horticultural Society and 

 the State Poultrj' Fanciers' Association. Of the remainder of the appropria- 

 tion, $10,000 is to be available for general expenses and $10,000 for extension 

 work. 



Louisiana Stations.— An arrangement has been effected whereby the secretary 

 of the State Crop I'est Commission, Wilmon Newell, will become an active 

 member of the station staff, devoting half his time to entomological investiga- 

 tions under the Adams Act. 



Maryland College and Station. — George E. Gage, Ph. D. (Yale), assistant in 

 the Yale biological laboratory, has been appointed assistant biologist in the 

 station to pursue in^•estigations in poultry diseases. Dr. Robert B. Mayo, 

 assistant pathologist of the station, has resigned to engage in hospital work in 

 Mississippi. Dr. Joseph R. Owens, treasurer of the college since ISOO, died 

 March 15, at the age of 70 years. 



Massachusetts College. — Carroll D. Wright, a trustee of the college since 1!)0(> 

 and eminent for his contributif)ns to statistics and sociology, died at Worcester, 

 February 20, at the age of 68 years. Dr. Wright had been president of Clark 

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