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Cornell TTniversity. — The exercises of Farmers' Week, held February 22-27, 

 were very 'nrj^i'ly atteiitleil, the registration reacliiiig 1,275. The prograiiiiue in- 

 eliuled a general reunion of agricultural students resulting in the formation of 

 a permanent association, meetings of the State Exi)erimenters' League. Plant 

 Breeders' Association, Poultry Association, the Cornell Horticultural Union, the 

 Dairy Students' Association, the newly formed State Drainage Association, and 

 other organizations, together with a corn congress, horse show, poultry insti- 

 tute. lKnisekee]iers' conference, the second annual agricultural stage, and a large 

 number of lectures and demonstrations. 



The total enrollment in the college of agriculture is 813, of whom 304 are 

 in the three-months' winter course. The instruction in economic entomology, 

 formerly given by the late Professor Slingerland, has been temporarily dis- 

 continued, A bequest made to the university by the late Dr. Charles A. Ring, 

 of Niagara County, the interest of which is to be used in the advancement of 

 horticultural science, is announced. The recent death is noted of Dr. C. H. 

 Roberts, the donor of the 5 scholarships for aiding needy students in the college 

 of agriculture. 



A. R. Mann, formerly assistant professor in dairy industry, has been ap- 

 pointed secretary to the dean. Allan Ferguson, assistant in cheese making, has 

 resigned to engage in connnercial work. 



North Carolina State Station. — I. O. Schaub, assistant in soils at the Iowa 

 Station, has been appointed to carry on similar work at this station and has 

 entered upon his duties. 



Ohio University and Station. — The department of horticulture and forestry in 

 the university has been divided. W. R. I.azenby retaining charge of the work 

 in forestry. The first State poultry institute was held at the university March 

 9 and 10. 



In the station, recent appointments include J. J, Crumley, Ph. D. (Johns 

 Hopkins), of Antioch College, assistant forester; John S. Houser. whose resig- 

 nation from the Cuban Experiment Station is noted elsewhere in this issue, 

 and Leonard L. Scott, assistant entomologists: and W. A. Lloyd, assistant 

 experimentalist. 



Oregon College and Station. — The third demonstration train to be sent out was 

 rec<'nt].v operated in southern Oregon, and in general interest and attendance 

 was remarkably successful. Fully 30,(K)(» jieople visited the train during the 

 4 days it was in operation, this representing two-thirds of the total population 

 of the district traverseil. 



The special features emphasized were horticulture and poultry husbandry. 

 The two horticultural cars were filled with educational material, including 

 niotlern sjiraying devices, orchard tools and imi)lements, specimens of correct 

 and incorrect methods of grafting, pruning, budding, etc., frost-tighting appara- 

 tus, mcHlels of greenhouses and cold frames, seed-testing equipment, a large 

 collection of the various types of soils, fertilizers, cover crops, and charts of 

 si>ecial value to the orchardist and gardener. 



In the poultry exhibit a flat car was inclosed with a portable poultry fence 

 within which was a modern colony house and a tlock of 20 Harred Plymouth 

 Rocks. A baggage car contained further exhibits of 12 breeds of i)oultry. l)oth 

 live and dressed, varous types of brooder houses in operation, incubators, trap 

 nests, bone mills, sjiray devices, egg packers and other .-ipijliances, and numerous 

 charts containing data as to the value of different rations for egg production, 

 systems of liousini:. and other to|>ics of interest. 



Utah College and Station. — Apitropriatious to the college and station aggre- 

 gating .$2<rj.l(M) have Ix-c-n made by llit> Icgisialure. 'I'liis is nc.nrlv double the 



