896 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



total amount granted 2 years ago, and represents the full anioniit r^^quested. 

 TLe college received $132,000 for maintenance, $20,000 for remc-deling the 

 women's Imilding, $.'>.r)00 for a veterinary hospital, $2,.'')()0 for a stock-judging 

 pavilion, and $(i(Ml for an incultator cellar. The grant for fanners' institutes 

 was iucreasiHl from if.'J.ooo to $10,000. The station was given .*.'),(K)0 for pub- 

 lications, $10.0<»(» for dry-farming investigations. $11,0(KJ for fruit investigations, 

 and $7,r)(M» for irrigation and drainage investigations. The various members of 

 the board of trustees were reappointed, with the exception of A. S. Condon, 

 who has been succeeded by Mathoniah Thomas of Salt Lake City. Under a 

 new law the board is to be increased to 9 members, but the additional appointees 

 have not as yet been announced. 



Vermont University and Station. — .SV/c/fcc announces that Williaui Stuart, 

 professor of liorticnlture and horticulturist, has accepted an appointment with 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, and will enter upon his 

 duties at the close of the college year. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — An experimental forestry laboratory is to 

 be established at the university by the Forest Service of this Department. A 

 building to cost $30,000 is to be erected for the purpose at an early date by the 

 university, on a site adjacent to the college of agriculture. The Forest Service 

 is to supi)ly equijmieut and maintain a corps of investigators. It is expected 

 that the laboratory will be available to the faculty and students of the univer- 

 sity for research work, and that members of the staff will deliver lectures on 

 forestry and related topics in the university courses as well as in a course for 

 forest rangers to be established by the university. Amcmg the lines of experi- 

 mental work to be taken up in the laboratory are tests of various woods for 

 paper pulp and for building materials, and the distillation of turpentine, 

 alcohol, and resin from wood waste. 



The new animal husbandry building and judging pavilion has been com- 

 l)leted at a cost of about $7.5.000. The building is built of reinforcetl concrete 

 and brick, with tile roofing, and contains offices for the departments of horse 

 breeding and animal husbandry and the farm superintendent, veterinary demon- 

 stration and operating rooms, stables for breeding stock and sale animals, an 

 isolation hosjutal, and an arena 1G.5 by (j.'j ft., with a capacity of over 2.000. 



County branches of the State Experiment Association are being organized 

 with a view to closer supervision of experiments and greater specialization in 

 planning tests to meet local conditons. 



'Wyoming University and Station. — The legislature has continued the biennial 

 ai)propriation for farmers' institutes of $2,000 and has appropriated $1."),000 to 

 complete the wing of the residence hall for women, and $S,000 for the con- 

 struction of barns on the staticm farms. V. J. Tidball, of Laramie, has been 

 apiK)inted on the board of trustees and the station committee, vice H. L. 

 Stevens. 



Cuban Experiment Station. — Following the change in administration, the 

 resignations of the following members of the staff were called fo.i-: Dr. N. S. 

 Mayo, chief, and J. S. Montgomery, assistant, department of animal industry; 

 AVilliam T. Home, chief, and J. S. Houser, assistant, department of vegetable 

 pathology and entomology; K. S. Stark, chief, department of chemistry; Dr. H. 

 Ilasselbring, chief of the department of botany: and C. F. Austin, chief; C. F. 

 Kinman, assistant, dei)artment of horticulture: Ricardo Villaescusa, as.sistant, 

 department of agronomy : and Richard Ilargrave, secretary. W. T. Home was 

 i-eappointed, and the department of botany was placed in his general charge. 



County Demonstration Farms. — A bill has been passed by the Oklahoma legis- 

 lature pi'oviding for the establishment of a demonstration farm of 40 acres in 

 each county, under the general management of the State Board of Agriculture, 



