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Michigan College and Station. — Extension work in animal husbandry, begun 

 by the collefit' Jilutut a yt>ar ago throuf?li tbe apiiointuient of F. W. Itaven as 

 field agent, has met with encouraging success. Efforts have been directed 

 mainly toward the organization of cooperative breeders' associations, with a 

 view to the stimulation of Hve-stoclc improveuieut. During the first G months 

 10 associations were formed, representing 2,100 cows, and 51 registered sires 

 were purchased. (). K. White has recently been ai)pointed field agent in horti- 

 cultural extension work, and A. K. Potts for similar work with soils and field 

 crops. 



William S. Sayer. assistant in bacteriology in the college and research assist- 

 ant in bacteriology in the station since T.X)7, was drowned while canoeing April 

 30. He was graduated from Beloit College in lS'.)i), and engaged in graduate 

 work in the University of Chicago for the two years following. He had served 

 as chemist and bacteriologist to the Chicago Sanitary Commission, and later 

 was in commercial work. He was 3.3 years of age. 



Maryland College and Station. — Frank Kent has been appointed registrar and 

 treasurer of the college and treasurer of the station, vice the late Dr. J. R. 

 Owens. 



Mississippi College. — The corner stone of the new administration building, to 

 cost aiiiiniximaliMy .$100,000, was laid April 16, with appropriate exercises. The 

 principal address was delivered by President AV. O. Thompson, of the Ohio 

 T'niversity, who took for his subject Industrial Education. 



Nebraska University and Station. — According to a note in Science, the charter 

 of the university has been amended by the legislatui'e to allow a reorganization 

 into seven colleges, namely : The graduate college, the college of arts and 

 sciences, the college of agriculture, the college of engineering, the teachers' 

 college, the college of law, and the college of medicine. Of these the graduate 

 college has hitherto been known as the graduate school, and the colleges of 

 agriculture and engineering have constituted what was known as the industrial 

 college. 



An apiirojtriation was made by the legislature of .$4."),000 for substations, 

 $20,000 for farmers' institutes, and .$1(X>,000 for permanent improvements, the 

 pureha.se of additional land, and other purposes. 



Cornell University. — '/'lie Rural Neio Yorker announces that the College of 

 Agriculture is to cooperate with the Chantauciua Institution'in holding a coun- 

 try life week at Chautauqua, August 23 and 24. This will take the form of a 

 general conference of all ])ersons interested in country life with a symposium 

 (»n its jiroblems. both by men in close touch with country life and those ])romi- 

 nent in other activities. It is expected that many of tli(> agricultural colleges 

 and schools of the country will be I'epresented. 



New York State Station. — A State appropriation of .$10,000 has been granted 

 for a study of grape i)roduction in Chautauqua County. The investigations are 

 to include methods of culture and the ravages of insect pests and fungi. 



Ohio University and Station. — The legislature has appropriated .$20,000 to 

 amplify tlie extension work of the uni\ersify through the holding of traveling 

 schools of agriculture. These schools are restricted in duration to one week, 

 and not nuu'e than one school may be held in a county during a given year. 

 Instruction is to be offered in soil fertility, stock raising, crop production, 

 dairying, horticulture, domestic science, and kindred subjects. An agricultural 

 train was sent out M:irch 2.3, which ma(U> a H-day trip through the south- 

 western part of the Stat(\ 



Arrangements are Ix'ing mad" to siipplenuMit the variety tests of wheat under 

 way at tin' staticMi with milling ;ind iiaking tests, and C. (J. Evans has been 

 appointed assistant agronomist to have charge of this work. 



