998 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The vestry of a church in lioardnian, Mahoniii}; County, has dffered to the 

 station tlie use of a tract of 10 acres for a test ticUl. and the county com- 

 missioners and county agricultural society of Hancock County liave made a 

 similar offer of a tract of liO acres. These offers have heen accejjfed and work 

 ou the fields has been heuun. 



The calls for tlie station's fair exhibit from county fair assorintions have 

 become so urgent that two exhibits will be put in the field during the coming 

 fair season, tlie routing of tlie exhibits being jthiced in the hands of a com- 

 Uiittee of the fair associations. 



The State approiirlations to the station aggregate .$11S,;)!)0, besides .$1,0<)() 

 for stationery and an unrestricted amount for pai)er for publications. Tlie 

 ai)propriations incln(l(> .$2S,.")(U» for administrative ])urposes, .^O.noO for agronomy, 

 )t!l."),iri(» for animal liusbandry, .$."i,OU() for liotany, .$1."),()00 for coo|)erative experi- 

 ments. $(;,f).".0 for entomology, ,$.S.()00 for forestry, .$8,000 for soils. .$.'},050 for 

 chemistry. .$i),(!40 ft)r horticulture, .$.s.000 for nutrition, and ,$1,000 for equipment. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — A very successful week's short course was 

 held at the college in January. About 400 farmers were in attendance, and 50 

 Women attended the course in domestic economy. The subjects presented 

 included cotton, corn, and alfalfa growing, seed selection, road building, farm 

 management, horse and swine judging, dairying, tuberculosis, Texas fever and 

 its eradication, the silo and its uses, care of farm horses, orchard pests and 

 Hl>raying. fruit growing and storage, and tree planting. A special feature of 

 the week was a meat-cutting demonstration, conducted under a large tent in 

 which all the retail cuts of beef, pork, and mutton were shown and their 

 relative value explained. 



The State Dairymen's Association held its annual meeting during the week, 

 and a corn growers' association was oi'ganized with over a hundred charter 

 members. 



Extension work is contemplated through a boys' and girls' agricultural club 

 and cooperative ex])erimental work among former students of the college. 

 Several new buildings for the college and station are to be erected. 



John F. Nicholson, professor of botany, entomology, and geology in the col- 

 lege and entomologist in the station, resigned February 10 and is engaged in 

 commercial work. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — The Pennsylvania IJailroad recently ar- 

 ranged a special trip to the college for a company of 23 of its local station 

 agents, for a day's study of agricultural matters of benefit to the farmers in 

 the districts ti-ibutary to their stations. H. P. Raker, forester, has been granted 

 leave of absence for IS months, beginning July 1. to be sjtent in study and travel 

 in Europe and the Orient. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — By a recent act of the general assembly, 

 the board of managers has been increased by the addition of the State commis- 

 sioner of education and a representative to be elected from the State board of 

 agriculture. It is expected that this change will bring the institution into 

 closer touch with the general agricultural work of the State, and that it will 

 tend to promote cordial relations between the board :uid the State board of 

 agriculture. 



Tennessee University and Station. — The legislature has jiassed a bill giving 

 25 per cent of the State's revenues for education. Of this amount 7 per cent 

 will go to the university and experiment station — .$10,000 being set aside for 

 the suppoi't of the substation at Jackson, $5,000 for crop experiments in middle 

 Tennessee. .$7,500 for the station at Knoxville, and the remainder, at present 

 about .$40,00(». for instruction at the university. 



