NOTES. 



Alabama Station. — C. !M. Floyd Jias been appointed farm gnperintendent, vice T. U. 

 Culver, who has resigned to engage in farming. A small herd of Herefords and 

 additions to the Shorthorn and Angus herds have recently been purchased. 

 Feeding experiments with four lots of grade Shorthorn steers are in progress. The 

 veterinarian has inoculated several carloads of thoroughbred Hereford cattle as a 

 protection against Texas fever. These will be sold at auction in Febrviary. 



Connecticut State Station. — Max Silverman, assistant chemist, resigned his jiosition 

 December 1, 1903. 



Connecticut College and Storrs Station. — Dr. B. F. Koons, for many years president 

 of the Storrs Agricultural School and later of the college which grew out of this school, 

 died December 17 at the age of 55 years. The cause of his death was cancer of the 

 throat. At the time of his death Dr. Koons was consulting entomologist to the Storrs 

 Station and professor of natural history in the college. He had been connected with 

 the institution for over 20 years. The station has arranged for cooperation with the 

 Dairy Division of this Department in investigating the principles involved in the 

 manufacture of varieties of soft cheese similar to those common iu western Europe. 

 An expert in the manufacture of soft cheeses has been engaged for this work and 

 curing rooms will be erected. 



Georgia Station. — D. A. Duffee has become foreman of the horticultural department 

 of the station. 



University of Illinois. — Press reports state that the appropriation act of the State 

 legislature for the University of Illinois includes an item of 6100,000 for extension of 

 the engineering department. It is planned to start a State engineering experiment 

 station, where advanced work in cn<_nneering may be carried on. The "station" will 

 provide not only for uiidergraduaU' instruction, but for the working out of new prob- 

 lems in engineering which are of importance to the construction and transportation 

 industries of the State. 



Iowa Station. — W. AV. S:iiith has been elected assistant in animal husbandry. 



Kentucky Station. — (t. X. Keller has been appointed assistant entomologist and 

 botanist. 



Cornell University. — A journal to be known as the Cornell Countri/man has recently 

 been started l)y the students of the college of agriculture. 



South Carolina Station. — Two small flocks of Shropshire and Southdown sheep have 

 been added to the stock of the station. 



South Dakota College and Station. — The new $12,000 barn provided for by the last 

 legislature is nearly completed. This barn has been made of sufficient size to amply 

 accommodate the stock of the college farm and experiment station for several years 

 to come. One-third of the space, or 40 by 60, is to be used for animal feeding experi- 

 ments, and a similar space is to be used for classes in live-stock judging and farm 

 meclianics. The barn is a frame building with cement floor, and has a comj^lete set 

 of drains which empty into a large cistern. Exjaeriments will be conducted in the 

 future on the value of li()uid manure as compared to other manure. The college now 

 has representatives of 17 different breeds of live stock and intends to add several 

 more the coming year. 



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