526 EXPKKIMENT STATION HEOOFtD. 



West Virginia University. — Ivxtt'iisivc |>ivi)anitii)ii lias 1)ccm iiiaile for the winter 

 sclioul for farifier.s, wliicli will include a course of 100 lectures on various ])hases of 

 agriculture during January and the early part of February. The counse will last 4 

 ■weeks, with 5 lectures each day on such subjects as dairying, poultry industry, horti- 

 culture, veterinary science, animal breeding and feeding, plant diseases, economic 

 relations of farming, chemisti\\' of soils and fertilizers, agriculture and geology, agri- 

 cultural physics, rural water supply, rural schools, farming as a business, etc. 

 Arrangements were made for the meetings of the State Grange, the State Live Stock 

 Association, and the Conference of Farmers' Institute Instructors to be held during 

 the winter school, and also a meeting for (he purpose of organizing a State Dairy- 

 men's Association. The regents of the university have established a department of 

 dairying in the school of agriculture, and a dairy herd and modern apparatus for 

 home dairying and for a working laboratory in this department liave been provided. 

 It is stated that at present there is not a creamery in the State, only one cheese fac- 

 tory, anil comparatively few uji-to-date, well-managed dairies. 



"Wisconsin College and Station. — During the weekended Deceml)er 12 the Wisc(jnsin 

 farmers' institute field workers were in attendance at the agricultural college and 

 experiment station, receiving instruction to l)etter aid them in the conduct of their 

 meetings among the farmers of the State. About 25 workers registered for the 

 week's instruction. The benefits of bringing the institute workers into such close 

 connection with college and station will be apparent to all. The college announces 

 a two Aveeks' farmers' course to begin February 5. Only persons 25 years of age or 

 over will be admitted to the course. No fees are charged residents of the State. 

 Half a dozen agricultural experts from other States will assist tlie instructors in mak- 

 ing this course intensely practical and helpful to the busy farmer. Special attention 

 will be given to corn judging and to stock judging. A number of animals will be 

 slaughtered for a study of carcasses and various parts of the same. Attendance at 

 the college of agriculture the present year is as follows: Graduate students, 3; four- 

 year course students, 57; short course students (two winter terms of 14 weeks each), 

 308; dairy students (12 weeks' course, 5 months' previous experience in creamery or 

 cheese factory required), 148. 



Wyoming University and Station. — Meniy G. Knight, of the State University at 

 Seattle, Wash., has accepted the position of chemist in the university and station 

 recently vacated by E. E. Slosson, who has been granted leave of absence for 8 

 months, but whose return to the university is uncertain. Some changes are being 

 made in the requisition system of the station which will make the director more 

 definitely responsible for the station expenditures; and the station work is being 

 reorganized so as to separate it more definitely from the university and relieve tlie 

 station workers from teaching duties as rapidly as this can be brought aliout. 



Bills before Congress. — The following bills and resolutions have been introduced in 

 Congress relative to the publications of this Department: A joint resolution provid- 

 ing for the puljlication of 200,000 copies of the Siaecial Keport on the Diseases of 

 Cattle, prepared by the Bureau of Animal Industry; a resolution looking to the 

 reprinting in one volume, and with such revision as may be needed to bring the 

 same up to date, of numerous publications issued by the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 on hog cholera and swine plague; a joint resolution j^roviding for the printing of an 

 additional 42,000 copies of the Yearbook of this Department for the purpose of sup- 

 plying the same to the students of the various agricultural colleges; a joint resolu- 

 tion directing the publication of 8,500 copies of the set of food charts jirepared by 

 this Office several years ago; and a bill increasing the edition of the Yearbook (now 

 500,000) to 1,000,000 copies and the Department's quota to 00,000 copies, and 

 increasing the edition of the report of the Bureau of Animal Industry (at present 

 30,000) to 150,000 copies. 



