NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — X. C. Rew, a graduate of the Iowa State College of 

 Agriculture au<l tht^ Mecliaiiic Arts, lias been appointed assistant in animal industry 

 in the college and station, vice J. ^M. Jones, who has resigned to engage in farming 

 in Alal)ama. 



California Station. — J. H. Barber, formerly superintendent of the Sierra Foothill 

 Station at Jackson, has been transferred to the Pomona Substation, where he has 

 become assistant superintendent. The superintendent of the latter station also has 

 charge of cooperative experiments carried on in the orange groves of southern Cali- 

 fornia. H. J. Quayle, assistant entomologist, has been for some time investigating 

 the scale insects of the prune orchards at Hanford, in the San Joaquin Valley. The 

 Watsonville Orchard Association has provide<l funds for the continuation of the cod- 

 ling moth investigations which were begun last year by Prof. C. W. Woodworth and 

 his assistants with the cooperation of the association. The San Rafael Improvement 

 Club has inaugurated a campaign of extermination against the mosquito pest under 

 the direction of the station entomologist. A small shed adjoining the station build- 

 ing, once used as a stable, has been fitted up with office and laboratories for the bac- 

 teriological and veterinary department, which has given up its rooms in the main 

 building to the viticultural department. 



Connecticut College. — The third annual summer school for teachers and others in 

 nature and country life will be held July 6 to 29, 1904. Instruction by specialists 

 will be provided in ornithology and entomology, botany, floriculture, landscape gar- 

 dening, forestry, fruit and vegetable growing, dairying, poultry culture, and other 

 fdrm operations. There will be special lectures by Dr. C. F. Hodge of Clark Univer- 

 sity, Dr. M. A. Bigelow of Teachers' College, Columbia University, and several prin- 

 cipals of the State normal training schools. 



Hawaii Station. — An examination of soils by E. C. Shorey, the station chemist, 

 shows nitrogen to be present in the form of pyridine compounds. Several com- 

 pounds have been identified and one has been isolated. The subject is being further 

 investigated. Dr. Shorey finds from an examination of the bark of the wattle 

 {Acacia decurreiis) that this bark carries 29 per cent of tannin. The station has 

 about 15 acres of Acacia trees on its grounds. 



Iowa College and Station. — The State legislature has made the following appropria- 

 tions for the college and station: For additional maintenance fund, $50,000 annually; 

 for completing the central building, §95,000; for beginning the construction of a heat- 

 ing plant, $54,500; for a dairy building, $45,000; equipment for the same, $10,000; for 

 a new dairy farm, $22,000, and equipment of the same, $7,000; poultry department, 

 $500; additional maintenance for the experiment station, $15,000 annually; good 

 roads investigations, $3,500 annually; and engineering investigations, $3,000 annu- 

 ally. The above appropriations include an aggregate of $84,000 for the dairy depart- 

 ment. Plans for the dairy building are now being made, and it is hoped that the 

 building may be completed in the early fall. W. H. Olin, of the station, has arranged 

 with A. E. Cook, proprietor of the Brookmont Farms, near Odebolt, for a coopera- 

 tive experiment with clover. This will be a practical test on a business scale of 

 raising clover, using oats, barley, and corn as nurse crops. Nineteen hundred and 

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