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Arkansas University and Station. — The State legislature has made the following 

 appropriations for the experiment station: $9,000 for an agricultural building; 55,000 

 for a dairy building; $11,500 for salaries of agriculturist, assistanl agriculturist, hor- 

 ticulturist, assistant horticulturist, entomologist, veterinarian, farm foreman, and 

 dairy and live stock husbandman; $5,000 for maintenance of agricultural, horticul- 

 tural, and veterinary departments; $2,000 for student labor; and $3,000 foi - 

 lions. Frank I\ Hall, Fayetteville, and Dougald McMillan, Arkadelphia, have been 

 appointed members Of the governing board, vice J. C. Mitchell and < '. C. Hamby, 

 retired. J. L. Hewitt has been appointed assistant horticulturist. 



Connecticut State Station. — This station is erecting a two-story laboratory, covering 

 an area of about 1,500 sq. ft., to supplement it- present laboratory, which is much 

 overcrowded. It is expected that the building will he ready for occupancy early in 

 L906. I. A. Andrew resigned from the station staff .Inly 1 to take a position mi a 

 farm. I-'.. M. East, formerly assistant in plant breeding at tin- Illinois station, has 

 been appointed to the station staff and will devote himself to the study of selection 

 and breeding of corn. 



Connecticut Storrs College and Station. — The State legislature has appropriated 

 $40,000 for current expenses for 2 years, S:5,()00 for inves titrations in nutrition and 

 daily bacteriology, and $60,000 for the erection of a brick and stone dormitory to 

 accommodate 66 students. The enrolment in the summer school for teachers and 

 others in nature and country life subjects was 61. 



Florida University and Station. — F. M. Stearns has been appointed foreman of gar- 

 dens and orchards, vice -I. II. Jefferies, resigned; B. II. Bridges, assistant chemist, 

 vice R. A. Lichtenthaeler, resigned; and A. II. Chain nan. assistanl in agriculture, vice 

 S. A. Robert, resigned. Mr. Jefferies goes to the North Carolina Station and 

 Mr. Robert into private business. C. F. Dawson, whoso resignation was previously 

 noted ' !•;. s. R., pi. p. l L39 1, has been elected consulting veterinarian to the station. 



Georgia College and Station. — A movement was recently inaugurated looking to the 

 removal of the experiment station to Athens, the site of the State University and the 

 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. This effort has met with decided oppo- 

 sition on the part of the citi/ens and authorities of Spalding County and the city of 

 Griffin, and a countermovement has been made to move the state College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts from Athens to < irillin, to be Operated in close connection 

 with the experiment station ami entirely divorced from the university. Bills have 

 been introduced and are now pending in the general assembly of i teorgia looking to 



the accomplishment of these ends. The title of the dairy department of the station 



has been changed to that of department of animal industry. ( '. I.. Willoughby 

 remaining in charge. Tin- work of this department will be extended t<> include 

 experiments in feeding steers, and a barn for this purpose has been provided by 

 altering and adding t<» an abandoned tobacco-curing building. 



Iowa Station. — V. R. Gardner has been added to the station staff in horticulture. 



Louisiana Stations. — I'. L. Hutchinson, chemist in charge of t In- anal} sis "I fertili- 

 zers and feeding stuffs, has resigned to accept a position in this Department, and his 

 position has been filled by the appointment of J. E. Halligan. J. T. Felt has been 

 appointed assistant chemist. 



