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Rhode Island Station. — M. A. Blake, assistant horticulturist, has resigned to accept 

 a similar position at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, vice George O. Greene, 

 resigned. 



Tennessee Station.— The station forces have just finished, in cooperation with the 

 commissioner of agriculture of the State, a campaign of farmers' institute work in 

 western Tennessee. In the general educational campaign now being conducted in 

 east Tennessee, the director has been making addresses upon agricultural education. 

 A new silo and a modern manure shed with cement floors have been constructed for 

 experimental work. The botanical department has undertaken an investigation of 

 so-called clover-sickness in the State. A number of fungus diseases have been found, 

 and what appears to be the chief cause of the trouble is assigned to a new anthrac- 

 nose, caused by an apparently undescribed species of Colletotrichum. 



Texas College.— H. H. Harrington, for many years professor of chemistry in the 

 college and chemist to the station, has been elected to succeed D. H. Houston as presi- 

 dent of the college. Dr. Houston has, as previously noted, gone to the State Uni- 

 versity as president of that institution. 



Utah College and Station. — The shops of the mechanic arts department of the col- 

 lege were almost totally consumed by fire on the night of September 11. The fire 

 was apparently of incendiary origin. The bench rooms, planer and lathe room, 

 forge room, foundry and carriage rooms, with all their contents, were almost com- 

 plete losses. Some valuable testing machines in the mechanical engineering labora- 

 tory were saved. The total loss is estimated at 840,000, with an insurance amounting 

 to 87,100. It is expected that the shops will be speedily rebuilt and reequipped. 

 J. Willard Bolte, of the Michigan Agricultural College, has been appointed poultry- 

 man in the station. 



The Agricultural Colleges. — The following is taken from The Breeder's Gazette: 

 "Practically without exception American agricultural colleges recently opened their 

 fall terms with increased attendance. In some instances the enrollment has been 

 almost doubled. Altogether the increase has been marked, indicating wonderful 

 growth and distribution of interest in agricultural education. It is a good token. 

 Nothing is more significant as showing the trend of the times. It requires but ordi- 

 nary mental penetration to see the day when the largest success in agriculture as a 

 business will depend upon technical training and commercial sagacity. The colleges 

 ought to be overflowing, every one of them. Their mission is to shape the destiny of 

 agriculture, and hence of the nation, through their students. Their responsibility 

 is tremendous, but they are equal to it. What they have accomplished within a 

 few years, in the face of a disappearing prejudice, is a trustworthy earnest of great 

 service in future." 



Manitoba College of Agriculture. — Buildings are being erected for a new college of 

 agriculture for Manitoba, established by a recent session of the provincial legislature, 

 which appropriated 8200,000 for the purpose. The college is located at Winnipeg, 

 and its principal is W. J. Black, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College, who 

 will have charge of the work in animal husbandry. The principal buildings consist 

 of a main building, 131 ft. long by 67 ft. wide, and 3 stories in height above a high 

 basement; and a science and dairy building, 64 by 66 ft,, and 2 stories in height 

 above a high basement. 



The main building is of stone and white brick, and the science and dairy building 

 of brick with a stone foundation. The main building, in addition to providing labora- 

 tories, class rooms, a library, and an auditorium with a seating capacity of upward of 

 500, will afford temporary accommodations for about 60 students, the intention being 

 to erect a dormitory building when the increase in attendance warrants. The base- 

 ment and first floor of the science and dairy building will be used for butter and 

 cheese making, milk testing, home dairying, etc., and the upper floor for laboratory 

 and class room purposes. 



