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Florida University and Station.— 1\ II. Rolfs, al presenl in charge of the Subtropical 

 Laboratory of thin Department at Miami, and formerly connected with the university 

 and station, ban been elected director of the station. He will also succeed I'. M. Ro 

 resigned, as horticulturist in the university and station. He will enter upon his duties 

 feme time in January. 



Kansas College and Station.— The contracts have been le1 for the new Horticultural 

 Hall, appropriation for which was made by the last legislature. The basement and 

 li,.., door will be used by the horticultural department and the second floor by the 

 botanical department. The building will cosl sum. ■thin- over $35,000, and new 

 greenhouses costing 810,000 will be constructed later. The contract calls for the 

 Completion of the building by September 1. 1906. 



Maine University and Station.— (i. E. Tower, who was erroneously mentioned in a 

 previous issue as professor of chemistry, is in charge of the department < f forestn in 

 the university. The station is just completing the erection of an incubator ho 

 The building is one story, with basement, andis31 ft. square. The high, well-lighted 

 basement will be u>v<\ for an incubator room, and the upper story and attic as a '• 

 tent for the poultryman. 



Maryland Station.— C. \V. Nash, a graduate of the Iowa State College in the class 

 [905, has succeeded E. P.- Walls, resigned, as assistant agronomist. 



Massachusetts College and Station.— The large college barn erected in 1893 was 

 totally destroyed by fire on the night of November L6, together with the greater part 

 of its" contents. The latter included about 300 tons of hay. a large amount of silage, 

 a carload of grain feed. 600 bu. of potatoes, large quantities of other root crops, and 

 several thousand dollars worth of farm implement- and machinery, among which 

 was the apparatus used in the dairy school. This was entirely destroy* d. < lonsid- 

 erable live stock, including about 20 head of young cattle, 3 cows, 4 bulls, a prize 

 ram, and nearly 60 head of swine, wasalsolost. The origin of the fire, which started 

 in the hay, is unknown, but there are said to be good grounds for believing it was 

 incendiary. The building was lighted by electricity, which was the only lighl used 

 about the building, but there were no electric wires in the part where the fire appar- 

 ently started. 



The original cosl of the barn and its equipment was about $45,000, and thevalueol 

 the property destroyed is estimated at more than $15,000. The rooms for the dairy 

 School had been fitted up in recent yea.-, and the loss of machinery and apparatus 

 will seriously handicap that department. Arrangements have been mad.- to tit up 

 rooms in the basemenl of a dormitory building for the dairy school, which will open 

 in .January. A part of the live stork has been sold at auction owing to lack of 

 accommodations for it. The Stat.- had of late followed tin- plan of insuring it- own 

 property, so that a considerable part of the insurance formerly carried had been 

 allowed to laps.-. From the unexpired policies $17,229 will be allowed b\ the 

 insurance companies on the barn and its contents. The legislature will be asked for 

 an appropriation to rebuild the barn, probably using a more permanent styleoi con- 

 struction, such as icrete or eement throughout for the >tal>le-. 



Rntgers College. — I >r. Austin Scott has resigned the presidency of the college, 

 owing to the condition of his health, but will retain the chair of history and political 

 science. 



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