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Cornell University and Station. — A course of lectures on agricultural journalism will 

 be delivered at the college during the winter, probably at the time the short courses 

 are in session. R. C. Lawry has been appointed assistant in poultry husbandry. 

 The dairy department has leased the Sage creamery, situated about six miles north 

 of Ithaca, This was done to secure a continuous supply of milk for instruction and 

 experimental work in the winter. In the summer the place will be run as a skim- 

 ming station. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The contract has been let for the new agricultural 

 building, work upon which will be begun at once. The building will be 166 ft. long 

 by 76 ft, wide, and consist of a basement of full height and entirely above ground, 

 with two stories above and an attic. The basement, or first story, will be of white 

 limestone and the rest of red pressed brick. The general style will be colonial. 

 Mill construction will be followed, with the main partitions of brick and extending 

 from the basement to the roof. The building will be heated from a central heating 

 plant by indirect radiation, the flues being built into the walls. Provision will be 

 made for the work in animal husbandry, agronomy, farm mechanics, and agricultural 

 physics, of both the college and the station, and the agricultural chemistry work of 

 the station. There will be administrative offices for both the college and the station 

 officers, and in the basement will be located a large stock-judging room and rooms 

 for agricultural machinery. The cost of the building will be about $64,000, exclusive 

 of equipment. 



Tennessee Station. — By an agreement between the station and a local poultry pub- 

 lishing company it has been possible to establish a poultry department in the station. 

 The station will furnish the necessary land and feed for the poultry, and the local 

 company will erect the buildings and give the services of an expert poultryman. 

 J. H. Sledd, editor and manager of The Industrious Hen, will be in charge of the 

 department and will also lecture on poultry in the short course at the university. 



Adams Bill in Congress.— Hon. H. C. Adams reintroduced his bill for the increase 

 of the appropriation to the experiment stations on the opening day of Congress, and 

 it was referred to the Committee on Agriculture. As is generally known, the bill 

 provides for an increase of $5,000 the year that it becomes a law, and an additional 

 increase of §2,000 each year for rive years, making the ultimate appropriation under 

 the bill $15,000 in addition to the Hatch Fund. 



Smith Agricultural School.— Reference has previously been made to this school, the 

 fund for which was bequeathed by Oliver Smith, of Hatfield, Mass., sixty years ago. 

 The original amount of the bequest was $30,000, which has increased until it now 

 amounts to over $300,000. The fund will become available December 22 of this 

 year, and in order to prepare for the establishment of the school the trustees have 

 purchased a tract of 93 acres of land near Northampton, Mass., at a cost of $19,450. 

 The provisions of the will are sufficiently liberal to allow the trustees to exercise 

 wide discretion in planning the school and mapping out its work. It is understood 

 that training in mechanic arts, as well as in agriculture, will be included. 



The Royal Agricultural College.— The curriculum of the Royal Agricultural College, 

 at Cirencester, has recently been extended in two important particulars, according to 

 a note in Mark Lane Express. A tw T o-year course of lectures and demonstrations in 

 poultry and poultry keeping has been provided. The lectures will cover the whole 

 field of scientific poultry farming, and the students as they become qualified will 

 have charge of the fowls, incubators, etc., under supervision. There will be an 

 examination for certificates at the end of the course. The other departure is the estab- 

 lishment of "postgraduate dairy classes." Students who have taken the college 

 diploma will have the opportunity of attending the vacation dairy classes without 

 payment of any fee, i. e., during three weeks in the spring vacation and four weeks 

 in the summer vacation. Students attending these classes will be expected to per- 

 form the manual operations of butter and cheese making, under supervision, and to 

 qualify by examination for the special certificate of the college in dairying. 



