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Alabama College and Station.- I.. N. Duncan, a graduate of the Alabama Polytech- 

 nic Institute in the class of L900, has been appointed assistant in agriculture in the 

 college and station. Fifty steers are now being fed to ascertain the relative values of 

 southern feeding stuffs. This is a repetition of a similar experiment made in the win- 

 ter of 1904-5. This work Is conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry of this Department, as was thai of lasl year. 



California University. — A large and successful gathering of public school officers, 

 teachers, ami farmers' institute workers was held at the university December 26 29, 

 UH)5. Over 7,000 were in attendance. The sub j eel of agricultural education was in 

 the foreground and was discussed from various points of view. The meeting was 

 attended by Dr. A. ( '. True, of this Office, who presented paper- on Why the 

 Friends <>i Agricultural Progress Believe that Agriculture should be Taughl in the 

 Public Schools, and A System of Agricultural Education for California. I.. I ». Har- 

 vey, superintendent of the Stout Training Schools, Menomonie, Wis., gave addresses 

 on Experiments in Agricultural Education in this and other Countries and what 

 they should Teach us, and Industrial Education — its Scope, Purpose, and Place in the 

 Public School System. Professors Hilgard, Wickson, and Woodworth, of the uni- 

 versity, and Director Anderson, of the Polytechnic School at San Luis Obispo, par- 

 ticipated in the discussion of these papers. 



A new entomological laboratory was dedicated December 27, the principal address 

 being given by Prof. ('. W. Woodworth. Thin, laboratory, which is for the use of 

 both college and station, occupies the whole of a building with three stories and a 

 basement. The basement is devoted to the work in spraying; the first Btory con- 

 tains large class rooms for undergraduate students; the second story has a number 



of small r ns or cells for individual advanced students, together with larger rooms 



for seminars and the collections, and the third story contains several research labor- 

 atories, an insectary, illustration room, and mien (photographic room. Some L' n <> 

 students are taking courses in entomology. 



Purdue University and Station. — The first seed-corn special train ever run in tin- 

 State was run over the Lake Erie road from December 26 to 30. The railroad fur- 

 nished the train free of charge, and the advertising was looked after by one of the 

 prominent newspapers of the State without expense to the station. The latter fur- 

 nished the speakers and necessary illustrative material. The trip is reported to have 

 been a very decided success. The farmer- turned out well at practically all the stops, 

 even in the rain and snowof the last two days. Large audiences were present at 

 the evening meetings. Altogether more than lo.ooo farmers were addressed. 



( >. I". Hun/.iker, formerly connected with the New York Cornell Station, lias been 



appointed dairyman in the university and station, to succeed H. ]•;. Van Norman, 

 who has gone to the Pennsylvania ( lollege and station. 



Louisiana Station. — P. ( '. Holt/claw, chemist at the State Station at baton Rouge, 

 lias resigned to accept a position with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. I ». N. 

 Barrow, assistanl director at the North Louisiana Station at Calhoun, has also resigned. 



J. G. Lee, for a number of years commissioner of agriculture of the State and for- 

 merly assistanl director at Calhoun, has been selected to till the vacancy. 



Massachusetts College. — At the meeting of the board of trustees early in January, 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield, president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, was elected president. President Puttertield ha- accepted the posi- 

 tion and will enter upon his duties in July. 



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