718 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Minnesota University and Station. — According to the Farm Students' Review, the 

 farmers' short course this year numbered 86, the largest attendance of any year thus 

 far. The station is now ready to distribute a new variety of wheat, to be known as 

 Minnesota No. 188. This variety has been in the test plats at the university farm 

 for 10 years and has proved to have superior yielding qualities. It will be sold in 

 small quantities, as is the usual custom. 



Nebraska Station. — Press reports state that several new buildings have been erected 

 at the substation at North Platte. These improvements include a $3,200 dwelling 

 for the superintendent of the station and a $2,500 barn. Cattle barns, a small hog 

 house, and a granary are now under construction. 



New Hampshire College. — Arrangements have been concluded for a new library to 

 cost 830,000, of which 820,000 was given by Andrew Carnegie and the remaining 

 $10,000 by the Hamilton Smith estate of Durham. The Durham Library Association 

 will turnover to the college library its collection of books, valued at $10,000, and also 

 the income from its invested funds of $11,000 for the purchase of books. In exchange 

 for this the college will extend the privileges of the consolidated library to all citi- 

 zens of the town. The town of Durham will make a small appropriation annually 

 toward the upkeep of the library. 



Mrs. Hamilton Smith, of Durham, has recently given the sum of $10,000 for a new 

 women's hall, which is much needed. The new $25,000 drill hall and gymnasium 

 was dedicated the latter part of January. The building contains a main hall, 58 by 

 98 ft., with lockers and shower baths in the basement. The main floor is unob- 

 structed, the roof being supported by steel trusses, which also support the balcony 

 and running track. The building also contains a college club room, 20 by 40 ft., and 

 offices and a class room for the military department and the physical director. 



Rutgers College. — Dr. W. H. D. Demarest has been elected president of the college 

 to succeed Dr. Austin Scott, who, as previously noted, has retired on account of ill 

 health. Dr. Demarest has been acting president for several months past. 



Cornell University. — According to The Cornell Countryman there were 237 students 

 in the winter course which, with the 223 in the regular and special courses, and 30 

 graduate students in agriculture, gives a total of 490, the greatest total enrollment the 

 college of agriculture has ever had. The registration in the winter course in poultry 

 increased from 17 last year to 35 this year. 



Ohio State University. — W. H. Freund has been added to the teaching staff of the 

 dairy department in the university, as noted in The Agricultural Student. He has 

 studied at Wisconsin, Guelph, and Kingston (Ontario), and will teach cheese and 

 butter making in his new position. 



Pennsylvania Station. — With a view to helping the farmers of the State to secure 

 some information upon the important matter of the fertilizer requirements of their 

 soils, a simple form of field test with fertilizers has been devised, involving the use 

 of only 5 plats and less than $2 worth of fertilizer. Over one hundred such experi- 

 ments have already been arranged for in cooperation with the station in different 

 parts of the State, the station furnishing the fertilizer weighed out and ready for 

 application. The station is also in correspondence with a considerable additional 

 number of farmers, who desire to undertake the work entirely at their own expense. 

 The station, in all cases, will furnish full directions for the experiment and suitable 

 blanks for recording the results. It is hoped that many farmers will avail themselves 

 of this opportunity, and that by means of these experiments it may be possible to 

 secure indications as to the fertilizer requirements of different types of soil in 

 Pennsylvania. 



Rhode Island Station.— The term of Melville Bull, of Newport, who has been a 

 member of the board since the station was established, expired January 31, 1906, 

 and Robert S. Burlingame, of Newport, was appointed his successor. The new 

 organization of the board is as follows: Charles Dean Kimball, president; Robert S. 



