NOTES. 719 



Burlingaine, vice-president; C. II. Coggeshall, clerk and treasurer; Thomaa G. 

 Mathewson and Jesse V. B. Watson. 



The station is planning this season, in cooperation with the Bureau of Soils of this 

 Department, to continue the investigations concerning the influence of Bodium salts 

 upon plant growth, and in addition to conducl a considerable number of coopera- 

 tive field experiments in differenl parts of the state forthe purpose of making a 

 special studj of the ability of certain plant- to reveal specific soil requirements. 



Vermont University and Station. — Arrangements have been made forthe purchase 

 of a valuable trad of ground adjoining the college campus, upon whicb .Morrill 1 1 all, 

 the new agricultural building, will be located. 



Virginia College and Station.— The state Legislature has appropriated (86,000 for 

 the college of agriculture and the experimenl station for the biennial period. Of 

 this amount $60,000 is to complete and equip the agricultural building, $5,000 a year 

 for the experiment station. $6,000 a year for the crop pes! commission, and $2,000 a 

 year for furthering the cattle tick work. 



M. 1'. Jarnagin, a former student of the University of Tennessee and a graduate of 

 the Iowa Agricultural College, has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry in 

 the college and station. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The registration in the college of agriculture this 

 year numbers t,052, and includes representatives from 12 states and 6 foreign coun- 

 tries. ( m' these <; are graduate students, L36 in the long course. :;l'l' in the 14 week.-' 

 short course, L78 in the dairy course, and 41»> in the farmers' course. Plansarewell 

 under way for the erection during the present summer of a building for agricultural 

 engineering and an agronomy building. 



The station has established 3 substations or farms in the northern part of the State. 

 immediately south of hake Superior. Over much of this district the forests have 

 yielded up their pine lumber, and agriculture is almost undeveloped. In this region 

 i- a bell of heavy clay soil of very fair fertility, varying in width from a few miles to 

 15 or more, and comprising about a million acres. Immediately south of it i- a -and 

 region of very low to fair fertility. About 20 acres of land have been rented from the 

 county poor farm several miles south of Superior City, in the red-clay region. This 

 has been tile drained and will be planted with various crops the coming season. 

 Near Ashland .">0 acres of stiff red clay have been leased for a similar demonstration 

 farm, and the third will be located in the vicinity of Iron Riser on sandy Boil. It is 

 expected that the expense of these farm- will amount toaboul $6,500 annually, which 

 will be paid wholly from State funds. It is planned to appoint a superintendent to 

 have charge of the work, who will reside at Iron River and look after the other two 

 farms. The work at the latter will he carried on by persons living on the farm- or 

 near by. 



Wyoming University. — The Wyoming supreme court has handed down a decision in 

 the Lander Agricultural College case, unfavorable to the latter. Under an enabling 

 act passed in L892 the people of the state voted to locate the agricultural college at 

 Lander in Fremont County, but the legislature failed to establish the institution and 

 designated the University of Wyoming as the proper institution to receive the Mor- 

 rill and Hatch funds. A year ago the State legislature repealed the action locating 

 the college at Lander, although the board of agriculture had received and partially 

 used an estate of some $40,000, left by Philip Weiser, in starting an agricultural col- 

 lege at Lander. The Lander people raised money by private subscription to try the 

 case in the courts, and served an injunction on the State treasurer to prevenl his 

 turning over the Morrill fund to the hoard of trustees of the university. The supreme 

 court decide* 1 that the legislature had a constitutional right to repeal its former action 

 and that the State agricultural college could not be moved from Laramie to Lander 

 Without legislative action, which leaves the university in possession of the Federal 

 funds for its agricultural college and experiment station. The Lander people have 

 now taken an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. 



