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Idaho University and Station. — The main building of the university was destroyed 

 by fire March 30. The building was the first one erected upon the grounds, and was 

 a large and imposing structure containing the administrative offices, assembly hall, 

 museum, and a large number of class rooms and laboratories. The experiment sta- 

 tion office, library, and laboratories were located in the basement and were also 

 destroyed. The building was insured for $106,500, which will cover about half the 

 loss upon it. 



Maryland Station. — Eaymond Outwater, of the George Washington University, has 

 been appointed assistant chemist of the station. Investigations on sweet corn are 

 planned to be carried on at the station in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry 

 and the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. M. N. Straughn will be in 

 immediate charge of this work. The legislature has increased the appropriation for 

 maintenance by 85,000, making it §10,000 a year. The appropriation for the State 

 horticultural department has been increased to $12,000, with the provision that 

 81,000 shall be used by the station for investigation. 



Massachusetts Station. — A contract has been entered into with the Bureau of Soils 

 for the establishment of a substation in Concord, Mass., for experiments with aspara- 

 gus. The cranberry insects are to be studied in the cranberry districts of this State 

 the coming season by an expert employed for the purpose. Cooperative experiments 

 with fertilizers for cranberries will also be undertaken. 



Frederick R. Church, assistant agriculturist, has resigned to assume the management 

 of a large farm. He is succeeded by Erwin S. Fulton, who has been an assistant in 

 chemistry at Wesleyan University and in the nutrition investigations at Middletown. 



Ohio Station. — The State legislature has established a department of forestry at the 

 station, to carry on studies in forestry as related to the industry of the State. No 

 additional appropriation is made for carrying on this new line of work. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — C. E. Quinn, assistant in agronomy, has resigned to 

 enter the employ of the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. L. A. Moor- 

 house, now on leave attending the University of Illinois, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of agronomy in the college and agronomist in the station, beginning July 1. 

 W. L. Burlison, a graduate of the college in 1905, who has since been attending the 

 University of Illinois, has been appointed temporary assistant in agronomy in the 

 college and station. H. G. Beard, Shawnee, Okla., has resigned from the board of 

 regents. His successor has not been appointed. 



The new shop and gymnasium building has been completed. Work on Morrill 

 Hall is progressing at a rate which insures its completion by the opening of the fall 

 term. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — Howard Edwards, M. A., LL. D., professor of 

 English literature and modern languages at the Michigan Agricultural College, with 

 which institution he has been connected for the past fifteen years, has been elected 

 president of the college, to succeed Kenyon L. Butterfield at the close of the college 

 year. The station is planning for extensive cooperative experiments with farmers 

 of the State this season. 

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