NOTES. 



Alabama College Station. — The station has concluded a feeding experiment 

 with .")(i head of steers, which was made iii cooperation with the Bureau of 

 Animal industry of this Department. It represents the second year of this 

 cooperation. 



Colorado Station. — E. P. Taylor, assistant to the State entomologist Of Illinois, 

 has been appointed held entomologist of the station, with headquarters ;it Grand 

 Junction. He will study the insects working in the orchards of Hint section, 

 more especially the codling moth. O. B. Whipple, assistant horticulturist of 

 the station, has been transferred to Grand Junction as field horticulturist to 

 make a study of the orchard conditions of that locality and of plant diseases. 

 A. II. Danielson, assistant agronomist, whose resignation was recently noted, 

 is succeeded by F. Knorr, of Minnesota. E. R. Bennett, of the Connecticut 

 Storrs Station, has been appointed field assistant for special work in potato 

 investigations in the potato districts of northern Colorado. This work is 

 undertaken partly with State appropriation and partly with funds raised by 

 local subscription. The investigations on loco, carried on in cooperation between 

 the station and this Department, will he on a more extensive scale this year 

 than formerly. The headquarters will he at Hugo. The station will he repre- 

 sented by Dr. G. II. Glover, the veterinarian. 



Connecticut College and Storrs Station. — The fifth annual summer school 

 devoted to nature and country life will he held at the college July 3-27. Storrs 

 Hall, the new brick and stone dormitory, will be ready for the use of the school. 



Florida Station. — E. W. Berger, Ph. D., recently research student at Ohio 

 State University, has heen appointed entomologist to the station. X. Adams, 

 of Jasper, has resigned as a member of the hoard of trustees and J. C. Baisden, 

 of Live Oak, has heen appointed to fill the vacancy. Contracts have been lei 

 for a greenhouse and seven other agricultural and horticultural buildings at 

 the new location of the college and station at Gainesville, together with houses 

 for the foremen of the horticultural and agricultural departments. The houses 

 are to he completed in sixty days and the other farm buildings very soon. 

 that. 



Iowa College and Station. — The legislature has appropriated $11,000 for the 

 purchase of 135 acres of additional land. SO acres of which will he used for 

 grazing purposes and experimental work in animal husbandry, and :>:> acres for 

 orchard instruction and experimental work in forestry. An appropriation of 

 $5,000 was made for buildings on the dairy farm, and an equal amount for the 

 poultry plant; and $15,000 was provided for agricultural extension work, for 

 the conduct of which it is planned to establish an extension department. 



The one-fifth mill tax levy in favor of the institution was extended for a 

 period of five years. This will provide about $125,000 a year for buildings. 

 About $175,000 remains from the present millage tax. which will be applied on 

 the new agricultural building, to cost $275,000. The building will be completed 

 from the new millage tax. An appropriation of $5,000 annually was made Cor 

 good roads instruction and investigation. $3,500 annually for an engineering 

 experiment station, and $2,400 for library. 



H. G. Vjui Pelt has been elected to the position of assistant in animal hus- 

 bandly in charge or* dairy stock, lie will have charge of the 200-acre dairy 



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