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farm which has recently been purchased and which is now being equipped and 

 stocked for experimental and educational work in dairy stock. This farm will 

 be devoted exclusively to dairy and poultry work. The poultry department is 

 being organized and will be equipped and ready for work at the opening of the 

 next college year. W. J. Rutherford, assistant in animal husbandry, has re- 

 signed t<> accept a position at the new Manitoba agricultural college. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — The State legislature has appropriated 

 .S7.~>..".<><>. in addition to the regular permanent appropriations, as follows: For 

 erecting, heating, and equipping a building for the botanical department, $45,000; 

 for a new barn and a new wagon house, $21,300; for a dairy building to be used 

 simply for the handling of the farm product, $3,000; for a new piggery, $1,000; 

 for repairs to buildings, $3,000 ; and for the further maintenance of the college, 

 $2,000. The new buildings provided for. except that for the botanical depart- 

 ment, are to replace those lost by fire. For the new barn an unexpended balance 

 of insurance money amounting to $12,000 is also available. The permanent 

 appropriation of the State to the college now amounts to about $57,000 annually. 



Walter B. Hatch, assistant horticulturist in the station, has resigned, and 

 Charles P. Halligan has been appointed his successor. 



Kentucky Station. — Benj. R. Hart has been appointed assistant in charge of 

 feed work. 



Michigan College and Station. — Alfred R. Kohler has succeeded Albert G. 

 Craig as instructor in horticulture in the college. Miss Dorothea Moxness has 

 been appointed assistant chemist in the station. A farmers' institute corn spe- 

 cial was run over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway in April. 

 The principal topics discussed were the improvement of corn and better methods 

 of corn culture. 



Montana College and Station. — Peter Koch has retired from the executive 

 board of the college and station, and has been succeeded by E. Broox Martin, of 

 Bozeman. Mr. Koch will retain the position of secretary and treasurer of the 

 hoard. Joseph B. Nelson, assistant agronomist of the Utah Station, has been 

 appointed superintendent of the dry farm experiments over the State. Seven of 

 these dry farm substations are being conducted this year, three in the northern 

 part of the State and four in the southern part. 



Nebraska College and Station. — The title of the department of agriculture has 

 been changed to department of agronomy and the scope of this department 

 enlarged to include instruction and experimentation in the chemistry of soils. 

 Alvin Keyser and E. G. Montgomery have been appointed instructors in agron- 

 omy and assistant agronomists in the station. George A. Loveland, of the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, has been made meteorologist of the station, vice G. D. Swezey, 

 resigned. F. G. Miller, professor of forestry in the State University, has been 

 appointed forester of the station. 



The station has entered into cooperation with the Bureau of .Plant Industry of 

 this Department to carry on spraying demonstrations in one orchard in each of 

 six counties to determine the profit from such spraying operations. Records will 

 be kept of the amount and quality of the fruit produced in each orchard where 

 trees are sprayed as compared with similar trees unsprayed. 



Ohio University and Station. — The legislature appropriated a total of $135,000 

 for the college of agriculture— $45,000 for land, $80,000 for buildings, and $10,000 

 for the purchase of live stock. The $80,000 for buildings will be used for a 

 judging pavilion, a cattle barn, and a horse barn, all as separate structures. 



The following appropriations for the work of the station have been made by 

 the State for the two years. 1900 and 1907: Expenses of board of control, 

 $1,600: bulletin publication, $10,500; special work in entomology, botany, hor- 

 ticulture, and chemistry. $19,000; substations for field experiments, $15,000; 



