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Alabama Caxebrake Statiox. — W. Munford, of Uniontown, Ala., has been 

 appointed a member of the board of control in place of S. H. Knight, deceased. The 

 station has begun to print short articles in local newspapers. Experiments have 

 been started for the purpose of getting a grass for winter pasturage. 



Colorado Statiox. — F. M. Rolfs has been appointed assistant horticulturist to suc- 

 ceed Carl H. Potter. A. H. Danielson, B. S., of Wyoming, has been appointed assist- 

 ant agriculturist and photographer of the station and A. F. Lindon, B. S., foreman 

 of the farm. 



CoxxECTicuT State Statiox. — George F. Campbell has resigned hig position as 

 chemist of the station and M. C. Williams has been appointed in his place. 



North Dakota College axd Statiox. —The large barn of the college and station 

 Avas destroyed by fire January 4, resulting in the loss of considerable important data 

 relating to feeding experiments. Feeding experiments will necessarily be suspended 

 until a new barn can be erected. The barn and contents were insured. 



Oklahoma College and St.\tiox. — The vacancy caused by the resignation of 

 J. G. Kerr, assistant in agriculture in the college and station, has been filled by the 

 appointment of J. S. Malone, B. S., a graduate of this college. 



South Carolina Station. — A cottage for the station foreman has l)een completed. 

 A two-story barn, 28 by 50 ft., and a building for fertilizers, with stalls for experi- 

 ments with pigs underneath, have also been completed. A chemical investigation of 

 rii*^ its products and by-products, has been partly completed, and the results will 

 soon be issued in bulletin form. 



Texas College and Station. — E. A. White, recently connected with the Baron de 

 Hirsch School at Woodbine, N. J., has succeeded A. M. Ferguson as assistant in 

 horticulture at the college and station. 



Miscellaneous. — A recent report of the Somerset County (England) Education 

 Committee, as noted in Nature, records the presentation by Lord Portman of an 

 experimental farm 5 miles from Taunton, consisting of 142 acres, 80 of which are in 

 pasture. The donor has made considerable alterations and additions to the farm 

 buildings to adapt them to the requirements of the county committee. The primary 

 object of the farm will be experiments on the profitable feeding of farm animals of 

 different kinds, and incidentally experiments will be made on the improvement of 

 land and the best method of growing various field crops. 



In a review in Nature of the last report of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, 

 Dr. ^Maxwell Masters suggested the advantage of conducting such a series of experi- 

 ments on poor soils also, so as to afford a basis for comparison. Following this sug- 

 gestion, a control station has, according to Nature, been established on a relatively 

 barren soil. 



The first number has just been received of the new Journal of Hygiene, edited by 

 Dr. George H. F. Nuttall, lecturer in bacteriology and preventive medicine in the 

 University of Caml)ridge, P^ngland. It contains, among others, papers on Pathogenic 

 microbes in milk. The red color of salted meat, x\rtificial modification of toxins, with 

 special reference to immunity, and Studies in relation to malaria. The journal will 

 appear quarterly and will be devoted mainly to original contributions. 

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