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Kansas College and Station. — Herbert F. li()l)erts has been appointed botanist 

 to succeed A. S. Hitchcock, resigned. The legislature has made a total appropriation 

 for two years of $202,253.40. Of this amount $20,493.40 is made immediately avail- 

 able, $5,000 being for the purpose of refitting the old chemical building, recently 

 burned, for a gymnasium, and nearly $15,000 to cover a deficiency occurring in the 

 fiscal year 1899. Seventy thousand dollars is given for a new physics and chemistry 

 building, and $10,000 for additions to the library. The farm department receives 

 $7,000 in 1902 and $2,000 in 1908, and $2,000 a year is given for farmers' institutes. 

 These liberal appropriations will place the college in ]>etter financial condition than it 

 has ever been before. Last year a bill passed Congress granting to the State of Kansas 

 the abandoned Fort Hays military reservation, located in Ellis County, for the pur- 

 pose of establishing an experiment station there under the supervision of the State 

 station, and a western branch of the State normal school. The State legislature has 

 accepted the reservation and has appropriated to the college $3,000 a year for two 

 years for carrying on experimental work. The reservation contains 7,600 acres of 

 land, and represents the different soils and other conditions of western Kansas. It is 

 thought to give " the finest opportunity ever offered for field tests on a large scale 

 that are applicable for the farmers of the entire western half of the State." 



Minnesota University and Station. — In addition to appropriations for current 

 expenses of the department of agriculture and the substations at Crookston and 

 Grand Rapids, the legislature which has just adjourned api^ropriated $25,000 for a 

 new chemical building, $25,000 for a new veterinary building, $12,000 for an addition 

 to the women's dormitory, $7,500 for a buililing for instruction and experiments in 

 dressing and curing meats, $3,000 for Iniildings for swine breeding, $3,000 for an 

 addition to the blacksmith shop, $3,000 for improvements in the dairy hall, and 

 $11,200 for barns and other improvements at the su])stations at Crookston and Grand 

 Rapids. An annual appropriation of $2,000 for two years was also made for the 

 introduction of agriculture into the rural schools of the State. 



Missouri University and Station. — The State legislature-has just made the larg- 

 est appropriation ever given the university, aggregating $467,400 for the biennial 

 period. It provides $40,000 for a dairy and live-stock building, and an equal amount 

 for a horticultural building and equipment. A medical building, an engineering 

 building, and a dormitory for girls are also provided for. A chair of dairy husbandry 

 is established, $1,200 given for student labor on the farm, and $3,500 to the experi- 

 ment station toward general maintenance. The legislature also made liberal 

 appropriations for libraries and laboratories, out of which the College of Agriculture 

 will receive its share, making, all told, over $100,000 for agricultural interests. 



Missouri Fruit Experiment Station. — The State legislature has appropriated 

 $26,000 for this station for two years, which includes about $6,000 for permanent 

 improvements of buildings and grounds and the remainder for salaries, traveling 

 expenses, labor, printing, and material for work. 



New Hampshire Colleoe and Station. — Clarence "\V. Waid has resigned his 

 position as assistant horticulturist to accept a similar position at the Ohio Station, 

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