NOTES. 



Arizona Uxiversity. — The last legislature gave the university $25,000 for a library 

 building, and $30,000 for two years for maintenance. 



Connecticut State Station. — W. C. Sturgis, botanist of the station, has been 

 given six months' leave of absence. 



Colorado Station. — George H. Glover, B. S., D. V. M., has been made professor 

 of veterinary science. The president and secretary of the governing board and the 

 president of the college have been reelected, the latter for a period of two years. 



Idaho Station. — The governing board of the station, under a new law passed at 

 the recent legislature, has T)een reduced to five members, and is at present comprised 

 of the following members: President, John B. Goode, Co?ur d'Alene; vice-president, 

 Mrs. ]\Iary E. Ridenbaugh, Boise; secretary, George C. Parkinson, Preston; J. W. 

 Jones, Blackfoot; and Henry E. Wallace, Caldwell. Their terms of office, under the 

 law, range from two to six years. 



Illinois University and Station. — The Illinois general assembly has appropri- 

 ated §40,000 per annum for the next two years for the extension of the work of the 

 station. The bill specifies the following lines of work: Experiments with corn, 

 110,000; soil investigations, $10,000; investigations in horticulture, $10,000; experi- 

 ments in stock feeding, $8,000; dairy experiments, $5,000; sugar-beet exjjeriments, 

 $3,000. Any revenues which may accrue from these experiments revert to their 

 respective funds. The college of agriculture receives $10,000 for furnishing the new 

 agricultural Vmilding, $8,000 per annum for the purchase of live stock, and $6,000 for 

 increase in instructional Avork. The station chemical laboratory in the new agricul- 

 tural l)uilding is now furnished and occupied. It consists of a general laboratory, a 

 special laboratory, 1 workroom, 1 storeroom for chemicals and apparatus, and another 

 for samples for analysis, and an office. The new building was dedicated May 21, 1901. 

 The jDrincipal addresses were made Ijy Prof. Thomas F. Hunt, of Ohio, an alumnus 

 of the college, and by Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, and brief addresses were 

 made by Dr. Thomas J. Burrill, Prof. E. Davenport, and representatives of various 

 farmers' and breeders' organizations of the State. There was a large attendance 

 from out of town, representing nearly every agricultural organization and interest in 

 the State, among others the Illinois Farmers' Institute, the Dairymen's Association, 

 the State Horticultural Society, the Live Stock Breeders' Association, the Corn 

 Breeders' Association, the Corn Growers' Association, and the Sugar Beet Association. 

 The occasion was one of general good feeling and of satisfaction at the increased 

 facilities for instruction, and also at the largely increased funds both for instruction 

 and investigation. The most flattering assurances were given of liberal support in 

 the future. 



Nebra.ska Station. — A. L. Haecker has been appointed dairy husbandman on the 

 staff of the station, having charge of the newly created department of dairy husbandry. 



Pennsylvania Station. — B. P. Lundy has resigned his position as fellow in dairy 

 husbandry to accept a position in Haddonfield, N. J. A repetition of the feeding 

 experiment with steers made last winter, comparing the effects of feeding in pens 

 and stalls, with and without a supply of water, has just been completed. As a sup- 

 plement to this experiment, an attempt is being made to compare the value of the 

 manure actually produced by these several methods of handling. The ol>servations 

 on forage plants which have been made in previous years are to be continued and 



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