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extended during the present season with special reference to their value in a system 

 for soiling for dairy cattle. 



South Carolixa Station. — At a recent meeting the board orderetl the entire 

 separation of college and station cattle, and decided to purchase first-class specimens 

 of four breeds for experimental work. The veterinarian has in progress an experi- 

 ment in rendering young cattle immune to Texas fever by inoculation. The 

 exiseriments which the station has been making in the preparation of sweet potatoes 

 for commerce and for army rations have proved very promising and will l)e continued 

 on a larger scale. 



Texas College and Station.— At the recent session of the legislature an appro- 

 priation of §3,000 was provided for additions to the equipment of the agricultural 

 building, erected in 1900, which mone}' is immediately available and will be used for 

 class-room appliances, apparatus, and special forms of scientific equipment for the 

 college and station, the general equiiament of the building having been already sup- 

 plied. A bill appropriating §30,000 for additional State stations passed the senate 

 and was favorably reported by the house committee on agriculture, but its final con- 

 sideration was postponed until the special session of the legislature to be convened 

 next August, as were also the appropriations for the purchase of improved breeds of 

 live stock (§10,000) and for erecting a veterinary-chemical laboratory (§31',000). 

 The Beeville Station was provided for at the former rate, §2,500 per animm, with the 

 privilege of using the proceeds from sales of crops and products. 



Virginia Station. — John Spencer, D. Y. S., of Canada, has been appointed assist- 

 ant veterinarian of the station, in place of H. Bannister, resigned. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The legislature of Wisconsin, recently 

 adjourned, appropriated §150,000 for a central building for the college of agriculture. 

 Plans for the proposed building were presented to the legislature for their consider- 

 ation. There will be the general offices of the college of agriculture, several museum 

 rooms, a librarj' and reading room, a general audience room seating 700, and labora- 

 tories for the departments of agricultural chemistry and agricultural bacteriology. 

 It is proposed to locate the new building on Observatory Hill near the dairy ami 

 horticultural buildings. Like the other distinctly agricultural college buildings it 

 will be heated from a central heating plant now completed. As the building is to 

 be provided for from funds raised by taxation, it will probably be two years before 

 it is completed. 



Miscellaneous. — The following notice has been received from the Federation of 

 Agricultural Unions in Italy {Federazione Italiana del Consorzi Agra7'i) regarding a 

 prize offered by the federation for a method for the determination of the fineness of 

 flowers of sulphur and of mixtures of sulphur and copper sulphate such as are used 

 in fungicides and insecticides: "Although of late years there has been considerable 

 progress in the methods of preparation of the different sorts of sulphur used for com- 

 bating diseases of plants, and the demand, in consequence, has greatly increased, the 

 methods actually employed for estimating the degree of fineness of these preparations 

 are now antiquated and leave much to be desired, especially as regards the mixtures 

 of sulphur and copper suli)hate. The Federation of the Agricultural Unions of Italy, 

 together with the Agricultural Unions of Padua and Florence, considering the neces- 

 sity of encouraging special studies on this subject, and having obtained contril>utions 

 from many other agricultural unions, has now decided to open an intei'national 

 prize competition for the sum of 1,000 francs in gold, to be awarded to the person who 

 discovers and makes public the best method for obtaining exact and constant results 

 in the determination of the fineness of the flowers of sulphur and of mixtures of sul- 

 phur and copper sulphate. Competitors must send in their papers in a sealed envelope 

 to the head oflice of the federation ( Ufficio dlrettiro della Federazione Italifout dei Con- 

 sorzi agrari, Fiacenza-Italy) before March 1, 1902. The papers will lie examined by 

 a special commission to be named by the Reale Accademia dei Lincei-Rome whose 

 decision will be without appeal. Piacenza. 1st March. 1901. E. Cavalieri, i^resident; 

 G. Raineri, director." 



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