66 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



centers for suj)plying- farmers with seed grains, for demonstrations 

 of better management, etc. Meetings are held on the demonstration 

 farms during the season. The station also had 1,G00 pedigreed- 

 barley centers the past year, where enough seed was sent to grow an 

 acre of the improved seed, for purposes of distributing it. 



Provision has been made in Wyoming for dry-farming demon- 

 strations by an appropriation of $5,000, the adaptability of soil and 

 climate for the production of different classes of grains and grasses, 

 and for the growth of shade, ornamental, and fruit trees under 

 "Wyoming conditions to receive special attention. 



Seed-testing laboratories for testing seed for farmers have been 

 located at several of the experiment stations by the Department of 

 Agriculture, and are conducted in cooperation with the stations 



CHANGES IN PERSONNEL. 



The year was marked by important changes at several of the sta- 

 tions, in a number of which the welfare of the institution was tem- 

 porarily involved. 



Prof. C. H. Fernald, for 24 years entomologist of the Massachusetts 

 station, and for many years previous connected with the Maine Agri- 

 cultural College, retired from active duties in the station and the 

 graduate school of the college, being succeeded by Dr. H. T. Fernald ; 

 and at the Michigan college and station Dr. AV. J. Beal retired after 

 40 years of continuous service as botanist, being succeeded by Dr. 

 E. A. Bessey, of the University of Louisiana. 



Prof. Harry Snyder, for many years in charge of agricultural 

 chemistry at the Minnesota University and station, resigned during 

 the year to engage in commercial work. 



Prof. AV. L. Carlyle, formerly of the Colorado college and station, 

 was appointed director of the Idaho station, and entered upon his 

 duties January 1, 1910. Prof. C. P. Gillette, entomologist of the 

 Colorado station, was appointed director to succeed Prof. L. G. 

 Carpenter, resigned ; and in New Hampshire Prof. J. C. Kendall, of 

 the Kansas college and station, was appointed director of the station 

 and entered upon his duties September 10. J. W. Fox succeeded 

 W. L. Hutchinson as director of the Mississippi station, and Prof. 

 H. G. Knight was appointed director of the Wyoming station, vice 

 J. D. Towar. 



The necrology list is an unusually long one. It includes two 

 notable figures in the history of agricultural education and research 

 in this countr}^ — Dr. Charles A. Goessmann, of Massachusetts, and 

 Dr. William PI. Brewer, of Connecticut, who passed away soon after 

 the close of the year. Notices of these two men are given hereafter. 

 Col. W. M. Liggett, who retired from the position of dean and 



