EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



Cknsus ncr.r.KTiN- Xo 11, March 19, 1801 (pp 12).— A pvpliminaTy t--pr>rf oti truck 

 faniiiiif,', by J. 11. J laic. " Llpward of .•}; 100,000,000 are invented in this industry, tlie 

 annual products reaching a value of $70,517,155 on the farms after paying froi<^lits 

 and commissions, realized upon 5;M,440 acres of land. There are employed in this 

 industry '21(),7(;5 men, 9,254 women, and 14,874 children, aided by 75,800 horses and 

 mules, and 18,971,206.70 worth of implements." 



CoLoKADO College and Station.— C. L. lugersoU, M. S., has resigned his position 

 as president of the college and director of the station, and has been elected professor 

 of agriculture at the Nebraska University, and will act as station agriculturist. 

 After June 1 mail should be addressed to him there. Walter J. Quick, B. S., has 

 been appointed professor of agriculture in the college and agriculturist to the station. 

 B. C. BuHiini, B. S., assistant in irrigation engineering and meteorology, has resigned 

 to become agriculturist and meteorologist of the Wyoming Station. E. H. McDowell, 

 B. S., assistant agriculturist, has resigned to become agriculturist and meteorologist 

 in the Nevada Station. A new substation, located at Divide, was opened March 1, in 

 charge of G. F. Brenninger. 



CoxxKcricuT Storks Station.— In the station statf as reorganized C. D. Woods, 

 B. S., is vice-director and chemist; C. S. Phelps, B. S., agriculturist; H. B. Gibson, 

 B. A., assistant chemist; E. A. Bailey, assistant agriculturist ; andC. B. Lane, assist- 

 ant in farm experiments. Mr. Phelps has also been elected professor of agriculture in 

 the Storrs School. 



Illinois Station.— Hon. La Fayette Funk, of Bloomington, Illinois, who has suc- 

 ceeded G. S. Haskell as president of the State board of agriculture, has also taken his 

 place on the governing board of the station. E. H. Farrington, M. 8., has been 

 appointed chemist of the station, and has taken the place of C. Bennett, M. A., on 

 the governing board. E. K. Nelson has been made assistant chemist. 



Michigan Station.— Arthur G. Blackstein, M. D., who was appointed pathologist 

 of the station, as mentioned in Experiment Station Record, Vol. II, p. 400, has declined 

 the appointment, having decided to spend two years more in Germany. 



Minnesota Station.— N. W. McLain, LL. B., has resigned the directorship of the 

 station. E. F. Batten served as acting director until the apjxiintmont of C. D. Smith, 

 M. S., as director. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — The prospect of the removal of the 

 college and station in the near future will prevent additions to buildings or radical 

 changes in lines of work. Entomology is to be made a piominent feature of the 

 work of the station. 



New Yoiuv Coknkll Station.— The board of trustees at its last meeting decided 

 to largely increase the plant of the dairy and the provisions both for instruction and 

 for experimenting in dairy hust)andry. The scheme contemplates the organization 

 of a department of dairy husl)andry and animal industry, with the appointment of a 

 professor and the enlargement of the course of instruction to exten<l throughout the 

 year. Original investigation ami experiuu^ntation will be strong features of the 

 instruction. C. D. Smith, M. S., who recently accepted the position of director of 

 Arkansas Station, has since become director of the Minnesota Station. 



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