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Delaware Station. — Thomas F. Manns, soil bacteriologist of the Ohio Station, 

 has accepted tlie position of plant pathologist and soil bacteriologist beginning 

 April 1. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — ^The new entomology building has been com- 

 pleted and the equipment of the department installed. The poultry buildings 

 and the greenhouses have also been occupied, and experimental work has been 

 started in poultry husbandry and floriculture. 



Alfred S. Cook, of the Dairy Division of this Department, has been appointed 

 dairy husbandman of the State Station. Walter W. Shute, farm foreman in the 

 State Station and instructor in the short courses in agriculture, resigned Novem- 

 ber 1, 1911, to accept a position as farm manager. Vincent J. Carberry, assist- 

 ant chemist in the fertilizer department, who has been on leave of absence, died 

 November 24, 1911, at the age of 33 years, 18 of which had been in connection 

 with the station. 



Cornell University. — The poultry husbandry building, for which a State ap- 

 propriation of .$90,000 is available, is now under construction. A three-story 

 and basement building is planned to accommodate classes of from two to three 

 hundred. The structure is to be 1.32 feet long, 48 feet wide in the center, and 37 

 feet wide at the ends. 



The first floor and basement are given over to the practice courses, receiving 

 room, killing room, egg-testing and handling rooms, and the commercial phases 

 of administration. The second floor contains general and private offices and 

 laboratories, a library and exhibition room, a seminar room, and headquarters 

 for the university poultry association. On the third floor are a large lecture 

 room, laboratories, a photographic room, and a recitation room. Auxiliary 

 incubator and brooder houses and a judging pavilion are also projected, to be 

 constructed adjoining the building. 



Ohio Station. — C. C. Hayden, assistant professor of dairy husbandry at the 

 Illinois University and assistant chief of dairying in the Illinois Station, has 

 accepted the position of chief in dairying. The station is being asked for advice 

 in the management of the large dairy herds belonging to some of the state hos- 

 pitals and similar institutions under a new law which has unified the manage- 

 ment of these institutions and authorizes them to call on the station for such 

 service. 



Oregon College. — Mrs. Margaret P. Macpherson, of the :^Iichigan College, has 

 been appointed instructor in botany. 



Porto Rico Sugar Planters' Station. — T. H. Jones, of the Bureau of Entomology 

 of this Department, has been appointed assistant entomologist. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — Benjamin F. Eobinsou, of Wakefield, has 

 been appointed to succeed Jesse V. B. Watson on the board of managers. 



The board of visitors has just rendered a report very favorable to the work of 

 the college, in which it recommends even more liberal provision for buildings 

 and equipment than had been contemplated. A bill has just been introduced in 

 the general assembly, which provides for an appropriation of $75,000 for a new 

 science building to accommodate the departments of botany, zoology, geology, 

 chemistry, and bacteriology of the college and the division of biology of the 

 experiment station. 



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