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A state drainage law was passed which provides for drainage districts on 

 much the same plan as under the North Carolina law. A loan fund of $10,000 

 is made available for the purpose. 



Dr. B. M. Bolton has been appointed bacteriologist of the station to carry on 

 investigations on poultry diseases. 



Mississippi Station. — A. F. Rolf has succeeded W. F. Kirkpatrick as poultry- 

 man, and C. F. Briscoe, of the University of Illinois, has been appointed bac- 

 teriologist. 



Cornell University. — The legislature has made appropriations to the college 

 of agriculture aggregating $907,000, of which $788,000 is made immediately 

 available. Of this amount $329,000 is for the erection of new buildings for the 

 use of the departments of forestry, agronomy, and animal husbandry, $182,000 

 for the completion of work already under way, and the remainder for current 

 maintenance and similar expenses. 



An eight-car agricultural special train, equipped by the college of agriculture, 

 was sent out from April 2 to 12 over the lines of the Delaware and Hudson 

 Railroad Company. One car was fitted up for an exhibition and demonstrations 

 of insect pests and fungus diseases, another for poultry husbandry, a third 

 for home economics and human nutrition, and a fourth for dairying. Half- 

 day or evening stops were made at about 20 localities, and the total attendance 

 appi'oximated 20,000. 



Recent appointments include C. G. Woodbury, of Purdue University, as pro- 

 fessor of pomology, and Hugh C. Troy as professor of dairy industry. The 

 following promotions are also announced: From assistant professor to pro- 

 fessor, J. A. Bizzell in soil technology, W. A. Riley and G. W. Herrick in en- 

 tomology, H. W. Riley in farm mechanics, and H. E. Ross in dairy industry; 

 from instructor to assistant professor, L. J. Cross in agricultural chemistry, 

 Robert Matheson and George C. Embody in entomology, Arthur L. Thompson 

 in farm management, and Ralph H. Wheeler in extension teaching. 



Filibert Roth, whose appointment to the chair of forestry was recently noted, 

 has reconsidered his acceptance and will remain at the University of Michigan 

 where additional facilities for the forestry school are to be provided. 



Ohio State University. — A public sheep shearing contest, thought to have 

 been the first of the kind in this country, was held at the university April 5. 

 E. F. Rinehart has resigned as instructor in dairying. 



Washington College. — The college has purchased the creamery department of 

 a local bottling works, with equipment consisting of three large cold storage 

 rooms, a manufacturing and ice cream room, machinery, etc. The college will 

 continue to operate the plant and will also install butter making machinery. 



Wyoming University. — Dr. C. A. Duniway, of the University of Montana, has 

 been elected president in succession to Dr. Charles O. Merica, whose resignation 

 has been previously noted. 



Agricultural library Section of American Library Association. — The first 

 meeting of this section is to be held in connection with the annual conference 

 of the American Library Association, at Ottawa, June 26 to July 2. The tenta- 

 tive program includes a paper on library extension work of the state agricul- 

 tural colleges, a discussion of administrative policies in agricultural college 

 and experiment station libraries, descriptions of various types of these libraries, 

 and a symposium on recent reference books and new periodicals. 



Pennsylvania Rural Life Conference. — The initial meeting of this organiza- 

 tion was held in Philadelphia, March 14 to 16, with President Sparks, of the 

 Pennsylvania State College, as chairman. A large number of speakers were 

 heard, among them Dean Hunt of the Pennsylvania College, A. C. Monahan of 

 the United States Bureau of Education, Dean Bailey of Cornell University, 



