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held December 15 installing the name of Mr. McCormick in the Hall of Fame. 

 The ceremonies included the unveiling of a portrait, and addresses by GoA-ernor 

 Deneen, President Grout of the commission, Dean Davenport, and others. 



Louisiana Stations. — Dr. P. A. Yoder has resigned as research chemist at the 

 Sugar Station. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — S. C. Damon, of the Rhode Island Station, 

 has been succeedtHl on the board of trustees by H. L. Frost, of Arlington, who 

 has also been chosen to the committee on the station. W. H. P.owker has been 

 succeeded on this committee l\v Charles H. Ward. 



E. K. Eyerly, Ph. D., has been appointed assistant professor of political science 

 and lecturer in rural sociologj-, vice George N. Ilolcomb, who is to continue as 

 lecturer in political science. Fred W. Morse, formerly of the ^ew Hampshire 

 College and Station, has been appointed research chemist in the station and 

 entered upon his duties January 18. For the present his work will be chiefly 

 connected with the asparagus investigations. 



Missouri University. — The new agricultural hall was dedicated December 28, 

 addresses being made by Governor Herbert S. Hadley, President A. Ross Hill, 

 of the uni\ersity. Dean Mumford, and representatives of various state boards 

 and societies. The exercises were followed in the evening by the sixth annual 

 banquet to the farmers of the State, this completing the programme for the 

 annual Farmers' Week. 



The Wabash Railroad has offered to each of the IS counties in the Slate 

 through which its lines run a scholarship of $50 in the short winter courses. 



Nebraska University. — Claude K. Shedd has been appointed instructor in 

 farm mechanics. 



Nevada Station. — Charles S. Knight, assistant in agronomy at the Kansas 

 College, has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy, and has entered 

 upon his duties. 



North Dakota College and Station. — Fire of unknown origin destroyed the 

 chemical laboratory building on the evening of December 24, causing a loss on 

 building and e<piipment estimated at .$(J3,(MX). 



Cornell University and Station.— A fruit special was sent out December 6 on a 

 trip of nearly 600 miles, during which it made 76 stops and was visited by 

 about 15,000 people, many of them school children and city residents. The 

 illustrative material "was made ui) largely of an extensive exhibit of New York 

 apples packed in California standard boxes, a collection of 150 varieties of 

 apples from all over the United States, and an exhibit of the more prevalent 

 plant and insect pests. 



The third annual Farmers' AVeek was held at the college February 7-12. 

 Among the special features this year were a state potato show, judging demon- 

 strations of live stock, fruit, and other farm produce, a boys' and girls' corn 

 congress, potato and alfalfa schools, meetings of the drainage and plant 

 breeders' associations and the experimenters' league, a poultry institute and 

 exhibit, and a housekeepers' conference. 



A second industrial fellowship has been established in the depai-tment of 

 plant pathology, to which V. B. Stewart, a 1909 graduate of Wabash College, 

 has been appointed. This fellowship is limited to two years, and has for its 

 p'rpose the investigation of the diseases of nursery stock, esi)ecially fire blight. 



Ohio University and Station. — The college, the station, and the state board of 

 agriculture operated an educational train in southeastern and southern Ohio 

 during the last two weeks in January, covering a distance of about 500 miles. 

 Lectures were given in fruit growing, dairying, and forestry. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — Homer Cloukey and Hiram A. 

 Dodge, 1909 graduates, respectively, of the Oklahoma College and the Uni- 



