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Alabama College. — T^. N. Duncan, recently transferred from the assistant 

 professorship of agriculture to the professorship of agricultural school work, 

 is making a tour of the State for the purpose of organizing boys' corn-growing 

 -clubs. This work has been successfully carried on in Tuskaloosa and Calhoun 

 counties, and will now be extended throughout the State. A leading purpose 

 is to interest the county school superintendents and through them get the work 

 introdurod in the rural schools. 



Tuskegee Institute. — More than 2,000 farmers and their families attended the 

 annual farmers' conference in January. In connection with the conference a 

 meeting of agricultural workers in the various negro colleges and schools was 

 held for the purpose of forming a permanent association of such workers to 

 consider methods of instruction in agriculture and related topics. The program 

 consisted of papers and addresses on the management of school farms, organi- 

 zation of departments of agriculture in negro schools, experimental work on 

 school farms, agricultural extension work, how to encourage students to take 

 agrieultui-al courses, and the training of teachers of agriculture. 



Connecticut State Station. — Donald J. Caffrey, a graduate student of the 

 Massachusetts College, has been appointed assistant in entomology and has 

 entered upon his duties, which for the present will be largely in connection 

 with the gipsy moth campaign. E. M. Stoddard, a graduate student of the 

 ■Connecticut College, has been appointed assistant in botany. 



Georgia Station. — Dr. L. J. Herring has been appointed animal pathologist 

 and veterinarian, and entered upon his duties .January 1. 



Guam Station. — Considerable progress in clearing station land is reported. 

 During the fall nearly the entire area has been brought under cultivation, roads 

 liave been laid out, and fences built. A small plantation of coffee, comprising 

 approximately one acre of hill land, has been established with a view to dem- 

 onstrating the practicability of cultivating the relatively large areas of land of 

 this class which are now unused. Several acres of newly prepared land have 

 been seeded to forage crojis. vegetables, etc., and the general appearance of the 

 station has been considerably improved. 



Iowa College and Station. — H. C. Pierce has resigned as poultryman to accept 

 a position with this Department in connection with its investigations on market 

 poultry. L. G. Michael has resigned as chemist to accept a position with the 

 Russian Government as special expert in connection with corn breeding work 

 in Bessarabia. J. H. Criswell, of the farm crops department, has accepted an 

 appointment as agronomist at the Winona College of Agriculture, at Winona, 

 Ind. ; and B. W. Crossley, assistant professor of farm crops, retired January 1. 

 M. L. Wilson has been appointed assistant in farm crops in the extension 

 division. 



Kansas College and Station.— A department for the investigation of problems 

 ■dealing with the handling and milling of grain has been established, with L. A. 

 Pitz, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, in charge. An 



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