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Michigan Station. — At a recent meeting of the State Board of Agriculture 

 the superinfendcnce of the South Haven Suhstation was placed in charge of 

 the station horticulturist. 



Minnesota University and Station. — J. A. A'ye, instructor in farm accounts, sec- 

 retary of the school of agriculture and the station, and treasurer of the school 

 of agriculture, has resigned to engage in commercial work in Oregon. 



Missouri University and Station. — Courses in poultry husbandry and agricul- 

 tural journalism are being offered for the tirst time. The college of agriculture 

 is also cooperating with the Frisco Lines in holding a night school of agriculture 

 in St. Louis. The auditorium originally secured proved insutficieut to accommo- 

 date the public desirous of attending. A simflar school is also contemplated tor 

 Kansas City. 



Charles T. Bearing, assistant in horticulture in the university and station, 

 has accepted a position as scientific assistant in the viticultural investigations 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, and has entered upon his 

 duties. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — At the April meeting of the board of 

 trustees, E. I). Sanderson, whose resignation as director was called for last 

 fall, to take place in the middle of the year, but who was retained as entomolo- 

 gist of the college and station, was dropped from the budget for the coming 

 year. He will retire at the close of this college year. 



New Jersey State Station. — Clarence L. Pfersch has resigned as assistant 

 chemist. 



North Dakota College. — The department of botany has i)repared for sale at a 

 nominal ]irice to ]iublic schools a set of 20 mounted si)ecimens illustrating the 

 more connnon plant diseases. 



Ohio Station. — Joseph I). Guthery, of Marion, has been appointed to the board 

 of control, vice Dr. W. I. Chamberlain. At the annual reorganization of the 

 board on March 9, John Courtright was reelected president, H. L. Goll, secretai'y, 

 and D. L. Sampson, treasurer. 



Oklahoma Station. — The resignation of J. A. Craig as director is announced, 

 to take effect :\Iay 1. 



Porto Rico University. — J. W. Hart, who was chosen dean of the college of 

 agriculture in October, has severed his connection with the institution. 



Utah College and Station. — The college has I'ecently purchased a small herd of 

 pure-bred Holstein cattle for use in class room and experimental work. P. V. 

 Cardon, assistant agronomist in the station, has resigned to accept a position 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Dei)artment, and will have charge of 

 the cooperative work between the station and that Bureau which is being 

 carried on at the dry farming substation at Nephi. 



Virginia Truck Station. — P. T. Cole, a 1910 graduate of the college of agri- 

 culture of the University of Missouri, has accepted the position of assistant 

 horticulturist, vice C. S. Heller, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



Minnesota Conservation Congress. — What is reported to have been the first 

 state conservation congress ever held occurred at St. Paul, March 16-19. The 

 congress aroused much interest, especially among farmers, of whom it is esti- 

 mated that over 3,000 were in attendance. 



Among the speakers were Governor A. O. Eberhardt. who presided. Arch- 

 bishop Ireland, James J. Hill, Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, Director 

 George Otis Smith of the Geological Survey, Dr. H. W. Wiley of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry of this Department, D. J. Crosby of this Office. President Cyrus 

 ISTorthrop and Dean Woods of the University of Minnesota, and several other 

 members of the university and station staff. Special attention was given to the 

 agricultui-al phases of the problem of conservation, and a notable feature was 



