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coeded by E. R. Lloyd, t'ornicrly dii'tK-tor of farmers' institutes. Archibald 

 Smith, professor of animal husbandry, has been placed in charge of the Delta 

 substation. 



Missouri University and Station. — 'I'he night school of agriculture lield by the 

 university at Kansas City in cooperation with the Frisco Lines, was attended 

 by over GOO persons. The attendance at a similar school in St. Louis was over 

 1,800. Including these two night schools and three special trains, the faculty 

 of the college of agriculture addressed over 40,000 persons during one month. 



F. W. ^yoodnlan resigned March 1 as research assistant in chemistry to 

 accept a conunercial position in Pennsylvania, and has been succeeded Iiy A. A, 

 Jones, who has been assistant in agricultural chemistry. Other recent api)oint- 

 nients include Dr. Leonard Haseman, of Cornell University, as instructor in 

 entomology, G. C. White, a senior student in the college of agriculture, as 

 assistant in dairy husbandry, and J. C. Hackleman, of Purdue University, as 

 assistant in agronomy. C. R. Moulton has been promoted to the instructorship 

 in agricultural chemistry, and L. G. Rinkle to that in dairy husbandry. 



Nebraska University and Station. — L. W. Chase, of the department of agricul- 

 tural engineering in the college of agriculture, has been added to the station 

 council, with the title of agricultural engineer, and is conducting investigations 

 in farm drainage and sanitation and the use of cement for farm purposes. 



The new substations located at Mitchell and Valentine are being equipped. 

 The Mitchell substation is to give special attention to work in irrigation and 

 dry-land agriculture, and will be conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of this Department. The land and a portion of the improve- 

 ments have been furnished by the United States Reclamation Service, and Fritz 

 Knorr has been appointed superintendent. The Valentine substantion is to 

 investigate the crops and agricultural methods adapted to the sand-hill region 

 of the State. James Cowan has been appointed superintendent of this sub- 

 station. 



New Jersey State Station. — Miner S. Macomber, a graduate of the Rhode Island 

 College, has l>een api)ointed assistant chemist in connection with the fertilizer 

 and feed inspection. 



New Mexico College and Station. — A. P. Bjerregaard, assistant in chemistry, 

 resigned Felyruary 1. 



Cornell University. — liills have passwl the legislature granting .$11.3,000 for a 

 general class room and auditorium building, .$00,000 for a poultry building, and 

 $154,000 for a home economics building. 



North Dakota College and Station. — -W. C. Palmer, dean of agriculture at 

 Winona College, has been appointed agricultural editor in the department of 

 college extension, and A. McMeans. of the Ontario Agricultural College, has 

 been apiwinted assistant in horticulture. G. A. Abbott, assistant professor of 

 organic chemistry in the college, has accepted an a])pointment as head of the 

 chemical department at the University of North Dakota, and has been succeeded 

 by E. E. Ware, assistant professor of industrial chemistry at the University of 

 Michigan. A. F. Schalk, of the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department, 

 has been appointed professor of comparative physiology in the veterinary col- 

 lege and has entered upon his duties, which will include both instruction and 

 experimental work. 



Plans have been accepted for the new chemistry building, a seed house at the 

 Dickinson substation to cost $.3,500, and a residence at the Hettinger substation. 

 An enlai'gement of the shee]) barns has been authorized. 



The plant-breeding work is to be enlarged and extended. A centgener planter 

 has i-ecently been procured for use in the woi'k. The veterinary department is 

 preparing to distribute hog-cholera serum. Extensive poultry experiments are 



