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research assistant in veterinary science in connection with the Adams fund 

 project on the investigation of immunity to hog cholera. P. L. Gainey has been 

 appointed instructor in botany. E. S. Vanatta has resigned as assistant in the 

 state soil survey to accept a position with the Bureau of Soils of this 

 Department. 



Montana Station. — D. C. Cochrane, assistant in animal nutrition in the Penn- 

 sylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition, has been, appointed assistant chemist 

 and entered upon his duties August 1. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — Fred Rasmussen has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of dairying in the college and dairyman in the station to become professor 

 of dairy husbandi-y at the Nebraska University and dairyman at the Nebraska 

 Station September 1, vice A. L. Haecker, resigned. 



New Jersey Stations. — The horse barn, dairy barn, two silos, and several 

 smaller structures were destroyed by fire July 11, causing a loss of about 

 $25,000. A considerable supply of hay and grain was consumed, but the live 

 stock was saved. The loss was covered by insurance and the work of rebuilding 

 is already luider way. It is expected that concrete structures will be erected. 



J. G. Lipman has been appointed director of the stations. Miner S. Macomber 

 has resigned as assistant chemist in the State Station and has been succeeded 

 by Willis IT. Pearson. 



New York State Station. — J. F. Barker, assistant professor of soils in the 

 Iowa College, has accepted a position as soils expert, and began his duties in 

 July. W. H. Alderman, associate horticulturist, has accepted the professorship 

 of horticulture at West Virginia University. He has been succeeded by Richard 

 Wellington, formerly assistant horticulturist, and who in turn is succeeded by 

 Charles B. Tubergen, a 1011 graduate of the Michigan College. 



Ohio University and Station. — Prof. Alfred Vivian has been designated acting 

 dean of the college of agriculture for the coming year during the absence of 

 Dean Price in Europe. Ernest D. Waid, assistant professor in agronomy, has 

 resigned to accept a position with the agricultural extension department of the 

 Massachusetts College. 



An appropriation of $7,500 was made by the recent legislature to establish a 

 poultry plant. 



A country church conference was held at the university July 25-28. The 

 morning sessions were given over to lectures on farm crops, soil fertility, and 

 horticulture, and the afternoon and evening sessions to the discussion of eco- 

 nomic, sociological, and religious topics. 



The State appropriations to the station for the biennial period 1911-12 aggi'e^ 

 gate $396,590. Of this $65,000 is for administration, $33,685 for agronomy, 

 $40,000 for animal husbandry, $17,000 for botany, $58,000 for extension work, 

 $13,600 for entomology, $19,400 for forestry, $37,000 for soil investigations, 

 $8,600 for chemistry, $31,000 for horticulture, $15,000 for nutrition, $17,200 for 

 dairying, $34,750 for new buildings, equipment, etc., and $6,355 for the purchase 

 of land. 



Recent appointments at the station include J. G. Humphrey, M. F. M. Beegle, 

 and J. E. Mensching as assistant chemists, the first-named in connection with 

 the soil investigations and the others in the nutrition investigations. A. C. 

 Whittier, assistant in nutrition investigations, has resigned to engage in com- 

 mercial work. 



Oregon College and Station. — T. D. Beckwith, of the North Dakota College 

 and Station, has been appointed professor of bacteriology and bacteriologist, 

 vice Dr. E. G. Peterson, whose resignation has been previously noted. Dr. 

 H. E. Ewing has been appointed laboratory assistant, and A. L. Lovett field 

 assistant in entomology; F. R. Brown, F. C. Bradford, and F. V. Tooley field 



