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Alabama Canebrake Station. — The State appropriation to the station has been 

 increased from $2,500 to $4,000 per annum. An entirely new board of control 

 has been apjiointed. no member of which, under a recent law, can succeed 

 himself. The personnel of the new board is as follows : R. R. Poole, O. L. 

 Woodfin, and C. L. Johnston, all of Uniontown, for terms of five, four, and two 

 years, i-espectively ; John C. Webb, of Demopolis, for three years; and Frank I. 

 Derby, of Whitfield, for one year. 



F. D. Stevens has resigned as director, this taking effect September 1, and 

 has been succeeded by W. H. Moore. 



Idaho University and Station. — F. D. Farrell resigned as director of exten- 

 sion work in south Idaho and superintendent of the southern Idaho substations 

 on July 1.5 to take up worli in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Depart- 

 ment. Walter H. Olin has been appointed director of the extension department 

 and entered upon his duties August 1, with headquarters at Boise. 



Iowa College and Station. — H. C. Cosgriff has been appointed field superin- 

 tendent in the agronomy and soils department of the station to succeed L. W. 

 Forman, who has been appointed instructor in soils. William G. Gaessler has 

 been appointed assistant chemist and L. A. Maynard assistant in chemistry. 



Louisiana Stations. — J. M. Jennings and S. Byall, graduates of the Mississippi 

 College, have been appointed assistant chemists at the State Station. 



Maine University. — H. G. Bell has resigned as professor of agronomy to 

 accept a commercial position, and has been succeeded by George E. Simmons, 

 formerly associate professor of farm management. W. A. Brown, assistant 

 professor of poultry husbandry, has resigned to become poultry expert for the 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture. 



Maryland College and Station. — C. P. Close has resigned as professor of horti- 

 culture and horticulturist to accept a position in connection with the pomo- 

 logical investigations of this Department. W. E. Hanger, a 1911 graduate of 

 the Ohio State University, has been appointed assistant agronomist. 



Minnesota University and Station. — R. H. Williams has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of animal husbandry in the university and assistant animal 

 husbandman in the station. 



Missouri University and Station. — ^A poultry department has been organized 

 for both instruction and experimental work in poultry husbandry and poultry 

 diseases. H. L. Kempster, instructor in poultry husbandry at the Michigan 

 College, has been appointed assistant professor of poultry husbandry, and will 

 be in charge of the department. 



The veterinary department is actively engaged in the hog-cholera campaign, 

 sending out over 54,000 doses of serum during the first eight months of 1911. 

 During August alone 15,000 hogs were inoculated and a force of four men is 

 now in the field in the most heavily infected counties. It is believed that at 

 least double the State appropriation of $25,000 for the work is ueing saved 

 monthly to the farmers of the State. 

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