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assistant professors White, Needbaiu, Fleuiiuf;, Love, iaul Gilbert to full i)r<»- 

 fessorsliips. and Messrs. Knudson and Beal to assistant professorships. E. 

 Gorton Davis has been appointed assistant professor of rural art and liay E. 

 Deuel instructor in animal husbandry. A dei)artnient of rural education is in 

 la'ocess of organization, as is also a deparlnicnt of meteorology in its relations 

 to agriculture. 



Two buildings are under construction, the home economics building, for 

 which the State has appropriated $154,000, and the poultry building for whicli 

 $90,000 is available. Plans are being prepared for an auditorium for which 

 $138,000 is authorized, a heating plant to cost $50,000, and a general horse barn 

 to cost $20,000. To make room for the home economics building the old college 

 barns, built many years ago by Professor lioberts, have been taken d<^)wn. A 

 temporary farm mechanics laboratory has been constructed and an amphi- 

 theater for outdoor classes erected in the parli in the rear of the college 

 buildings. 



The publication of the Announcer of the College of Agriculture has been 

 begun. This is to be issued monthly with a view to acquainting the people of 

 the State with the worlc in progress. It will contain notes on investigations 

 and extension enterprises under way. suggestions as to worlc in rural schools, 

 reading courses, and other lines of interest. A specific object in view is the 

 inclusion of brief summaries of the forthcoming station bulletins. The mailing 

 lists are to be classified and henceforth only those publications of general inter- 

 est will be sent to the entire list, except upon request. In this way it is hoped 

 to lessen materially the expense of publication of i-esults. 



Oregon College and Station. — Plans are being drawn for the new dairy build- 

 ing which it is estimated will cost $30,000. The exterior will be of brick and 

 stone and the floor of the first story of concrete. The milk, churning, refrige- 

 rator, separator, cream, cheese, and wash rooms, as Avell as the general offices, 

 will be located on tlie first floor, and the milk-testing laboratoiy, class rooms, 

 and shops on the second floor. 



Recent additions to the station staff include F. C Reimer. of the North 

 Carolina College and Station, as superintendent of the Southern Oregon sub- 

 station ; R. H. Robinson as research assistant in chemistry ; and L. R. 3reit- 

 haupt as superintendent of the substation at Harney. F. L. Griffin, research 

 assistant in plant pathology, has resigned. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — The station has made an exhibit illus- 

 trating some of its work in agronomy and also in feeding ducks and in poultry 

 diseases at the chamber of commerce exposition in Boston, which continued 

 through the month of October. The college has shown some of the results of 

 its school garden work in the same connection. 



J. I. Falconer has resigned as assistant agronomist to engage in graduate 

 study at the University of Wisconsin. 



Texas Station. — David B. Clarkson, of Chicago, has donated $1,000 per annum 

 to be used for cotton breeding and improvement work. It is hoped to supple- 

 ment this with other funds and thereby to employ a cotton specialist for 

 original research. 



The position of agriculturist has been abolished, and H. L. McKnight, who 

 formerly held the position, will be designated hereafter as superintendent of 

 the station farm. A. B. Conner, of the Office of Forage Crops of this Depart- 

 ment, has been appointed agronomist. 



Washington College and Station. — Under a change in organization, effective 

 October 1, R. Kent Beattie has been relieved of station work in order to devote 

 his entire time to instruction. The department of botany of the station has 

 been abolished, and a department of plant pathology created in its stead with 



