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Tlio funds from the Adams Aft and increasod State appropriations have 

 (nai)lcd u more clearly detined distinction between the experimental, instruc- 

 tional, and extension work than has formerly been the case. Thirteen of the 

 members of the staff will devote their time exclusively to station work. Eight 

 ( f the members of the instruction staff will devote their time exclusively to in- 

 struction work. The heads of departments will have the general directicm of 

 the work in both lines, but the assistants are in most cases assigned definitely to 

 one field or the other. 



Kansas College and Station. — ('. W. Burkett, of the Ohio State University, has 

 been elected director (if the station, and entered upon the duties of his position 

 Septemlter 1. (". (). Swanson, assistant chemist of the Indiana Station, has 

 been elected assistant chemist, his -term of service beginning September .1. 

 W. E. Mathewson, assistant in chemistry in the college and station, has 

 resigned his position and will spend the next year or two in study. C. W. 

 Melick, assistant in dairying for the past two years, has resigned to accept a 

 jiosition at the Maryland College and Station. 



Special trains for the imi)rovement of wheat growing were run through the 

 wheat belt over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Kailway and Union Pacifie 

 Kaihvay during August. The trains were provided by the railroads, and the 

 other expenses were borne by them to a large extent. Meetings were held in 

 the coaches during the day and at halls in the evening where practicable. 

 ]\Iuch interest was taken by the farmers in these meetings, and it is believed 

 that they will be of material benefit to the wheat growers. 



Maryland Station. — V. M. Novik, of Cornell, has been appointed assistant in 

 the horticultural work under the State appropriation. George P. Weldon, of 

 Fort Collins, Colo., has been appointed assistant entomologist and assigned to 

 the State work. F. H. Blodgett, assistant botanist and pathologist, has been 

 granted one year's leave of absence, and E. I. Lichti, of Columbus, Ohio, has 

 been appointed to fill this vacancy. V. JNI. Shoesniith, now associate agronomist 

 at the Kansas Station, has been appointed agronomist of this station, to take 

 effect .January 1, 1907. This work has been carried on by Professor Taliaferro, 

 who in the future will confine himself to college work. W. N. Ilutt has resigned 

 the position of horticulturist to accept a similar place in North Canilina. Ilis 

 resignation takes effect November 1. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Clark Hall, the new botanical building 

 provided for by the last session of the legislature, is now in process of erection. 

 The appropriation for the building is .$4.5.000. It will be 45 by 95 ft. in dimen- 

 sions, and two stories in height above a basement, and with an attic which will 

 contain several good rooms. The base will be of granite and the rest of the 

 building of red brick with marble trinnnings. The roof will be of copper and 

 slate. The building will be of slow-burning construction, and special ])rovision 

 will be made in the construction of the desks and other laboratory fittings to 

 avoid fire hazard. 



The last State legislature appropriated iji.l.OOO for normal work at the college, 

 as a result of the report of the industrial couuuission. made last summer. The 

 exact character of this work has not yet been determined upon, but it is planned 

 1o promote agricultural instruction in the elementary grade.s. The State indus- 

 trial conniiission is continued, with Prof. Paul II. Hanus, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, as chairman, and it is hoped that the above appropriation will be only a 

 beginning of a new line of work at the college. 



Montana College and Station. — Dean B. Swingle, for several years connected 

 with the P.ureaii of Plant Industry of this Department, has been appointed 

 assistant botanist in the station. A greenhouse 22 by .">0 ft. has been con- 



