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and opportunities of the college, and a program for strengthening its worli 

 and developing its field of usefulness. H. A. Parsons has been appointed dairy 

 tester, vice J. G. Cook, resigned. F. G. Hellj-ar, inspector in the division of 

 foods and feeding, has resigned to accept a position as assistant in the agri- 

 cultural deiiartnient at Mount Ilernion School. 



Michigan College. — A dei)artnient of farm mechanics has been established and 

 placed under the directioji of L. J. Smith, a graduate of the engineering course 

 at this college in inoc. 



Missouri University and Station. — Among the recent appointments are the fol- 

 lowing : Miss Edna I). Day, Ph. I)., of the University of Chicago, as assistant 

 professor of household economics ; L. F. Childers, of the University of Missouri, 

 as assistant in agronomy ; E. A. Trowbridge, as assistant in animal husbandry, 

 and W. H. Chandler, of the University of Missouri, as assistant in horticulture. 

 H. S. Wayman has been promoted from assistant in dairy husbandry to instructor 

 in the same subject. B. M. Duggar, botanist, and W. L. Howard, assistant 

 horticulturist, have returned from a year's leave of absence in Eui'ope. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Roscoe H. Shaw, assistant professor of 

 agricultural chemistry in the university and associate chemist in the station, 

 has resigned to become assistant professor of dairy husbandry in the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri. He is also connected with the Dairy Division of this Depart- 

 ment as dairy expert. 



Cornell University. — L. B. Judson. of the Idaho College and Station, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of horticulture. The new buildings of the col- 

 lege of agriculture are approaching completion, and it is expected will b^ ready 

 for occupancy this fall. A model schoolhouse is being erected as a part of the 

 extension work. In addition to the usual recitation room, it will contain a 

 large laboratory for nature study. An effort will be made to secure its dupli- 

 cation at many places in the State. 



North Carolina College and Station. — J. G. Hall, who has been taking ad- 

 vanced work at Harvard University, has recently been added to the station 

 staff as assistant pathologist. W. A. Syme, Ph. D., a graduate of the college 

 and of Johns Hopkins I'niversity. has been appointed assistant chemist in the 

 station and instructor in the college, and J. C. Temi>le has been appointed assist- 

 ant in bacteriological work in the college and station. He will give his atten- 

 tion especially to work in connection with soils. Robert S. Curtis, a graduate 

 of the Iowa Agricultural College, has become assistant in animal husbandry in 

 the college and station. 



Porto Rico Station. — D. W. May, director of the station, has returned for a 

 short visit, and will attend the convention of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations at Baton Rouge. Pineapple 

 plants sent up from the station last spring and planted outdoors at the Arling- 

 ton Farm of this Department produced fruit whi<-h was of good flavor and 

 ■well matured liy the first of October. 



South Dakota Station. — The station plans to erect a building to be used by the 

 veterinarian in investigating diseases of farm animals, at a cost of about $2,000. 



West Virginia University and Station. — T. C. Johnson has been placed in 

 charge of the botanical work of the university and is no longer connected with 

 the station. E. B. Copeland, who has been connected with the government lab- 

 oratories at Manila, has been elected horticulturist of the station and will enter 

 on his work about the middle of November. He is a graduate of Leland Stan- 

 ford University, and previous to going to Manila occupied the chair of botany 

 in this university. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Andrew McLeod has been appointed in- 

 structor in soils in the luiiversity and assistant in soils in the station. Conrad 

 Hoffmann has become assistant in agriculture and bai-teriulogv and Christ 



