NOTl-S 



Georgia Station. — Martin V. Calvin, nf KiciuuoiKl. (ia.. lias Ikmmi clcclod to 

 sviecood II. J. Ivcddiiis; as (lirector. 



Kansas College and Station. — Accdi'diiii,' i<> the I ixhififrUiUKl. .]. V.. rayiu- has 

 been selected to take charije of the station at (Jarden City, to be condncted in 

 cooperation with this Department. The collefje has a total enrollment of l,:^.r»(;. 

 •A gain of ai)ont 200. The State legislature will he asked to appropiMate .$(i70,r)0o 

 for the next liienniinn. Ol' this amount .$2n.">,000 is for current e.\i)enses. 



Louisiana Stations. — Fritz Zerhan, IMi. I). (Munich), has succeeded to th(> 

 plac(» of Dr. C. A. r.rowne. jr.. as ehennst at the sugar station. R. C. Ilolt/.elaw, 

 formerly assistant ehennst at the State station, lias lieen recently ai>pointc(l 

 assistant to the State chemist of Georgia. 



Maine University and Station. — Percy Camjiliell li.is lieen apiioiiited assistant 

 in animal Imsliandry. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — ^I. A. lUake. assistant in horticulture, 

 has resigned to become horticulturist at the New Jerse.v State Station. The 

 vacancy ])reviously noted, caused by the resignation of F. (J. Ilelyar. Uas been 

 tilled by the apiiointment of W. K. Hepburn. 



Michigan College. — The campus has been extended by moving all of the older 

 barns back 200 or .300 yards to an elevated i)i>sition on the river bank. It is 

 projjosed eventually to erect a new agricultural building on the site thus 

 \-acated. A new engineering building is in jirocess of erection. It is t(» con 

 sist of a stone and brick basement, above which will be four stories of vitrified 

 brick, trimmed with white sandstone. This is to cont.ain class rooms .-iiid 

 laboratories for the deiuirtnients of matbematics, ]ih.\sics. di-awing. ;ind civil 

 ;.'nd mechanical engineering. The ohl iiiech.-niical building will be devoted to 

 sho])work. 



Plans are being jierfected for a jubilee week next spring to celebrate the fif- 

 tieth !innivers;iry of the opening of the first agricultural college in the T'nited 

 States. t,t is now jiroj^sed to hold the jubilee May 28-.31. A programme is 

 b(ing arranged so that the delegates to the Association of American Agricnl- 

 lur.-il Colleges and Experiment Stations, which it is hoi)ed will meet in Lansing 

 at tli;it lime, may attend all of the more iiiii)ortant sessions of the jubilee. 

 President Uoosevelt will speak May '.'A. and the college is planning to i-ntertain 

 from 10,000 to l.l.ttOO people on that day. 



Minnesota Station. — A. D. \Yillioit has been apjiointed assistant in soil in- 

 vestigations, and Ceorge Craig assistant in animal breeding experimeiUs. 



Mississippi College and Station. — I). C. Mooring has been oppointed assistant 

 in horticulture. K. U. Lloyd Is to have charge of the farmers' institute and 

 extension work. .T. W. Fox has been put in charge of the Delta substation and 

 C. T. Ames of the Holly Spring station. 



Nebraska University and Station. — M.nrtin Nelson has been api»ointed in- 

 structor in tield crops and soils in the university and assistant in crops in tlie 

 .station. 



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