NOTES. 495 



AdiUiis fiiiul is (if iiilerost to stations whose luiids aro depositt'd with tlie State 

 treasurer. The State auditor of Nehraska declined to pay out the Adams fund 

 from the State treasury on tlii' requisition of the board of regents, on the 

 ground that the legislature had not specifically appropriated the fund. The 

 supreme court in a decision rendered Xoreniher 10, 1906, held that " the fund 

 never belonged to the State." luit "was p.nid to tlie State treasurer as tlu^ 

 agent of the board of regents and custodian of the funds of the university," 

 and that in view of the nature of the fund, and a previous act of the legisla- 

 ture relating to the funds of the station derived from the Hatch Act, or supple- 

 mental acts, " it seems clear that in general terms the expenditure of said fund 

 by the board of regents is clearly authorized, and no other or more specific 

 ajipropriation is necessary." (Decision in yorth)cest Reporter, Dec. IS. 1900. 

 p. 770.) 



Recent ap]iointments to the station staff include A. F. Magdanz, assistant in 

 animal husbandry; L. B. Sturdevant, assistant in animal pathology; and 

 F. E. Denny, assistant in horticulture. 



Nevada Station. — The resignation of N. E. Wilson, consulting chemist, is an- 

 nounced. Dr. W. B. Mack, of Cornell University, has accepted the position of 

 veterinarian and bacteriologist, and assumed his duties .January 1. 



New Hampsliire College and Station. — The resignation of Ivan C. Weld, in 

 (barge of d.-iiry mannf.-ictures. is reported. 



Cornell University and Station. — Coriiell Coiiiitrynian states that S. M. Her- 

 rick, assistant in agricultural chemistry, has become assistant chemist at the 

 Virginia Station. 



Ohio TJmversity. — A recent communication from the president of the Percheron 

 Horse Society of France announces that the society has voted to offer to the 

 department of animal husbandry of the university an object of art representing 

 a Percheron horse. This trophy will probably be a bronze figure of a Percheron, 

 ;uid is to be competed for annually by the students taking instruction in horse 

 judging at the university, the one showing the greatest proficiency having his 

 name inscribed on the base of the trophy. This action of the society is the 

 outgrowth of a visit to this country in 1904 of ilr. Charles Aveline, its president, 

 who liecanie interested in the educational work of the university upon the horse. 



Oklahoma Station. — Work has been begun on a small horse barn to provide 

 for new work under the Adams Act in connection with a study of some of the 

 jiroblems of breeding animals. This work will include a study of the use of 

 the artificial impregnator, and of the effect of various kinds of feed on the 

 breeding powers of animals. 



Porto Rico Station. — II. C. Ilenricksen has resigned as horticulturist to enter 

 the service of the German Kali Syndicate, and is succeeded by Martin J. lorns, 

 a recent postgraduate student at Cornell University. 



Rhode Island Station. — II. L. Barnes has resigned as assistant horticulturist. 

 F. K. I'eniber, for some years in the employ of the Bureau of Soils, has accepted 

 a position at this station in connection with the soil investigations. 



Utah College and Station. — W. M. Jardine, agronomist in the college and 

 station, has resigned to accept a position as assistant cerealist in the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. Willard C. Snow, assistant chemist, resigned November 1 to 

 engage in private work. 



A new publication entitled Rock)/ Mountain Farming has been started by the 

 faculty. It is aimed to make it a general farm paper for tlie Rocky Mountain 

 intermountain region, to serve also as the organ for college extension work. 

 The contributors are principally members of the station stall: and the faculty, 

 and students of the institution. 



