796 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOKD. 



A plan for movable schools, suggested by Prof. John llainiltoii of this Office, 

 aroused special interest. 



Pennsylvania College. — Gen. James A. Beaver, ex-goveruor of the State, judge 

 of the superior court, and president ot the college board of trustees, has been 

 elected president of the college, and Dr. Judson P. Welsh, principal of the 

 P.loomsburg State Normal School-, for many years, vice-president and business 

 manager. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — G. E. Adams, associate agronomist in the 

 station, has been elected professor of agriculture in the college to succeed 

 F. W. Card, whose resignation takes effect June oO. L. F. Whipple succeeds 

 W. F. Purrington. whose resignation has been previously noted, as assistant 

 chemist in the station. 



South Carolina Station. — C. C. McDonnell has resigned as assistant chemist 

 to accept a position in the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department. 



South Dakota Station. — The legislature has passed a bill directing the selection 

 of common school, endowment, or indemnitj" lands in ?> sections of the State 

 for experiment stations. A bill was also passed granting 2.5.000 acres of land 

 to these stations for their suitport. 



Tennessee University and Station. — A State appropriation of $100,000 has 

 been made for the next bicnnium. Of this amount. ."f25,000 is to be used for 

 salaries. .$40,000 for an agricultural building, .$22,000 for repairs and equip- 

 ment. $3,000 for the transportation of the holders of scholarships, of which 

 three have been established for each member of the legislatui'e, and $10,001) 

 for cooperative experiments in agriculture and agricultural extension work 

 in middle Tennessee. A separate bill also appropriates .$40,000 for the estab- 

 lishment of a permanent substation in West Tennessee. 



Virginia College and Station. — A. M. Soule. dean of the college and director 

 of the station, has tendered his resignation, to take effect September 1, at 

 which time he will go to Georgia to take charge of the agricultural work at 

 the university. 



Utah College and Station. — J. A. Widtsoe has been elected to succeed W. J. 

 Kerr as president of the college, and E. D. Ball director of the station in succes- 

 sion to P. A. Yoder. 



Washington College and Station. — An appropriation aggregating $.575,7.54 has 

 been made by the State legislature for the ensuing biennium. Of this $130,000 

 is for a library and auditorium, $125,000 for a general recitation building, 

 .$25,000 for a domestic economy building, $12,000 for an engineering laboratory 

 for hydraulics and irrigation, $11,000 for a wing to the veterinary hospital, 

 .*);i2,000 for additional farm lands, $7,000 for barns, $10,000 for farmers' insti- 

 tutes, $4,000 for investigations with cereals and in dry-land farming. $2,500 for 

 irrigation investigations, $20,000 for the Puyalhip Substation, and the balance 

 for maintenance. A two-year forestry course has just been arranged, and a 

 chair of farm management is to be established. 



West Virginia Station. — K. B. Copeland, who, as previously announced, was 

 elected horticulturist, has decided not to accept the position, but will continue 

 in his present position with the Philippine department of agriculture. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The property formerly belonging to the 

 State penitentiary, which has been occupied by the university and station for 

 some time, has been formally granted by the legislature to the university, to- 

 gether with an appropriation of $5,000 for its equiiimcnt for experimental work. 

 An appropriation of $2,500 for farmers' institutes was also made. 



Office of Experiment Stations. — C. B. Smith, for several years in chai'ge of the 

 departments of horticulture and forestry of Ea-periiiiciit tStatioii Record, has 



