894 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



Industry of this Department a large number of varieties of rice have been 

 planted at Crowley and fertilizer trials are being carried on. Considerable 

 local interest is being manifested in this work, and it is probable that the next 

 legislature will make provision either for extending it or for establishing a 

 permanent rice experiment station. J. B. Garrett has been appointed acting 

 assistant director at Calhoun during the leave of absence of J. G. Lee. 



Maine Station. — Dr. Raymond Pearl, instructor in zoology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has accepted an appointment as biologist, to begin with the next 

 academic year. The appointment is made under the provisions of the Adams 

 Act, and the work will consist entirely of research in plant and animal breeding. 

 Special attention will be devoted to an investigation of the principles of inherit- 

 ance in poultry, the practical phases of which have already been extensively 

 developed at the station. 



Maryland Station. — »S7(/(/c«/.v' Herald notes the resignation of W. B. Thurston 

 as assistant dairyman to enter commercial woiiv. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — JNIerritt I. Wheeler, trustee for many 

 years, died April 7, and Hon. Frank Gerrett, of Greenfield, has been appointed 

 on the board. H. J. Franklin and J. N. Summers have been appointed assist- 

 ants in entomology. The former is to carry on the study of cranberry insects, 

 with headquarters at Wareham. At a recent conference with representatives 

 of the Massachusetts Cranberry Growers' Association much interest was 

 manifested in the experiments under way, and the association volunteered 

 to provide, at its own expense, a bog for use in the work. W. E. Dickinson 

 has been appointed assistant chemist in connection with the fertilizer inspec- 

 tion, dating from July 1. C. I'. Ilalligan, assistant horticulturist, has resigned 

 to accept a similar position at the Michigan Agricultural College. 



Missouri University and Station. — J. ]\I. Stedman, entomologist, has been 

 granted leave of absence for 17 months, a part of which will be spent in I'e- 

 seareh at the Naples Zoological Station. ('. II. Ilechler, assistant in animal 

 husbandry, has resigned to enter c(mnuercial V\'ork. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — W. H. Pew, a graduate of the Iowa 

 College, has been elected assistant professor of animal husbandry in the col- 

 lege and animal husbandman in the station, and F. Kasmussen, assistant in 

 dairying in the Iowa College and Station, has been elected associate professor in 

 dairying in the college and dairyman in the station. A department of botany 

 has been organized in the station, in charge of Charles Brooks as botanist. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — Breeders'' Gazette states that F. C. Minkler, 

 a graduate of the Iowa College, has been elected professor of animal husbandry. 

 Charles S. Cathcart, several years ago a member of the station staff, and since 

 that time in fertilizer work, has 1)een appointed chemist. 



New Mexico College and Station. — R. R. parkin and Iliram Hadley have suc- 

 ceeded H. B. Holt and G. A. Richardson on the board of regents. P. D. South- 

 worth, a graduate of the ^linnesota College of Agriculture, has been appointed 

 assistant in animal husbandry in the college and station. Courses in civil and 

 electrical engineering have been added to the college ciirriculum, and a depart- 

 ment of irrigation engineering has been organized under the direction of B. P. 

 Fleming, of this Office, as previously announced. W. O. Bryant will have charge 

 of the irrigation work until July 1. Farmers' institutes have been held during 

 the winter and spring in practically all of the agricultural districts of the 

 Territoi'y, and farmers' institute societies have been organized in most of the 

 localities. 



Cornell University. — According to a recent note in Americnn Agririiltiirht, 

 an investigation in farm management is being conducted by M. C. Burritt 



