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organization of the college, has resigned. J. Q. Adams, of Logan, and Mrs. 

 A. W. McCune, of Salt Lake, have been appointed on the board. 



Vermont University and Station. — lion. G. G. Benedict, a trustee for 42 years, 

 and also secretary of the board, died April 8, aged 80 years. Joseph Battell, 

 secretary of the American Morgan Breeders' Association, has deeded to the 

 United States, for use in the cooperative work in horse breeding now being car- 

 ried on by this Department and the station, a farm of approximately 300 acres 

 near Middlebury, and about 35 miles south of the station. The farm is 

 equipped with a large modern horse barn, and the cooperative work will be 

 transferred from Burlington and its volume greatly augmented in the near 

 future. C. G. Pringle. the veteran botanical collector, has been appointed to 

 make a collection of solanaceous plants in Mexico for the station, in connection 

 with the study of disease resistance. C. R. Pettis, State forester for New York, 

 and in charge of the Adirondack forest seedling nurseries, has been appointed 

 consulting forester to the station. 



"West Virginia University. — A summer school, begiiuiing June 24 and closing 

 August 3. is announced. Among the 25 courses of study offered are nature 

 study, elementary agriculture, principles and methods of education, and school 

 sup(>rvisi()n. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — II. L. Russell, professor of bacteriology 

 in the university and bacteriologist to the station, has been appointed dean of 

 the college of agriculture and director of the station, to succeed W. A. Henry at 

 the beginning of the college year. Among other appointments and promotions 

 announced are, as associate professor, D. H. Otis, in animal nutrition ; as 

 assistant professors, R. H. Denniston in botany, J. G. Moore in horticulture, and 

 C. A. Ocock in agricultural engineering ; as instructors, G. M. Reed in botany, 

 James Milward in horticulture, and Conrad Hoffman in agricultural bacteri- 

 ology ; and as assistants. II. D. M. Jollivette in botany and Matthew Michels in 

 butter and cheese scoring. In the announcement for the university summer 

 school it is stated that Dean Henry will conduct a class in agriculture for 

 teachers in the public schools. 



The station is conducting a vigorous campaign against tuberculosis in the 

 300,000 dairy herds in the State. Existing laws provide for the inspection of 

 cattle before entering the State, and a bill has been introduced into the legis- 

 lature providing for the testing of all cattle before sale. Instruction in the 

 use of the tuberculin test has been given to about 1,200 former agricultural 

 students who compose the membership of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Association. While under the laws regulating veterinary practice these 

 students are not permitted to collect fees, they are nevertheless rendering much 

 assistance. 



Plan for County Experiment Stations. — A bill has been introduced into the 

 Missouri legislature which autht)rizes any county court, on the petition of 50 

 freeholders or the resolution of any agricultural or horticultural society in 

 the county, to establish and maintain an experiment station. This may be 

 located at the county farm, or other land may be leased. Supervision is to be 

 vested jointly in the county court and the State experiment station, and the 

 work proposed is mainly that of demonstration. 



A Mexican Botanical Station.— In a recent issue of Plant World an account is 

 given of the botanical station and rubber laboratory recently established on 

 La Zacualpa plantation. Chiapas, Mexico, under the direction of Dr. P. Olsson- 

 Seffer. The larger part of the land is to be devoted to rubber, including experi- 

 mental plats of Castilloa and a collection of all known rubber-producing 

 plants, and the I'emainder will be used for the more unusual representatives 



