1176 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Cornell University and Station. — 1>. M. Duggar, of the University of Missouri, 

 has been elected to the professoi'ship of plant physiology in its relations with 

 agriculture. It is expected that he will assume his duties next. February. 

 J. B. Norton, formerly of this Department, has become assistant in the depart- 

 ment of plant biology. The new appropriation for the college of agriculture car- 

 ries .$150,000 for maintenance, .$50,000 for equipment, and $25,000 for building 

 barns, a total of .$225,000 for the year. 



North Dakota College. — A summer school of traction engineering was held at. 

 the college July 2 to 20 under Prof. P. S. Rose, of the engineering department. 

 The forenoon of each day was devoted to lectures on traction engineering and 

 the economics of thrashing. In the afternoon there were lectures on gas engi- 

 neering and classes in arithmetic. The practical work consisted in I'unning 

 both steam and gasoline traction engines, setting valves, putting in boiler tubes, 

 babbitting boxes, lacing belts, etc., all under the direct supervision of experts in 

 those lines of work. Each student was given time enough at practice work to 

 become thoroughly proficient in handling and adjusting traction engines. Con- 

 siderable attention was also given to the handling of grain separators. 



Ohio Station. — II. S. Woods has been appointed assistant in animal nutrition. 

 C. II. Kyle, assistant agronomist, has resigned to accept a position in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, and F. A. Welton, assistant chemist, has been 

 transferred to bis position. Gail T. Abbott has been appointed second assistant 

 in agronomy. .1. S. Ilouser, assistant entomologist, has resigned to become 

 entomologist of the Cuban Experiment Station. 



Oregon College and Station. — At the last meeting of the board, professorships 

 were established in agronomy, poultry husbandry, animal husbandry, and vet- 

 erinary science. Dr. James Withycombe will have charge of the work in the 

 last two lines. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Thomas F. Hunt, dean and director, and 

 Alva Agee, profess(U- of agricultural extension, assumed their duties July 1. 

 Dr. H. P. Armsby remains with the college as director of the institute of ani- 

 mal nutrition. The department of agriculture has been divided into depart- 

 ments of agronomy and animal husbandi\y. J. W. Gilmore, assistant professor 

 of agronomy at Cornell University, has been elected professor of agronomy ; 

 and J. H. Barron assistant in experimental agronomy. Bailey E. Brown, of the 

 Bureau of Soils, has, as previously noted, been assigned to the experiment 

 station under the title of assistant professor of agronomy, and with the assist- 

 ance cf J. J. Skinner, also of the Bureau of Soils, is engaged in the study of 

 the fertilizer plats which have been under experiment during the past twenty- 

 five years. Provision has also been made for an instructor in agronomy, with 

 special reference to soils. T. I. Mairs lias been placed in charge of the depart- 

 ment of animal husbandry and provision made for an assistant in animal 

 husbandry and an instructor in poultry husbandry. C. L. Gooodling. a graduate 

 of the college, has been elected assistant in animal lmsl)andry, and an assistant 

 professor of dairy husbandry, with special reference to the manufacture of 

 cheese, will be appointed. J. P. Stewart, as previously noted, has been elected 

 assistant professor of experimental horticulture and has begun investigations 

 in that subject. The position of assistant professor of botany with special refer- 

 ence to plant pathology, including both college and station work, has been estab- 

 lished. The chair cf agricultural chemistry has been divided. Dr. William 

 Frear will continue as vice-director of the station and professor of experimental 

 agricultural chemistry, and M. S. McDowell has been promoted to be assistant 

 professor of experimental chemistry. 



