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New Jersey College and Stations. — Tlie appropriatious made at the last session 

 of the legislature include $100,000 for an agricultural building, $12,000 for a 

 dairy building, $9,000 for the completion of the greenhouses, $3,000 for the com- 

 pletion of the poultry plant, $3,000 for roads and gi-ading, and $2,000 for repairs 

 and improvements in the short course building. Generous appropriations were 

 also made for the maintenance of the poultry and horticultural departments, 

 and the annual appropriation for the short courses was increased from $16,500 

 to $20,000. The mosquito extermination work was granted $25,000. 



A new horse barn has been erected at the college farm, at a cost of about 

 $8,000. 



The fertilizer, feeding stufCs, and insecticide laws were reA'ised at the last 

 session of the legislature, and a new seed law was enacted. John P. Helyar 

 has been appointed seed analyst of the station. 



Other appointments include, in the college. Dr. M. T. Cook as professor of 

 plant pathology and Earle C. Stillwell as instructor in horticulture; and in the 

 station, Arthur L. Zimmerman as fertilizer sampler, L. A. liuzicka as green- 

 house assistant, and A. L. Clark as assistant poultry husbandman. Dr. William 

 D. Hoyt, instructor in botany, and Ray G. Voorhorst, instructor in horticulture, 

 have resigned. 



New Mexico College and Station. — The state legislature has recently appro- 

 priated $30,000 for a new building, which will probably be used for the erection 

 of a fireproof science hall. The regular state appropriation for maintenance 

 has been iuci'eased to $25,000 per annum. 



W. H. Cunningham has been appointetl assistant in animal husbandry, in 

 charge of dairying. S. E. Merrill has resigned as assistant in horticulture. 



Cornell University and Station. — Dr. Cljde Hadley ]Myers has been appointed 

 assistant professor of plant breeding, to have general charge of the extension 

 work in that subject, and Dr. Khett Youmans Winters has been appointed In- 

 structor in plant breeding, to give special attention to the teaching. C. S. 

 Wright and G. J. Burt have resigned as assistants in olericulture and floricul- 

 ture, respectively, to engage in commercial work. 



North Carolina College and Station. — Dr. Burton J. Kay, who has been in- 

 structor in chemistry in the college and assistant chemist in the station, will 

 hereafter devote his entire attention to station work. T. B. Stansel, assistant 

 chemist in the station, and F. W. Sherwood, instructor in chemistry in the col- 

 lege, have resigned to undertake graduate work at Cornell University, and will 

 be succeeded respectively by N. G. Fetzer and F. B. Sherwood, both 1912 gradu- 

 ates of the college. John W. Xowell, Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins 1912), has been 

 appointed to an additional instructorship in chemistry. 



Ohio Station. — J. T. Bogers, Leo E. Melchers, and E. L. Xixou have been 

 appointed assistants in the department of botany. Charles M. Fritz has been 

 appointed assistant in the department of nutrition, vice R. C. Collison, who has 

 accepted a position at the 2sew York State Station. 



Texas College and Station. — The main building, erected in 187G at a cost of 

 $100,000, was destroyed by fire May 27. It contained the administrative ofiices, 

 library, and class rooms for three depai'tments. 



H. L. IMcKnight has been succeeded as superintendent of the station farm by 

 R. E. Dickson, a 1912 graduate of the college. 



Utah College and Station. — At the annual meeting of the board of- trustees. 

 Dr. F. S. Harris was made director of the school of irrigation engineering. 

 The scope of the school was somewhat enlarged, and Ray B. West appointed 

 professor of agricultural engineering in addition to the present stafC The 

 discontinuance of the preparatory courses in the college at the close of the next 

 academic year was authorized. 



