100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Dr. Eobert Stewart lias been appointed to the newly established position of 

 assistant director of the station; W. E. Carroll has been appointed assistant 

 director of the school of agriculture. H. J. Webb, Howard Sweitzer, and C. L. 

 Merrill, all 1912 graduates of the college, have been appointed assistants re- 

 spectively in entomology, horticulture, and agronomy. Stephen Boswell, super- 

 intendent of the Kephi Farm, and F. Froerer, assistant in animal husbandry 

 in charge of the cooperative cow-testing work, have resigned to engage iu 

 commercial work, and have been succeeded respectively by A. D. Ellison and 

 John Wilson, both 1912 graduates of the college. 



Virginia Truck Station. — L. L. Corbett has resigned as assistant in truck 

 crops to accept a position with the Farm Management Investigations of this 

 Department. 



Washington College and Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of regents 

 plans for a $150,000 building, to be used jointly by the station and the depart- 

 ments of agriculture, horticulture, and extension work of the college, were 

 authorized. 



A department of extension work has been definitely organized in the college, 

 iu place of the former work in farmers' institutes and agricultural extension. 

 The new department has been placed temporarily under the supervision of 

 the head of the department of agriculture of the college, with R. C. Ashby, 

 superintendent of farmers' institutes, in general charge of the details of the 

 work. The completion of a staff of extension workers will proceed as rapidly 

 as circumstances will permit. 



Dr. H. B. Humphrey, plant pathologist of the station, has been made vice 

 director, the appointment becoming effective July 1. N. Rex Hunt has resigned 

 as assistant botanist of the station, and C. D. George, a 1912 graduate of the 

 college, has been appointed assistant plant pathologist. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — A four-day university exposition was held 

 in May at which the agricultural work was prominently represented. A course 

 in beekeeping is to be added to the curriculum with the new college year. 



Three county representatives of the station have now been appointed, namely, 

 F. D. Otis in Barron County, E. L. Luther in Oneida County, and G. R. Ingalls 

 in Eau Claire County. A state appropriation of $1,000 and a county appropria- 

 tion of $500 are available in each case. The work to be undertaken will include 

 instruction in the county training school for teachers, and in farmers' courses, 

 lectures, and demonstration work with farmers, and cooperation with in- 

 dividuals. 



The station is to undertake the manufacture and distribution of hog-cholera 

 serum. A new office building, foreman's cottage, fireproof seed vault, and bai-ns 

 are under construction at the Ashland substation. 



Dr. B. H. Hibbard, professor of economics and political science at the Iowa 

 College, has been appointed associate professor of agi'icultural economics. 



Prospective Agricultural Meetings. — The Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations will hold its twenty-sixth annual conven- 

 tion at Atlanta, Ga., November 13 to 15 ; the American Association of Farmers* 

 Institute Workers will also meet at Atlanta, November 11 to 13. 



The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists will be held at Washington, D. C, September 16 to 18. 



