NOTES. 



Connecticut College and Station. — Tlie total stnte appropriations for the 

 eusuing l>ieuniuin aggregate .1^112,101. Of this $50,000 is for current expenses, 

 .«<4,000 for tlie station, $18,000 for four new cottages, $12,500 for a dining hall, 

 $10,000 for the iruprovenient of the road from the college to the railroad station, 

 $8,500 for the purchase of an additional farm, $5,000 for the equipment of the 

 horticultural hall, and the remainder for installing a windmill, watertauk, etc. 



The most largelj' attended poultry meeting ever held in the State took place 

 ;;t the college July 27 and 28, under the auspices of the State Poultry Association, 

 six States being represented. 



Delaware College and Station. — Charles L. Penny, formerly chemist of the 

 station, lias resigned as professor of agricultural chemistry at the Pennsylvania 

 College to return to this institution as professor of chemistry, succeeding 

 Dr. Theodore li. Wolf, deceased. Under •a rearrangement of duties, C. O. 

 Houghton, entomologist, has been transferred entirely to college work and 

 Dr. M. T. Cook, professor of botany, and Firman Thompson, professor of agri- 

 cultural chemistry, have been assigned exclusively to station work. H. D. 

 Eggers, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed 

 assistant chemist in the station, and Jacob Taubenhaus, a graduate of Cornell 

 University, assistant plant pathologist. 



Idaho University and Station. — John F. Nicholson, formerl.y botanist and ento- 

 mologist at the Oklahoma College and Station, has been appointed bacteriologist. 

 and has entered upon his duties. 



Kansas College and Station. — Wilmar E. Davis, of the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of botany in the college and assistant 

 botanist in the station. Other appointments in the station include Dean H. Rose. 

 Paul W. Graff, and Miss Anna Monroe as assistants in botany. O. A. Stevens 

 has resigned as assistant in botany to accept a position as assistant in charge 

 of the newly established seed-inspection laboratory at the North Dakota Station. 



Maine University and Station. — Recent additions to the university staff include 

 G. E. Simmons as professor of agricultural extension, M. E. Sherwin as assistant 

 {irofessor of agronomy, W. R. Palmer as instructor in horticulture, J. R. Dice 

 as instructor in animal husbandry, and Ijaura Comstock as assistant professor 

 of domestic science. J. E. McClintock, professor of agricultural extension work, 

 has resigned to accept a position with the United States Bureau of Education, 

 as specialist in land-grant college statistics. 



The station farm for investigations in orcharding and tield ci-ops, the purchase 

 of which was authorized by the last legislature, has been selected. The farm 

 is located at Monmouth, is equipped witli modern l)uildings, and ccmtains 225 

 acre.s, of which 100 acres are well adapted to tillage and (50 acres are already 

 set to orchards. 



Maryland Station. — C. W. Nash, assistant agronomist, resigned September 1 

 to accept a similar position at the Kansas Station. K. II. Kutt'ner. assistant 



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