500 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Alice Ciitberino Evans, a graduate of Cornell T/niversity. for work in bacter- 

 iology, and to Charles 1'. Haslam. a graduate of the Kansas College, in chemistry. 



Under an appropriation from the last legislature poultry courses are to be 

 provided, and a poultry department is being organized with James G. Halpin, 

 assistant professor of poultry husbandry at the Michigan College, at its head. 

 E. P. Sandsten has resigned as horticulturist to engage in commercial work in 

 Montana. Emil Truog and W. E. Morris, 1909 graduates of the college of agri- 

 culture, have been appointed respectively assistant in soils and assistant in the 

 State fertilizer and feed inspection, the latter position being in succession to 

 George S. Hine, resigned to become principal of the Marinette County (Wis.) 

 School of Agriculture. John L. Tormey has been appointed assistant animal 

 husbandman in the station. 



Experiments with various methods of removing stumps from cut-over lands 

 are under way. in cooperation with the Minnesota Station and the Farm 

 :\Ianagement Investigations of this Department. 



Wyoming Station. — A horse barn to cost $5,000 is being erected, on the univer- 

 sity stock farm and will contain a large room to be used for stock judging. 

 The wing whicli is being added to the woman's building is well under way, and 

 when finished will complete the domestic science equipment. 



L. Charles Raiford, Ph. D. (University of Chicago), for two years associate 

 professor of chemistry in the University of Chicago, has been appointed re- 

 search chemist, and will have charge of the Adams fund work in chemistry. 



Death of Miss Maria Parloa. — Miss Maria Parloa, widely known as a teacher 

 and writer on home economics, cookery, and related topics, died August 21 at 

 her home in Bethel, Conn. She was born in September, 1843, in Massachusetts, 

 and after a number of years of practical training began her professional work 

 as a lecturer on cookery and home economics in Boston in 1877. A little later 

 she opened a school of cookery. 



For some time Miss Parloa was special instructor at Lasell Seminary, gave 

 courses in sick-room cookery to Harvard medical students, lectured before 

 classes at the Boston Cooking School, and gave many lecture courses in various 

 places in New England and elsewhere. Following a long residence in Europe, 

 where she made special study of English and French methods of cookery, she 

 opened a model school of cookery in New York, which she conducted for a 

 number of years until she again went abroad for a long stay. 



Miss Parloa was the author of a number of well-known books on cookery 

 and home economics topics and contributed to various magazines. She was the 

 author of two of the Farmers' Bulletins of this Department on nutrition, 

 Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies, and Preparation of Vegetables for the 

 Table. Miss Parloa was a pioneer and leader in the organized effort for ad- 

 vancing the home economics movement in the United States in both its educa- 

 tional and practical sides. Her observations on the effects of methods of cook- 

 ery upon the wholesomeness of food were extended, and in this and in other 

 ways she contributed much of value to the science of food and nutrition. 



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