694 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



A field meeting of tlie State Poultry Association was held at the college 

 October 12 and 13. Addresses were made by President' Butterfield and Director 

 Brooks, and by President Creelman, of the Ontario College; demonstrations in 

 poultry anatomy by J. B, Paige; lectures by W. D. Hurd and F. C. Sears, on 

 field and fruit crops in connection with poultry keeping; and an illustrated 

 lecture by J. E. Rice, of Cornell University, on The State and the Poultryman. 

 The meeting was noteworthy as the first gathering of poultrymen ever held at 

 the college. 



Dr. H. J. Franklin, of the Minnesota University and Station, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant entomologist, and began work October 1 in charge of the 

 cranberry investigations. P. B. Goldsmith, assistant in chemistry in the 

 station, has resigned to take effect December 1. 



Minnesota College and Station. — New buildings have been completed for the 

 poultry and veterinary divisions, extensive repairs have been made on the boys' 

 dormitory, and plans have been approved for the girls' dormitory, recently 

 authorized. 



A farm has been leased for five years to carry on experiments in quack grass 

 eradication. The Grand Rapids Substation is conducting, in cooperation with 

 the Wisconsin Station, experiments as to methods and cost of stump removal 

 from cut-over lands. 



Ralph Hoagland has been appointed professor of agricultural chemistry, vice 

 Harry Snyder, whose resignation from this position has been previously noted. 



Missouri University and Station. — Among the recent changes in staff are the 

 following : E. A. Trowbridge, promoted from instructor to assistant professor 

 of animal husbandry; Fred S. Putney, appointed assistant to the dean and 

 director, vice John M. Evvard, who has been appointed assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry, vice H. P. Rusk, resigned ; and R. E. Hundertmark and E. W. Rusk, 

 1909 graduates of the University of Missouri and the Ohio State University, 

 respectively, appointed assistants in animal husbandry. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Registration under the new form of organi- 

 zation, whereby the agricultural work is separated from that of engineering, 

 shows an enrollment in the college of agriculture of 125 students in the four- 

 year course, 88 in the summer school, and 340 in the school of agriculture, 

 making the total to date 553 students. 



A temporary building is being added for the use of the department of farm 

 mechanics, which will practically double the floor space available for instruc- 

 tion in farm machinery. The department of animal husbandry has recently 

 purchased, under an appropriation of $2,500, a herd of Shorthorn and Hereford 

 cattle for use in instruction work. 



G. Herbert Coons has been appointed adjunct professor of agricultural botany, 

 vice R. E. Stone, whose resignation has been previously noted. Karl A. Ulmann, 

 a 1909 graduate of the university, has been appointed instructor in dairy hus- 

 bandry. 



New Jersey College Station. — Nahum D. Shore, assistant in plant breeding 

 since 190G, died September 20, at the age of 28 years. Mr. Shore was graduated 

 from the Baron de Hirsch School in 1901 and fi'om Rutgers College in 1906, 

 receiving the master's degree from the latter institution in 1908. He had given 

 special attention to plant breeding and histology, and to plant physiology. 



Henry L. Janeway, a member of the board of control since 1902, died 

 October 18. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — E. D. Sanderson, director of the station 

 for the past two years, has resigned to take effect January 1, 1910. L. A. Pratt, 

 a 1909 graduate of the college, has been appointed instructor in chemistry, and 

 T, G, Bunting, a 1907 graduate of the Ontario College, instructor in horticulture. 



