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clnisetts College, has been appointed assistant horticulturist in the college and 

 station. He will have charge of the experimental work on vegetables. 



Louisiana Stations. — II. R. Fulton, plant pathologist, has resigned to accept a 

 similar ])Osition at Pennsylvania State College. 



Maine University and Station. — W. D. Ilurd, acting dean for the past year, 

 has i)een made dean of the College of Agriculture. G. M. Gowell. for many years 

 professor of animal industry in the college, will henceforth devote his entire 

 time to the poultry investigations of the station, and is succeeded in the college 

 by P. A. Campbell, now instructor in animal husbandry. Herman Beckenstrater, 

 a graduate of the Wisconsin University, has been elected assistant professor of 

 horticulture, and J. E. McClintock, for the past two years an assistant in the 

 Bureau of Soils of this Department, has been elected supervisor of extension work. 

 A farm cottage, a piggery, and a building for the storage of farm implements are 

 being constructetl. 



Massachusetts College. — F. S. Cooley has resigned as assistant professor of 

 agriculture to accept the newly created position of supervisor of farmers' insti- 

 tutes in Montana. 



Michigan College and Station. — E. E. Bogue, head of the department of for- 

 estry in the college, died August 19 at the age of 4.3 years. Z. P. Metcalf has 

 been appointed assistant in entomology in the college and assistant entomologist 

 in the station. 



Minnesota Station. — A department of animal nutrition has been established, 

 in charge of T. L. Haecker as professor of dairy husbandly and of animal 

 nutrition. 



Montana College and Station. — V. K. Chestnut, professor of chemistry in the 

 college and chemist in the station, resigned September 1 to accept a position 

 with the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department. He is succeeded in the 

 college by W. M. Cobleigh. the professor of physics, and in the station by 

 Edumnd Burke, the assistant chemist. A course in pharmacy is to be estab- 

 lished. 



New Hampshire Station. — C. S. Spooner, of the Bureau of Entomology of this 

 Department, has been appointed assistant entomologist. 



New Jersey Stations. — James W. Kellogg, assistant chemist, has resigned to 

 accept a position in the Pennsylvania department of agriculture in connection 

 with the inspection of feeding stuffs. 



New Mexico Station. — A novel attempt is being made to combat the codling 

 moth in Donna Ana County by eliminating its food supply. The conditions 

 this sea.son have been unusually favorable for the experiment, as a severe 

 freeze in April killed practically all the fruit in the county. All the orchards 

 were then given a thorough inspection and any fruit found on the trees was 

 destroyed, thereby effecting, it is hoped, the starvation of the entire second 

 brood. To i^revent the reintroduction of the pest, all fruit shipped into the 

 county from other sections is being inspected and destroyed if found wormy. 



New York State Station. — W. G. Johnson, of American Agriculturist, has been 

 appointed by Governor Hughes a member of the board of control to succeed 

 M. II. Olin, deceased. 



North Carolina College. — John Michels, of the South Carolina College and 

 Station, has been appointed associate professor of animal husbandry and dairy- 

 ing, and T. D. Eason, a graduate of that college, has been appointed assistant 

 in botany. 



North Dakota College and Station. — F. J. Pritchard, assistant professor of 

 botany in the college and assistant botanist in the station, has resigned, to take 

 up advanced work in plant breeding at Cornell University, and is succeeded 

 by F. J. Seaver, late a fellowship student at Columbia University. T. D. Beck- 



