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with, of the Soil Bacteriology and Water Purification Investigations of this 

 Department, has been elected assistant professor of bacteriology and plant 

 pathology, and will be associated with the botanist in special soil investigations 

 at the station. 



Ohio University and Station. — The Percheron Horse Society of France has 

 recently presented the university with a bronze figure of a percheron to be 

 used in the annual competition of the department of animal husbandry. The 

 figure will at all times be on exhibition to the visiting public, but each year the 

 student having the highest rank in horse judging is to be regarded as its tem- 

 porary winner and will have his name inscribed upon it. The figure has a 

 total height of 25 inches and is said to be an especially fine work of art. 



C. W. Gay has resigned as associate professor of animal husbandry to accept 

 the newly established professorship of animal husbandry in the Veterinary 

 College of the University of Pennsylvania, and has been succeeded by F. R. 

 Marshall, of the Texas College and Station, who will have the title of professor 

 of animal husbandry. R. H. Williams, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, and who received the degree of M. S. at the Illinois University last 

 June, has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry. J. A. Foord, asso- 

 ciate professor of crop production and improvement, has resigned, to accept a 

 similar position at the Massachusetts College. 



C. W. Montgomery, of Newark, has been appointed a member of the board of 

 control of the station, vice Alva Agee. 



Oklahoma College. — A teachers' correspondence course in agriculture has been 

 established, covering two j-ears of nine months each, the work taken up being 

 essentially that given in the School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, 

 except as to the practical phases. It is hoped that this course will enable 

 teachers to introduce agriculture into their schools in the near future, as well 

 as to fit them for examination in this subject when this is required, as provided 

 for in the pending constitution. 



Oregon College and Station. — C. C. Vincent has been appointed assistant in 

 horticulture in the station. F. E. Edwards, assistant professor of chemistry 

 in the college and assistant chemist in the station, has resigned to accept a 

 position with the California Polytechnic School. C. C. Clark has been appointed 

 horticulturist of the Eastern Oregon Substation at Union. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — G. C. Watson, agriculturist, has been 

 granted a furlough of one year, and is acting as manager of a series of farms 

 near Syracuse. C. L. Penny, of the Delaware Station, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of agricultural chemistry in the college. 



Porto Rico Station. — P. L. Gile, of the Missouri Station, has been appointed 

 assistant chemist and has entered upon his duties. 



Rhode Island Station. — W. F. Schoppe, a graduate of the University of Maine, 

 has been apiwinted general assistant, and will take charge of the details of 

 the experiments in poultry feeding. The station is carrying on a number of 

 cooperative field experiments in different parts of the State. These are con- 

 ducted primarily for the purpose of securing material for use in scientific 

 researches now in progress, but they serve incidentally as an aid to the study 

 of the immediate soil requirements in the respective localities. 



Clemson College and Station. — H. W. Barre, a graduate of the college, and a 

 recent recipient of the degree of M. S. from the University of Nebraska, has 

 been elected botanist. C. E. Chambliss, entomologist, has resigned. D. O. 

 Nourse, for several years connected with the Virginia College and Station, has 

 been elected professor of agriculture. 



Tennessee Station. — J. E. Hite, J. E. Converse, and W. N. Rudd have been 

 appointed assistants in cooperative experiments at Gallatin, Cookeville, and 

 McMinnville, respectively. 



