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Michigan College. — J. Fivd Bakor. professor of forestry in Colorado ('ullei,'t', 

 has been appointed professor of forestry to suceeed E. E. P.osue. tleeeased. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A. K. Kohler, instructor in horticult\ire 

 at the Michiiran College, has been appointed assistant horticulturist and has 

 entered upon his duties. 



Missouri University. — Science notes the ai)pointnient of Dr. P. F. Trowbridge 

 as assistant professor of atrricultural clieniistry, and of X. D. Ilendricksou, C. R. 

 -Monlton. aud L. F. Shackel as assistants in the same department 



Nebraska Station. — Stella A. Ilartzell h.as Ijeen appointed assistant in chem- 

 istry. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — >Scic)icc notes the appointment of W. M. 

 Barrows as assistant in zoology. 



New York State Station. — Recent changes in the station staff include the 

 resignations of II. E. Ilodgkiss, assistant entomologist, to accept a position wnth 

 the State entomologist of Illinois, and of P. W. Flint, assistant chemist, to take 

 up postgraduate work at the University of Illinois. A. R. Rose, assistant 

 chemist, has been given a year's leave of absence for postgraduate work at 

 Yale University. 



North Dakota Station. — The bacteriological laboratory of the division of biol- 

 ogj- has been largely rearranged and more thoroughly equipped for the study of 

 the indefinite flora of soil. The plant house of the botanical division has been 

 fitted up with a complete temperature regulation system, by which the temper- 

 ature of any room may be maintained quite constantly. The botanist is keeping 

 in touch with farmers of the State by means of press Inilletius giving i*ecom- 

 mendations arising from the work of the station as it jn-ogresses. 



Experiments in the eradication of weeds in grain fields have been undertaken 

 on a plan more extensive than heretofore. Field demonstrations have been 

 conducted at H different jioints in the State on fields of from 50 to 100 acres 

 each, special attention being given to a study of the machinery most suitable for 

 applying solution^. Several new chemicals have been tested, but so far as iron 

 sulphate and copper sulphate ai'e concerned, no material deviation has been 

 noted from the principles enunciated from the original investigations of the 

 station. 



Ohio University. — Ten-week winter courses, to begin January t>, 1908, are an- 

 nounced in the lireeding and feeding of live stock, stock judging, soil fertility, 

 farm crops, horticulture, farm mechanics, farm management, dairying, veter- 

 inary medicine, and poultry husbandry. 



Rhode Island Station. — P.. L. Ilartwell, formerly associate chemist, has been 

 made chemist. II. S. Hammond, assistant chemist, has resigned to accept a 

 position at the Macdouald Agricultural College. 



Vermont University and Station. — Morrill Hall, the new agricultural build- 

 ing now in course ()f construction, will be dedicated on December 11 at the time 

 of the meeting in Burlington of the State grange. 



Virginia Station. — Recent appointments include Lyman Carrier as agronomist, 

 and F. I). Harmon as herdsman. 



Washington College and Station. — II. B. P'.arry, a graduate of the college and 

 last year a postgraduate student at the T'nlA-ei"sity of Illinois, has been appoinupd 

 soil physicist in the station and will devote his entire time to studies of soil- 

 moisture problems. R. S. Northrop, whose appointment as superintendent of the 

 Puyallu)) substation was noted in a iirevlous issue, has decided to remain with 

 the T'tah College and Station. 



The station has adojited the plan of issuing a series of iiopular bulletins, giv- 

 ing concise sunnnarized statements of the results of experiments for wide dis- 

 triliution among the farmers of the State. For this i)urpose the mailing list is 



