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liusbaudry, and of D. M. Wilson, assistant in dairy husbandry, as dairy commis- 

 sioner. December 14 was observed in the State as alfalfa day. over 250 meet- 

 ings being held for the discussion of this topic. The annual farmers' institute 

 at the college was held December 26 to January 4. with courses in judging corn, 

 live stock and poultry, dairy testing, cooking, and sewing. The various State 

 breeders' associations held meetings in connection with the institute. A novel 

 feature was the boys' corn judging contest, participated in by about 400 boys 

 who were the winners of local contests and were receiving the trip to the 

 college as a prize. 



Louisiana Stations. — B. W. Edgerton, of Cornell University, has been appointed 

 plant pathologist to begin work February 1. 11. P. Agee has been given leave of 

 absence and will spend the sugar season in Porto Rico. 



Maine Station. — G. M. Gowell has resigned from the station work, his resigna- 

 tion becoming effective January 1. The work in poultry breeding is to be con- 

 tinued by the station biologists. 



Massachusetts Station. — E. Thorndike Ladd, first assistant chemist in the ferti- 

 lizer division, has resigned to engage in commercial work, and has been suc- 

 ceeded by Philip V. Goldsmith, a graduate of the Michigan College. James C. 

 Reed, a graduate of the University of A'ermont, has been appointed second 

 assistant chemist. 



Michigan College and Station. — Plans have been completed for the new agri- 

 cultural building to ])e erected on the former site of the l)arns. at a cost of 

 approximatelj' $12r),000. The insectai'y has been completed and will be used 

 .for investigations in entomology, soil chemistry, and botany. An investigation 

 of the so-called Grand Traverse disease of cattle, which was widely prevalent 

 in the northwestern part of the Lower Peninsula, has resulted in the discovery 

 that the continued ansemia usually resulting in starvation jyas due to a chronic 

 impaction of the third stomach. The remedies worked out by the station have 

 proved efficient in every case where applied before the animal was miable to 

 stand, and the investigation has been concluded for the present. 



Missouri University. — Dr. Albert Ross Hill, formerly dean of the College for 

 Teachers of the University, and at present dean of the College of Arts and 

 Sciences at Cornell Universit.v. has accepted the presidency to succeed R, H. 

 Jesse, who is to retire under the Carnegie i-etirement fund. 



Nebraska University and Station,— I'ress reports state that Chancellor An- 

 drews has resigned from the university. C. B. Anderson and George Coupland 

 have been elected to the board of regents, and E. M. Little has been appointed 

 assistant in dairying. A heating plant costing $?.0,000 has been added to the 

 eciuipment. and a home economics building, costing !?70.000, and a judging 

 laboratoiy for the school of agriculture, costing .^M),000, are approaching com- 

 pletion. The judging laboratory contains two class rooms for stock judging on 

 the first floor, a class room and laboratory for agronomy on the second floor, 

 and a seed room on the third floor. The attendance in the regular course of 

 the school of agriculture for the current year is approximatel.v 800. A course 

 in home economics is now being offered with 25 students in attendance. 



North Carolina College and Station. — According to Breeders' Gazette, C. M. 

 Conner, agronomist, has accepted a position as assistant commissioner of 

 agriculture for the Philippine Islands. 



Ohio University. — V. M. Shoesmith, agronomist of the Maryland Station, has 

 been appointed assistant jirofessor of agronom.v. 



Oklahoma College and Station.— Under the new State constitution the State 

 Board of Agriculture is made the board of regents of the college and station. 

 The personnel of the board, as recentl.v appointed, is as follows : J. P. Con- 

 ner s (president), Canadian; J. P. Roetzel (vice-president), Watonga ; R. F. 



