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Gowell had been connected with the university for about 25 years, resigning as 

 professor of animal industry at the end of tlie last academic year and from his 

 station work in poultry breeding on January 1, 1008. He was Go years of age. 



Maryland College and Station. — At the last session of the legislature an act 

 was |)assed making the board of trustees of the college ex-otticio the State board 

 of agriculture, and the director of the station the secretary of that board. Rob- 

 ert B. Mayo, M. D. (.Johns Hopkins), has been appointed to the station staff 

 for investigations on i)oultry diseases, and I>. B. Broughton, a recent graduate 

 of the college, has been api)ointed assistant chemist, vice .J. .J. T. Graham, re- 

 .vigned. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — The legislature has granted a deficiency 

 approi)riation of .$2o,(J(lU, increased the approi)riati()n for maintenance by .$13,000 

 for the ensuing year, and by $20,000 annually for succeeding years, and appro- 

 priated .$4,000 for repairing and refitting the station building, ,$34,000 for the 

 i-rection and equipment of a horticultural greenhouse and attached building 

 for instruction, .$5,000 for additional equipment in the college, and $17,000 for 

 repairs and miscellaneous purposes, making an aggregate of approximately 

 $93,000. 



Michigan College. — A summer school, to open June 29 and continue four 

 weeks, is announced for the preparation of teachers who wish to teach agricul- 

 ture. W. H. French, the recently appointed professor of agricultural education, 

 will have charge of the school. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A summer school of forestry at Itasca 

 State Park is announced to open July 1 and continue until August 13. The 

 course is open to men and women, and includes instruction in elementary silvi- 

 culture, forest mensuration, botany, entomology, geology, and surveying. 



H. M. Bush has been appointed assistant in agriculture, and has entered upon 

 Ills duties. 



Mississippi College and Station. — R. P. Hibbard, of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try of this Department, lias accepted an appointment as bacteriologist, his work 

 for the present to be chiefly in dairy bacteriology. 



Missouri University and Station. — The resignations are noted of Norman D, 

 Hendrickson, assistant in agricultural chemistry, to accept a position witli the 

 Bureau of Chemistry of this Department at its Chicago Food and Drug Inspec- 

 tion Laboratory; of Franli G. King, assistant in animal husbandry, to become 

 assistant to the secretary of the State board of agriculture; and of H. S. Way- 

 man, instructor in daii-ying and assistant dairyman, to engage in commei'cial 

 work, the two last-named resignations becoming effective June 1. 



C. Stuart Gager, Ph. D., director of the research laboratories of the New Yorlc 

 Botanical Gardens, has been appointed professor of botany in the university and 

 botanist to the station. Doctor Gager will enter upon his duties September 1. 



Montana College and Station. — A special dairy train in charge of the dairy- 

 man toured the State during May. The train was made up of two box cars fitted 

 up witli a milking machine, a pasteurizer, and other dairy equipment, power being 

 supplied by a gasoline engine installed in one car. Four of the best dairy cows 

 at the station were also taken along and used in demonstrations in connection 

 with the lectures. 



Nebraska University and Station. — F. D. Heald, professor of agricultural 

 botany in the university and botanist in the station, has I'esigued to accept the 

 professorship of botany in the University of Texas. 



New Jersey College and Stations.— The State legislature has passed a law 

 establishing a State live-stock commission, which is given authority to i)urchase 

 and maintain for service stallions of draft and coach ty[)es. and (o make rules 

 and regulations us to the purchase, distribution, and use of stallions and other 



