1098 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



of the P.uroiin of Plant Iiidiistiy of this Deiiartiueut, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of botany and plant pathologist; Edward K. Slater, State dairy and food 

 commissioner, assistant professor of dairy husbandry, and J. T. Stewart, of 

 the drainage investigations of this Office, professor of agricultural engineering 

 and physics. James A. Bull, who was prominent in the establishment of the 

 school of agriculture, died April 27, aged 74 years. 



A summer school for teachers is being held for the first time, its object being 

 instruction in the simpler agricultural subjects, with a view to their introduc- 

 tion in rural schools. 



Missouri University and Station. — Frank G. King, assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry, has resigned to accept a position with the State board of agriculture; 

 E. H. P^avor, instructor in horticulture, has resigned to accept the assistant pro- 

 fessorship of horticulture and botany at the Utah College. Joseph R. Keithley, 

 a recent graduate of the university, has been appointed assistant in dairy hus- 

 bandry. 



Contracts have been let for the erection of the new agricultural building and 

 a cold-storage and ice-making plant. The agricultural buildiug is to be located 

 on the horticultural grounds one block from the main campus of the university. 

 It will be 260 feet long and will consist of two stories and a high basement. 

 It is to be constructed of native limestone, thoroughly fireproof throughout, 

 with interior finish of oali, and will cost about $100,000. In addition to the 

 administrative offices of the college of agriculture and of the station, the agri- 

 cultural library and a commodious reading room, the building will provide 

 laboratories and class rooms for the departments of agronomy and animal 

 husbandry. It will also be used as the headquarters of the State board of 

 agriculture, the State highway commissioner, the State veterinarian, the State 

 dairy and food commissioner, and the State soil survey. 



The building will contain an auditorium with a seating capacity of abut 500, 

 and with facilities for live stock, dairy, meat, or other demonstrations for use 

 in connection with the farmers' conventions and similar gatherings at the col- 

 lege, and in the basement there will be a large room especially designed for 

 poultry, corn, and dairy shows. It is expected to complete the building by 

 March 1, 1909. 



The cold-storage and ice-making plant is to be installed in connection with 

 the dairy building, and will contain rooms of sufficient size to permit of experi- 

 ments in the storage of butter and other dairy products. It will also be utilized 

 iu the handling of the dressed meats of the animals studied in connection with 

 the nutrition investigations under the Adams Act. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Extensive improvements are in progress on 

 the station grounds, including the removal of the veterinary clinic laboratory 

 and its replacement by a new building to cost $12,500, and plans are being 

 drawn for a plant industry building, to cost from $80,000 to $100,000. A. F. 

 Magdanz, assistant in animal husbandry, and F. E. Denny, assistant in horti- 

 culture, have resigned to engage in commercial work, and Miss Stella A. Hart- 

 zell, assistant in agricultural chemistry, has resigned to accept a similar position 

 at the Iowa College. E. M. Wilcox, of the Alabama College and Station, has 

 been elected professor of agricultural botany and botanist of the station, and 

 will begin work September 1, in succession to F. D. Heald, whose resignation 

 has been previously noted. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — President W. D. Gibbs received the de- 

 gree of D. Sc. from the University of Maine at its recent commencement. H. F. 

 Hall has resigned as horticulturist and C. S. Spooner as assistant entomologist, 

 and they have been succeeded respectively by B. S. Pickett, of the Illinois Uni- 



