EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



Alabama College Station. — The office of director has recently been abolished 

 and its duties have been assigned t© the president of the board of direction, 

 who is also president of the college. Isaac Ross, A. M. Lloyd, B. S., and W. B. 

 Fraser are no longer members of the station staff. 



Alabama Ca:xebrake Station. — The station has recently suffered a severe loss 

 in the death of H. A. Stollenwerck, a member of the governing board and treas- 

 urer of the station. A. Sledge of Whitsett, Alabama, has been appointed a member 

 of the governing board vice S. W. John, resigned. Dr. T. J. Keau has been elected 

 veterinarian. 



Colorado Station. — A revised edition of Bulletin No. 13 on the measurement 

 and division of water was issued July, 1891. Besides numerous changes, principally 

 verbal, some portions of the bulletin have been recast and a few paragraphs have 

 been added. 



Kansas Station. — H. M. Cottrell, M. S., has accepted a position as farm manager 

 for Vice President Morton. His presfiit address is Rhinecliff, N. Y. 



Louisiana Sugar Station. — J. T. Crawley, B. A., has been appointed chemist to 

 the station vice W. Wipprecht, resigned. 



Michigan College and Statiojj. — Eugene Davenport, M. S., professor of agri- 

 culture in the college and agriculturist to the station, has gone to Brazil, where he 

 is to organize an agricultural college in the Province of Sao Paulo. F. J. Mswander, 

 assistant in entomology, has been appointed professor of agriculture in the Univer- 

 sity of Wyoming. E. A. Burnett, B. S., assistant in agriculture, has been made 

 assistant professor of agriculture. A. B. Peebles, B. S., assistant chemist of the 

 station, has accepted the professorship of chemistry and physics in the Connecticut 

 Storrs Agricultural School. H. J. Hall, B. S., assistant horticulturist, has accepted 

 a professorship in the University of Arizona, and F. B. Mumford, B. S., has been 

 appointed assistant agriculturist to the station. 



Nevada College and Station. — J. W. Phillips, D. Sc, has given up his connec- 

 tion with the station and has been transferred to the faculty of the university; N. E. 

 Wilson takes his place as chemist to the station. R. H. McDowell, B. S., formerly of 

 the Colorado Agricultural College and Station, has been appointed horticulturist to 

 the Nevada Station. The station is devoting itself largely to experiments iu the 

 culture of sugar beets; experiments with tobacco, a new crop for this region, are also 

 in progress. 



Ohio Station. — Under the recent act of the legislature authorizing various coun- 

 ties of the State to raise money by taxation for the purpose of securing the location 

 of the station, the commissioners of Wayne County have submitted to the people of 

 that couuty a proposition to raise $85,000 for this purpose. This will be voted upon 

 at a special election, and if it should be ratified the station will be located within 

 that county. H. J. Detmers, D. V. M., is no longer a member of the station staff. 



Virginia Station. — The address of C. Ellis, M. D., formerly veterinarian of the 

 station, is at present Springborough, Ohio. 



Census Bulletin No. 103. — This gives the statistics on horses, mules, and asses 

 on farms, and was prepared by Mortimer Whitehead. 



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