98 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



1897. W. J. Kennedy has been made vice-director of the station, and Alfred Atkin- 

 son assistant in agronomy. A. T. Erwin, assistant in horticulture, has resigned. The 

 part of the main building remaining after the fire of December 8, 1900, was destroyed 

 by lire August 13, 1902. The office furniture and plant collections of the botanical 

 department of the college and station, contained in the building, were saved. The 

 loss is estimated at $10,000. 



Maine Station. — Herman H. Hanson, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State College 

 in 1902, has been appointed assistant chemist, vice Ora W. Knight, resigned. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — F. A. Waugh, horticulturist of the Ver- 

 mont college and station, has been elected horticulturist of the college and station to 

 succeed S. T. Maynard. Thorne M. Carpenter, a graduate of the college, who was 

 recently assistant chemist at the Pennsylvania Station, has lieen appointed assistant 

 in the department of foods and feeding. 



MiciiioAN College and Station. — E. E. Bogue has been appointed professor of 

 forestry. R. C. Kedzie, for nearly forty years at the head of the chemical depart- 

 ment, has retired from active service in the college as professor emeritus, but remains 

 in charge of the chemical work of the station. Robert S. Shaw of the Montana 

 College and Station has been elected to the chair of agriculture in the college, vice 

 H. W. Mumford, who is now connected with the Illinois College and Station. J. J. 

 Ferguson has resigned as instructor in animal husbandry to accept a position with 

 the Live Stock Commission at Winnipeg. 



Minnesota University and Station. — Andrew Boss has been promoted to asso- 

 ciate professor of agriculture in charge of live stock. Coates C. Bull, assistant in 

 agriculture in the University of Illinois, has been appointed assistant in agriculture. 

 He will have charge of rural engineering and will assist in field crops. John Thomp- 

 son, professor of agriculture and chemistry in the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege for the Colored Race, at (jreensboro, N. C, has also been appointed assistant in 

 agriculture. He will assist in field crops and farm management. J. F. Wojta, a recent 

 graduate of the University of Wi-sconsin, has l)een ajipointed assistant in agriculture, 

 with his main work in rural school agriculture. Prof. W. M. Hays has been placed 

 in charge of the new movement to introduce agriculture into the rural schools. A 

 bulletin nearing completion will contain about two hundred exercises and experi- 

 ments. This bulletin is to be bound and furnished to each rural school. It outlines 

 exercises which the teacher is to require of pupils, at such times as may be con- 

 venient and practicable. Each exercise includes, besides the subject and time when 

 it can best l)e carried out, four divisions. Under the first heading is a statement of 

 the ol)ject sought; under the second, the materials to be use<l; under the third, the 

 plan of work; and under the fourth are notes giving important facts to the teacher. 

 The subjects include agriculture, horticulture, cooking, sewing, domestic animals, 

 housekeeping, laundering, agricultural chemistry, dairying, etc. The State depart- 

 ment of public instruction has employed W. Robertson, J. F.Wojta, and J. A. Wilson 

 to introduce the use of these exercises to the teachers in the teachers' summer schools 

 throughout the State. Reading lessons, charts, and other helps to teaching agricul- 

 ture in the rural schools are contemplated. 



Missouri College. — R. M. Bird, recently assistant chemist of the Mississippi 

 college, is acting professor of agricultural chemistry. 



Ohio Station. — P. J. Parrott, until recently assistant entomologist of the New York 

 State Station, has been appointed entomologist of the Ohio Station. 



Rhode Island College.— J. H. Washburn of the college resigned August 15, 

 1902. Pending the appointment of a new president, H. J. Wlieeler, director of the 

 experiment station, is acting president. Science notes that Presiilent E. R. Nichols 

 of the Kansas College has been elected to succeed Dr. Washburn. 



