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Alabama Ti'skegee Station. — During the past summer the station set out 300 

 mulberry trees with a view to making experiments in silk culture in the future. 



Califorxia University and Station. — J. Burtt Davy, assistant in botany, has 

 resigned to accept the position of assistant curator in the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 of this Department. Gen. W. H. L. Barnes,' a member of the governing board of 

 the university and station, died in San Francisco July 21, 1902. 



Delaware College and Station. — E. Dwight Sanderson, entomologist, has re?igned 

 to accept the position of State entomologist in Texas. 



Florida College and Station. — C. M. Conner, of the South Carolina College and 

 Station, has been elected professor of agriculture in the college and agriculturist of 

 the station, and has entered upon his new duties. 



Georgia College and Station. — H. N. Starnes, formerly horticulturist of the 

 station, and for the last three years professor of agriculture in the college, has returned 

 to the station to till the vacancy caused by the resignation of S. H. Fulton, who has 

 come to this Department. 



Illinois College and Station.^ — E. B. Forbes has l:)een ajipointed assistant in 

 animal husbandry. 



Purdue University and Station. — H. A. Huston, chemist of the station, has 

 been appointed director to succeed C. S. Plumb. A. N. Hume, assistant agricultur- 

 ist, has resigned to accept a position in the Winona Agricultural and Technical 

 Institute, Winona Lake, Indiana. 



Iowa College and St.\tion. — P. G. Holden, B. S. A., formerly of the Illinois Col- 

 lege and Station, has recently been elected professor of agronomy and vice dean of 

 the division of agriculture. J. J. Edgerton, instructor in agricultural physics, has 

 resigned to accept a position on the Prairie Farmer, published in Chicago. W. H. 

 Stevenson has been elected assistant in soils. Mr. Stevenson is a graduate of Illinois 

 College and has been doing advanced work in the University of Illinois. W. H. 

 Olin, M. S. A., has been made assistant in agronomy. 



Kansas College and Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of regents the 

 work in agriculture was divided into three chairs — agriculture, animal husbandry, 

 and dairying. A. M. Ten Eyck, of the North Dakota College and Station, was elected 

 professor of agriculture; D. H. Otis, of the chair of dairy husl)andry, was made pro- 

 fessor of animal husbandry; and E. H. Webster, assistant in dairying, was made 

 professor of dairying. C. L. Barnes, of the Washington Agricultural College, recently 

 appointed assistant in the veterinary department, was made assistant professor. 

 Theo. H. Scheffer was appointed assistant in zoology, W. F. Coover assistant in 

 chemistry, and Roscoe H. Shaw assistant chemist of the station. 



Kentucky College and Station. — L. O. Beatty, assistant chemist of the station, 

 has resigned to accept a fellowship m Columbia University; and T. L. Richmond, 

 assistant entomologist and botanist, has resigned to accept a position with the depart- 

 ment of agriculture of the Philippines. The station has begun the erection of a large 

 dairy barn. It will be in the Swiss style of architecture and consist of a main portion 

 and two wings. One wing will contain 30 stalls for milch cows and the other will 



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