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with various pumps under varyiner cdnditionis ami with a variety of fuel is in 

 progress. 



New York State Station. — V. A. Clark, formerly connected with tlie Office of 

 Exjjeriment Stations and more recently engaged in commercial work in the West, has 

 been appointed first assistant horticulturist of the station, in place of N. 0. Booth, 

 who has resigned to become horticulturist in the Washington College and Station. 

 H. O. Woodworth has been appointed assistant entomologist of the station to suc- 

 ceed P. J. Parrott, who w^ent to the Ohio Station some months since. 



NoKTH Carolina College and Station. — W. R. Morehouse, a graduate of the 

 Lowell (3Iass. ) Textile School, has been elected instructor in chemistry and dyeing 

 in the college; J. S. Kendall, a graduate of the New Hampshire College, has been 

 appointed instructor in dairying in the college and assistant in dairying in the station; 

 and T. J. McLelland, a graduate of the Ohio State University, instructor in soil 

 physics and agronomy in the college. F. L. Stevens, professor of biology in the 

 college, has been made biologist to the station. H. P. Eichardson has resigned his 

 position as poultryman to the station. 



Ohio College and Station. — J. Fremont Hickman, agriculturist to the station, 

 died October 22 of typhoid fever. He had been in jjoor health for several months 

 from overwork, and during the early part of summer was obliged to give up his 

 work for a time, but returned somewhat improved. Professor Hickman was a native 

 of Ohio, Mhere he was born July 3, 1856. He graduated from Pennsylvania State 

 College in 1880, and from 1881 to 1883 was superintendent of one of the experi- 

 mental farms which the college operated at that time. For several years he followed 

 farming and sheep raising at his home in P^ast Liverpool, Ohio, and in 1888 became 

 connected with the Ohio Station, then located at Columbus. He took a prominent 

 part in laying out the farm and extensive plat system when the station moved to 

 Wooster, and had since been in immediate charge of this work, together with the 

 keei^ing of the records. He was a conscientious, systematic, and thorough worker in 

 the lines which he undertook, and gave unusually close personal attention to all 

 important details. His death will be a severe loss to the station. Alfred Vivian, 

 assistant chemist of the Wisconsin University and Station, has been elected associate 

 professor of agricultural chemistry in the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State 

 University. A. F. Burgess, chief inspector of nurseries, and Ida L. Feiel, assistant 

 botanist, are no longer connected with the station. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — L. A. Meerhouse, a graduate of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed assistant in soils and crops in the college 

 and station. The college announces a short course in agriculture, horticulture, and 

 mechanic arts, designated as "a business course for farmers, " which will extend from 

 January 6 to February 27, 1903. Special efforts are being made to advertise the 

 school in order to reach the progressive farmers and farmers' sons of the Territorv. 

 The course offered is quite comprehensive in character, and the total expense of 

 attendance is estimated at less than §30. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Harry Hayward, assistant professor of 

 dairy husbandry and dairy expert of the station, has resigned to become associate 

 professor of animal industry and dairying in the New Hampshire Agricultural Col- 

 lege. The instruction in practical dairying has been temporarily assigned to T. I. 

 Mairs. M. S. McDowell, assistant chemist of the station, has resigned to accept a 

 position with the Newport Fertilizer Company. N. W. Buckhout, assistant chemist, 

 has also severed his connection with the station. Dr. H. P. Armsby has been 

 relieved from duty as dean of the School of Agriculture in order to enable him to 

 give more exclusive attention to the work of research and investigation, especially 

 that branch which the station is now carrying on in cooperation with this Depart- 

 ment through the operations of the resjji ration calorimeter. Wm. A. Buckhout has 

 been provisionally appointed acting dean. 



