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Porto Rico Station. — The station has removed from Rio Piedras to Mayaguez, 

 -where it has taken possession of the land recently purchased for its use through an 

 appropriation of $15,000 made l)y the last legislative assembly of the island. The 

 farm contains 230 acres, and cost $19,000, the $4,000 additional to the appropriation 

 being given by the municipality of Mayaguez. The old sugarhouse on the jalace 

 has been repaired and painted, and will serve the present needs of the station for 

 oflBce, laboratory, and working quarters. The 11-room frame house has also been 

 put in condition and serves as living quarters. In addition to these buildings there 

 is a brickyard with several kilns and drying sheds; also a number of small huts in 

 which peons live. The place presents a considerable variation in character of soil, 

 topography, and exposure. It is well located with reference to the city of Mayaguez, 

 and although in a neglected condition it presents very good possibilities and is well 

 suited to the needs of the station. Paul A. English has been ajipointed assistant 

 agriculturist, in place of James Mackinlay. J. W. Van Leenhoff, a coffee planter 

 from Java, has been appointed coffee expert. 



South Carolina College and Station. — P. H. Mell, formerly professor of l)otany 

 in the Alabama College and director of the station, was elected president of the 

 Clemson College and director of the South Carolina Station early in September. 

 H. Benton, formerly director of the Alaljama Canebrake Station, has been installed 

 as assistant professor of agriculture and assistant agriculturist to succeed C. M. Conner, 

 who has gone to Florida. 



Texas Collec4e and Station. — At a meeting of the board of directors held early 

 in September the following vacancies in the college and station were filled: "W. D. 

 Gibbs, formerly professor of agriculture in the ]Sew Hampshire College and director 

 and agriculturist of the New Hampshire Station, was api^ointed dean of agriculture in 

 the Texas College and director of the station. He entered u])on his new duties Sep- 

 tember 8. F. S. John-ston, formerl)- associate professor of agriculture in the School 

 of Agriculture of the Purdue University, was appointed professor of agriculture in 

 the college. E. C. Green, chief inspector of orchards in Illinois, was appointed 

 assistant horticulturist of the station and instructor in horticulture in the college. 

 O. C. Hargis, a graduate of the Texas University, was apisointed assistant chemist. 

 The new chemical-veterinary building, costing $31,000, is nearing completion. This 

 will provide adequate accommo<lations for these two departments, which heretofore 

 have been cramped and unsuitalile. 



Utah Station. — William N. Hutt, B. S. A., of the Department of Agriculture of 

 Ontario, has been elected horticulturist of the station. Professor Hutt has been 

 employed as lecturer at farmers' institutes in Ontario for the last four years, and in 

 1901 was appointed special lecturer in nature study to the schools and horticultural 

 societies of Ontario. Before taking up the i^resent position he was secretary of the 

 horticultural societies at the Department of Agriculture of Ontario. 



Washington College and Station. — Geo. Severance, instructor in agriculture in 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, has been elected instructor in agricultui-e in this 

 college and assistant agriculturist of the station. 



West Virginia University and Station. — S. W. Fletcher, recently of the Wash- 

 ington College and Station, has been elected horticulturist to fill the vacancy made 

 by the retirement of K. C. Davis; and W. M. IMorgan, a graduate of Cornell with the 

 degree of B. Sc. A., has been made assistant horticulturist of the station. 



Convention of American Veterinary Medical Association. — The thirty-ninth 

 annual meeting of this association was held in the assembly room of the West Hotel 

 in Minneapolis, September 2-5, 1902. The attendance was unusually large, and the 

 discussion of the papers which were read and the resolutions which were adopted 

 was enthusiastic. The meeting was counted one of the most successful in the historj' 

 of the a.ssociation. The president, J. F. Winchester, delivered an address on the 

 history of the association, in the course of which sjjecial emphasis was laid on the 

 necessity of longer and more thorough veterinary courses in colleges. The com- 



