NOTES. 



California University and Station. — Among some of the most imperative needs 

 of the university, as set forth by President Wheeler in a recent number of Sunset, 

 are the estabhshment of a school of forestry and a university farm, "with full equip- 

 ment to illustrate all the usual agricultural processes." E. W. Major, a graduate of 

 the University of Minnesota and for several years an assistant in the dairy department 

 of the station, has been appointed instructor in dairy husbandry in the university, 

 and has entered upon his duties. His first task was the organization of the ten 

 weeks' course in dairying, upon which 26 students have entered. W. A. Setchell, 

 professor of botany in the university and botanist to the station, has been granted 

 his sabbatical leave of absence for one year from July 1, 1903. Through a misun- 

 derstanding, it was announced in the Octolier number of the Record that J. Burtt 

 Davy had resigned his position in the university and station to accept a position in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. It is now learned that Mr. Davy 

 will retain his position of instructor in the university and assistant botanist to the 

 station, but has been granted leave of absence for one year, during which he will 

 carry on studies in economic botany in this Department, with the title of assistant 

 curator. 



Colorado College and Station. — S. Arthur Johnson, a graduate of Rutgers Col- 

 lege, has been appointed assistant entomologist, vice E. D. Ball, who, as previously 

 noted, has gone to Utah. 



Connecticut Stores Station. — The headquarters of the station have recently been 

 moved from Middletown to Storrs, and hereafter the business of the station will be 

 conducted at the latter place. Its work will be broadened somewhat and developed 

 along the lines of poultry investigations, horticulture, dairying, and soil tillage. 

 E. R. Bennett, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College and deputy inspector 

 of orchards in Michigan, has been appointed assistant horticulturist of the station. 

 He will devote his entire time to experiment station work, and will investigate espe- 

 cially matters concerning small fruits and truck gardening. A bacteriological labora- 

 tory is being fitted up at Storrs, where investigations will be conducted in dairy and 

 soil bacteriology under the supervision of Dr. H. W. Conn. The staff of the station 

 as at present organized is as follows: L. A. Clinton, acting director and agriculturist; 

 A. G. Gulley, horticulturist; W. O. Atwater, supervisor, nutrition investigations; 

 H.W. Conn, supervisor, dairy bacteriology; C. L. Beach, dairy husbandman; W. A. 

 Stocking, jr., assistant bacteriologist; F. H. Stoneburn, poultryman; E. R. Bennett, 

 assistant horticulturist; H. L. Garrigus, assistant, field experiments; W. M. Esten, 

 laboratory assistant; B F. Koons, consulting entomologist; C. A. Meserve, consult- 

 ing chemist; E. H. Lehnert, consulting veterinarian; E. A. White, consulting 

 botanist. 



lowA Station. — C. PI Gray, assistant chemist of the station, has resigned to accept 

 the position of chemist of the Continental Creamery Company, Topeka, Kans. 



Minnesota Station. — A. G. Ruggles has been appointed assistant entomologist of 

 the station. 



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