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Imdiana Station. — H. A. Huston, director of the station, has resigned to accept a 

 position with the German Kali Works, in charge of their new branch office to be 

 opened at St. Louis, INIo. This branch will be run as a part of the propaganda and 

 will be purely educational. The territory covered by the St. Louis office will extend 

 from eastern Ohio to Colorado and from Arkansas to Minnesota. Professor Huston 

 will take up his new duties in April next. 



Iowa College -and Station. — At a recent meeting of the trustees it was decided 

 to devote the one-fifth mill tax levy granted by the last legislature for building pur- 

 poses to the erection of the following buildings in the near future: Afire-proof addi- 

 tion to Agricultural Hall, 60 by 100 ft., for the use of the departments of agronomy 

 and farm mechanics, greenhouses for agronomy and horticulture, and a two-story 

 judging pavilion for agronomy and animal husbandry 60 ft. in diameter, to cost 

 $50,000; a central building for administration and general" science purposes, to cost. 

 $225,000; a new agricultural building, to cost $200,000; and a central heating plant, 

 to cost $60,000. The erection of the buildings will be taken up in the order named. 

 The addition to Agricultural Hall and the other buildings for the agricultural 

 department will be taken up first, and will be completed by the opening of the next 

 college year. The new main building, which takes the place of the one destroyed by 

 fire, the new agricultural building, and the central heating plant will be erected as 

 soon as the income from the tax levy permits. The new experiment station l;)arrL 

 has been completed. 



Kentucky Station. — 0. M. Shedd, a graduate of the Kentucky Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has been made assistant chemist, to succeed L. 0. Beatty; and E. P. Taylor, 

 of the Colorado Agricultural College, has been appointed assistant entomologist and 

 botanist, to succeed T. L. Richmond. The board of trustees at the recent semi- 

 annual meeting authorized the erection of a new building, to be devoted exclusively 

 to the station, and costing $20,000. This will be erected on a parcel of ground 

 recently purchased for $4,000, and lying between the college campus and the sta- 

 tion farm. The building will contain the offices of the different divisions of the- 

 station and their laboratories. 



Minnesota Station. — Beyer Aune, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, has: 

 been appointed foreman of the station farm. 



Nebraska University and Station. — A. T. Wiancko, instructor in agriculture in 

 the university and assistant agriculturist of the station, resigned January 1 to go to 

 Purdue University, where he will be connected with the instruction in agriculture,, 

 and will have charge of the field experiments of the Indiana Station. 



Cornell University and Station. — The announcement is made that G. C. Cald- 

 well has retired from active service, in accordance with the recent regulations of the 

 trustees permitting professors to retire with pension. Professor Caldwell has been 

 at the head of the chemical department of the university since 1868, and chemist of 

 the station since its establishment. John W. Gilmore, B. S. A., has entered upon 

 hia duties as agriculturist of the station. Mr. Gilmore has recently returned from 

 the Philippine Islands, where he was connected with agricultural work, and pre- 

 vious to that spent a year in Hawaii and two years in China engaged in teaching 

 agriculture. 



Ohio Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of control of the station it was; 

 decided, in view of the great increase in the work and responsibilities of the agri- 

 cultural department, to divide that department into the two administrative depart- 

 ments of agriculture and animal husbandry, and C. G. Williams, of Gustavus, Ohio, 

 W'as appointed chief of the agricultural department and superintendent of the farm. 

 Mr. Williams is a successful and progressive young farmer who is widely known over 

 the State as an agricultural writer and a farmers' institute speaker. The appoint- 

 ment of a chief of the department of animal husbandry will be made at a later date. 



