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March 1. Instructor E. C. Green, of the horticultural department <>f tiie college, has 

 been placed in charge of the station work temporarily. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The last legislature passed a i)ure-food bill, 

 making the chemist of the station State chemist. The laboratories of the university 

 were designated State laboratories to carry on this work, and an appropriation of 

 $1,000 per year was made to provide an assistant who will do the analytical work. 

 It is expected that the station will be somewhat benefited in that the chemist will be 

 aided in certain investigations of value to the station. The legislature also api>ropri- 

 ated $15,000 to build an armory and gymnasium. 



U. S. Department of AGRiciLTrRE. — F. H. Hitchcock, chief of the Division of 

 Foreign 3Iarkets, has resigned to become chief clerk in the new Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor. 



E. Y.. Ewell, assistant chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, has left the Department 

 to have charge of the Atlanta office of the German Kali Works. 



Filibert Eoth, of the Bureau of Forestry, has been appointed professor of forestry 

 in the University of Michigan. 



Frank Bond, for two years past connected with the irrigation investigations of this 

 Ofiice, has resigned to accept the position of Chief of the Drafting Division of the 

 (leneral Land Office. 



Harry Hayward, professor of animal industry and dairying in the New Hampshire 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed p.ssistant chief of the Dairy Division, and 

 p]. H. Webster, professor of dairying in the Kansas Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed inspector and expert. 



James L. Farmer, of Tennessee, has been appointed chief special agent for the 

 college and station exhibit at St. Louis, and is temporarily located in the Office of 

 Experiment Stations. 



A. L. Quaintance, entomologist of the Maryland Agricultural College and F^xperi- 

 ment Station, has resigned to accept a position in the Division of Entomology. He 

 will have charge of the investigations on the cotton-boll weevil this season. 



Assignment of Soil Survey Parties, 1903. — The localities in which the soil 

 survey will be carried on the present season by the Bureau of Soils is shown l)y the 

 following table, the places named being the headquarters of the parties: 



Soil surrey/, 1903. 



The headquarters for the tobacco work will be at Nacogdoches, Woodville, and 

 Lufkin, Tex.; Marion, Perry County, Ala. ; Hartsville, Darlington County, S. C. ; 

 Germantown, Ohio, and Hartford, Conn. 



