NOTES. 



Arkansas Station. — R. L. Bennett, director of the station since 1S90, has resigned 

 to go into private business. He left the station June 30. 



Colorado College axd Station. — "W. L. Carlisle, professor of animal husbandry 

 in the AVisconsin University and Station, has been elected agriculturist of the college 

 and station and will take up his new duties in the fall. H. H. Grithn, field agent 

 for the Arkansas Valley, located at Rocky Ford, has resigned to enter the employ of 

 a sugar-beet company and has been succeeded by P. K. Blinn. The latter has 

 charge of the cooperative experiments which the station is carrying on with the 

 farmers in the valley, and is studying its agricultural develoi^ment. The station at 

 Rocky Ford has been rented to a progressive farmer, wlio is a graduate of the college, 

 with the understanding that lie will conduct experiments along certain lines without 

 expense to the station. 



Florida University. — The last legislature gave the university about |60,000 for 

 maintenance for the Inennial ]>criod. The appropriation for buildings was declared 

 imconstitutional in the form in which it pas.sed. The veterinarian of the university 

 and station was made ex officio State veterinarian. H. G. Dorsey, assistant professor 

 of physics, has resigned to accept a position in a Rochester, N. Y., institution. The 

 board at its last meeting abolished coeducation at the university. 



Hawaii Station. — Press reports state that the agricultural appropriations made 

 by the Territorial legislature, which amounted as passed to $41,600, includes $7,500 

 in aid of the Federal experiment station. 



Idaho Station. — J. S. Burd, assistant in the Bureau of Chemistry of this Depaiit- 

 iTient, has been appointed chemist to the Idaho Station, vice H. B. Slade who sev- 

 ered his connection with the station several months ago. Mr. Burd entered upon 

 his duties July 1. 



low.v College and Station. — F. R. Marshall, assistant in animal husbandry, has 

 resigned his position to take charge of the live-stock work at the Brookmont Farm, 

 Odebolt, Iowa, where the station has carried on extensive cooperative feeding experi- 

 ments. He has been succeeded by "W. J. Rutherford of Guelph, Canada. 



Kenticky Station. — Hon. F. A. Hopkins, Prestonburg, has been appointed a 

 member of the board of trustees to succeed J. B. JNIarcum, deceased, and Dr. T. Car- 

 penter, Scottsville, has been appointed to succeed B. W. Bradburn, resigned. D. W. 

 May has been granted leave of absence during August and September and will spend 

 the time in England and Scotland studying live-stock and breeding interests in those 

 countries. George Roberts, assistant chemist, has resigned to accept a position in the 

 chemical department of the California Station, in charge of the fertilizer control 

 provided for by the recent act of the legislature of that State. 



Maine University and Station. — At a recent meeting of the trustees of the 

 university it was voted to establish a secondary school in agriculture with a two- 

 years' course, entirely distinct from the college courses. The school will open the 

 coming fall. It will consist of a fall, spring, and summer term the first year, and a 

 fall and spring term in the second year, making a total of five terms aggregating 

 sixty-two weeks. S. C. Dinsmore, a graduate of the university in tne class of 1903, 

 has been elected chemist, vice E. R. Mansfield, resigned. 

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