1136 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Ohio University axd Station. — Thomas F. Hunt has resigned his position as 

 dean and professor of agriculture in the university, to become professor of agronomy 

 at Cornell University. He entered upon his new position July 1. H. C. Price, a 

 graduate of the university and recently horticulturist at the Iowa College and Sta- 

 tion, has veen elected dean and jirofessor of rural economics, and INI. F. INTiller has 

 been made assistant professor of agronomy. John F. Hicks, assistant botanist at the 

 Ohio Station, was shot by an unknown person just as he was preparing to leave 

 Wooster the night of May 81. Mr. Hicks had resigned his position to engage in 

 business in Cleveland. 



Oklaho-aia College and Station. — J. F. Nicholson, of the Xew York State Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed assistant in l)acteriology in the college and station. Pro- 

 vision has been made for the appointment of an assistant in agric-ulture. C. O 

 Pearcy, clerk and stenographer, has resigned. 



Pennsylvania Ciillege. — The total appropriation for the college made l\v the 

 State legislature at its recent session was $250,805.55. Of tliis amount §100,000 is for 

 the purpose of assisting in the erection, equipment, and furnishing of a building for 

 the department of agriculture of the college, while $150,000 additional is virtually 

 pledged by the attachment of a proviso requiring the trustees of the college to file 

 with the auditor-general plans, specifications, and estimates satisfactory to him show- 

 ing that the entire cost of the building and equijimeiit will not exceed $250,000. At 

 no stage in the progress of the bill through the legislature was a single vote recorded 

 against it. The amount was voluntarily increased liy the apjiropriation committee 

 from $223,000 to $250,000. The college announces the resumi)tion of the short course 

 in agriculture, which has been suspended for the past four years. The course next 

 winter will begin January 6 and continue until ]March 30. The short creamery course 

 will begin at the same time and close IMarcli 2. 



South Carolina College and Station. — The board of trustees has voted to erect 

 an agricultural l)uilding to cost $50,000, providing full accommodation for the agri- 

 cultural department and its various divisions. J. S. Newman has been appointed 

 director of farmers' institutes. It was planned to hold thirty-one local institutes 

 during the month of July, and a State institute to be held at the college August 10 

 to 14. 



I't.vii CoLLEtiE AND STATION. — ( i. L. Swcndseii, i)rofessor of civil engineering and 

 hydraulic engineer to the station, has resigned to accept an appointment with the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. W. M. IVIcLanghlin, a graduate of the college in 1895, has 

 been appointed his successor in the station, and will give his whole time to the sta- 

 tion work. W. D. Beers, assistant irrigation engineer, has severed his connection 

 with the college and station. In accordance with the recent provision of the State 

 legislature 6 farms have been located by the station in different parts of the State for 

 experiments in dry farming. These include 40 acres each, and were donated in eai'h 

 case by the county, which also jiaid the expense of clearing and fencing them. No 

 buildings or permanent equipments will be provided, the team work being hired. A 

 competent laborer will be placed in charge of each farm, and the station will exercise 

 a close supervision of the work. Trials will be made mainly with grains and forage 

 crops grown without irrigation. 



Vermont Station. — F. ^I. HoUister, B. S., of the class of 1W3, has been appointed 

 assistant chemist. 



Washington Station. — The State Station at Puyalhip has l)een closed and the 

 land rented to local parties who will look after the plants and fruits now growing. 

 The legislature passed an appropriation of $12,000 for the station, but the bill failed 

 to receive the governor's signature. 



West Virginia College and Station. — John U. Sheldon, of the botanical depart- 



