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erected. The staff of the new division includes the following: R. C. L. Perkins, 

 superintendent; A. Koebele, consulting entomologist; G. W. Kirkaldy, F. W. Terry, 

 and Otto Swe/.v, assistant entomologists. 



Illinois University. — By request, the university is preparing an exhibit of the mar- 

 ket classes of cattle, to be shown at the St. Louis Exposition, September 12-24, in 

 connection with the exhibits of the colleges and experiment stations. It is not gen- 

 erally known that a complete exhibit of this kind requires some forty-eight animals, 

 even when but one specimen of each recognized grade is shown. The stall of each 

 animal will he fully labeled, giving class and grade to which the animal belongs and 

 for what purpose that particular kind is used. This will without doubt lie one of the 

 most attractive exhibits at the exposition. 



Iowa College and Station. — W. H. Olin, assistant in held crops, has resigned to 

 accept the head of the department of agronomy at the Colorado College and Station. 

 L. S. Klinck, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College, has been elected to 

 succeed him. < >. W. AVilcox has been elected to the position of assistant in soils. 

 Dr. Wilcox is a graduate of the University of Texas and has taken a Ph. D. degree 

 at the University of Chicago. J. W. Jones has been elected assistant in farm crops 

 to succeed T. S. Hunt. J. B. Weems has resigned his position as station chemist. 

 A successor has not yet been elected. Hugh G. Baker, who is at present connected 

 with the Bureau of Forestry, has been elected assistant in the department of hor- 

 ticulture. Mr. Baker is a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College and has 

 recently completed the course in forestry at Yale. He will devote one-half of his time 

 to forestry work of the college and one-half to work of the Bureau of Forestry. E. S. 

 Gardner, of Denver, Colo., has been elected to the position of station photogra- 

 pher; W. J. Rutherford has been advanced to the position of associate professor of 

 animal husbandry and professor in charge during Professor Kennedy's absence; and 

 Carl W. Gay has been appointed temporary assistant during the latter's absence. 

 Wayne Dinsmore, W. W. Smith, and J. A. Conover have also been elected assistants 

 in the department of animal husbandry, and M. L. Merritt assistant in horticulture. 



Contracts have been let for the erection of a new fireproof dairy building that will 

 cost, when completed January 1, 1905, about $60,000; and a horticultural barn and 

 storage room to cost about $6,000. 



Michigan College and Station. — B. O. Longyear, the botanist of the station, has 

 resigned to take up similar work with the Colorado Station. Professor Longyear 

 had, before going, nearly completed a monograph on the fleshy fungi, part of which 

 had been published as Bulletin 208. Another piece of unfinished work was a new 

 key to the classification of vetches, nearly or quite completed, but awaiting the con- 

 firmation of this year's observation before publishing. His successor is not yet 

 appointed. Among new lines of work undertaken by the station are: An investiga- 

 tion as to the causes and remedies for a disease of cattle on purely sandy areas, called 

 the "Grand Traverse disease," the principal symptom of which is refusal of food 

 and consequent inanition, a disease quite common in the northern central parts of 

 the State; an investigation of the relation of the quality of the feed to the quality 

 of the carcass in steers and lambs; and an investigation of the relation of fertilizers 

 and other factors to the number and potentiality of the nodules on the roots of 

 certain legumes. 



Mississippi Station. — The branch station at McNeill was struck by lightning July 

 24, and the entire building was destroyed by fire. The station office and library 

 were in the building, and the library was practically an entire loss. A second 

 branch station has been located by the board at Holly Springs, but the work there 

 will not be organized at present. 



Missouri University. — H. W. Quaintanee has been appointed instructor in economics, 

 and during the next year will give a course of lectures in agricultual economics to 



