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Kansas College and Station. — R. J. Brock has resigned his membership on the board 

 of regents ami lias been succeeded by Geo. S. Murphey, Manhattan, Kans. Dr. 

 X. s. Mayo has resigned his position as professor of veterinary science in the college 

 and veterinarian of the station to accent the position of vice-director of the Central 

 Experiment Station of Cuba and chief of the division of animal industry. Dr. Mayo 

 first went to the Kansas institution in 1890 and has been connected with it ever since, 

 excepting four years — from 1S97 to 1901 — when he held a similar position in the Con- 

 necticut Agricultural College and Station. Michael F. Ahearn, a graduate of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College of the class of 1904, has been appointed foreman 

 of the greenhouses. Geo. F. Freeman, a graduate of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute in 1903, but recently instructor in botany in the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has been appointed assistant in botany in the college and station. The college 

 is installing a system of waterworks of its own, including the necessary piping, pump- 

 ing machinery, and an elevated tank with a capacity of 100,000 gal. The auditorium, 

 with a seating capacity of 2,700, is nearing completion. An addition to the wood- 

 working shops is in progress of construction and will add materially to the room for 

 machinery and for classes in mechanical drawing. 



Maine Station. — In cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Depart- 

 ment, the station has begun the erection of a poultry house 120 by 16 ft. This is to 

 be an open curtain-front house of about the same capacity as the other two houses at 

 the station. In addition to the enlargement of the breeding work for egg produc- 

 tion that will be afforded by the new house, experiments to extend over a series of 

 years upon the relation between floor space and egg production are to be undertaken. 



Maryland College and Station. — The position of horticulturist of the college and 

 station has been rilled by the appointment of Win. N. Hutt, recently of the Utah 

 Station. He entered upon his duties about November 1. The title of the position 

 of agriculturist has been changed to agronomist. E. P. Walls, a graduate of the 

 Maryland Agricultural College, class of 1903, has been appointed assistant agronomist. 

 He is attached to the station, and will devote all of his time to the investigations of 

 his department. 



Massachusetts Station. — George W. Patch has been appointed meteorological 

 observer, vice F. F. Henshaw. Richard H. Robertson, assistant chemist, died Sep- 

 tember 9. 



Michigan College and Station. — R. H. Pettit, entomologist, has also assumed the 

 duties of botanist of the station, the move being in the direction to separate more 

 fully the station work from that of the college. F. O. Foster, recently at the Okla- 

 homa College and Station, and lately engaged in commercial dairying in Baltimore, 

 has been appointed instructor in dairying, vice John Michels, who has gone to Wis- 

 consin University to take a post-graduate course, giving special attention to dairy 

 cattle. 



Montana College and Station. — James Reid, president of the college, has resigned. 

 He has been succeeded by Prof. James M. Hamilton, who comes to the college from 

 the State University at Missoula, where he was vice-president and professor of psy- 

 chology and history. James Dryden, formerly meteorologist and poultryman at the 

 Utah Station, has accepted a position as clerk and poultryman at the station. 



New York State Station. — N. 0. Booth, recently horticulturist in the Washington 

 College and Station, has returned to the above station as assistant horticulturist, vice 

 V. A. Clark, who, as previously noted, has gone to the Arizona Station. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — The Bureau of Animal Industry of this Depart- 

 ment has assigned $1,000 of the recent Congressional appropriation for investigations 

 in the breeding and feeding of domestic animals, to the cooperative investigations 

 with the respiration calorimeter, now in progress at the station. Plans have been 

 made for an investigation upon the influence of age and individuality upon the 

 metabolism of cattle, and two yearling steers, one a Polled Angus and one a Jersey, 



