520 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Holstein cows and heifers, 30 grade Merino sheep, a pure-hred Berkshire sow, ami a 

 pure-bred Duroc Jersey sow. 



New York State Station. — S. A. Beach lias been elected professor of horticulture in 

 the [owa College, and horticulturist to the experiment station, and will enter upon 

 his duties next September. 



North Carolina Station.— The North Carolina State board of agriculture at its recent 

 meeting established an experiment farm near Hendersonville, in the mountain sec- 

 tion of the State, where experiments will be conducted with orchard fruits and truek- 

 ing crops which are or can be grown to advantage in the mountain section of the 

 State. Work will be begun on this farm early in January. 



The location of another farm in the eastern trucking section of the State was 

 authorized for the purpose of conducting experiments with truck crops, the growing 

 of which has become a large and important industry in the eastern section of the 

 State. A site has not yet been selected, but it is hoped to obtain it in time to begin 

 work in the spring. The department already has in operation two farms of the 

 kind referred to above, one being located on a good type of red-clay land in the Pied- 

 mont section and the other in the northeastern coastal plain section. Both of these 

 farms are given up to experiments with general farm crops. They have been in 

 operation two and four years, respectively, and have proved quite satisfactory 

 for the purpose for which they were used. 



Ohio Station. — F. A. Derthick has resigned his membership in the board of control 

 in order to accept a similar position in the board of trustees of the State University, 

 and T. C. Laylin, of Norwalk, has been appointed in his place. 



Oklahoma College and Station.— C. H. Tourgee, B. S. A., a graduate of the Iowa 

 State College, has been appointed assistant in dairying in the college and assistant in 

 agriculture in the station, vice J. B. Griffing, resigned. 



Pennsylvania Station. — The last number of Landwirtschaftlicke Jahrbiicher, the official 

 organ ©f the Prussian ministry of agriculture, contains a translation in full of the 

 report upon the first year's experiments with the respiration calorimeter at the 

 Pennsylvania Station, which recently appeared as Bulletin 51 of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry. J. P. Gray has been appointed by the United States Secretary of 

 Agriculture as assistant expert in animal nutrition for four months beginning Decem- 

 ber 20, and assigned for duty in connection with the investigations to be carried on 

 with the respiration calorimeter. 



Tennessee Station.— H. A. Morgan, professor of zoology and entomology in the 

 Louisiana State University and entomologist of the experiment station, has been 

 chosen director of the Tennessee Station. 



West Virginia Station. — Frank H. Grout has been appointed assistant chemist and 

 will devote his time largely to work for the State geological survey under the direc- 

 tion of the station chemist. 



Wyoming College and Station.— When the Wyoming State constitution was adopted 

 in 1890 the several State institutions were temporarily located for a period of ten 

 years. The last State legislature provided that the question of permanent location 

 of State institutions should be submitted to popular vote, and by the recent election 

 the State University has been permanently located at Laramie. The question of 

 separating the agricultural college and experiment station from the university will 

 again come before the legislature this winter, and it is hoped that final disposition 

 of the matter may be made. Because of the high altitude of the experiment station 

 at Laramie, which makes its conditions different from those of any other station, there 

 is a strong sentiment in favor of its present location. 



Referees of Official Agricultural Chemists. — The referees appointed for the coming 

 year are announced as follows: Phosphwic <t<-id, E. W. Magruder, Richmond, Va.; 

 nitrogen determination, F. A. Urner, Geneva, N. Y.; separation of nitrogenous bodies, 

 R. Harcourt, Guelph, Canada (milk and cheese proteids); potash, G. S. Fraps, Col- 



