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Connecticut State Station. — The station forester. Walter Mulford, lias resigned to 

 accept a position elsewhere, and Austin F. llawes has been appointed in his place. 



Indiana Station. — The legislature has appropriated $25,000 a year Eor the station, 

 with $5,000 for the remainder of the presenl fiscal year. Of this annual appropria- 

 tion, $5,000 is Eor feeding work, especially beef production; $5,000 fur experiments 

 in crop and soil improvement, and $5,000 for dairying. A.n advisory committee of 

 three is provided for, composed of representatives of the Corn Growers', Dairymen's, 

 and Live Stock Associations of the State. These associations took a leading part in 

 securing the appropriation. 



Kansas College and Station. — Dr. F. S. Shoenleber has been elected professor of 

 veterinary science in the college and veterinarian of the station, and will also be ex 

 officio State veterinarian. Doctor Shoenleher is a graduate of the Iowa State College 

 and of the Chicago Veterinary ( !ollege. At the time of Ins election he was dean and 

 professor of anatomy and histology in the McKillup Veterinary College of Chicago. 



Kentucky Station. — The new experiment station building has been completed and 

 is now occupied by the station force. The offices and laboratories of the old building 

 have been turned over to the chemical department of the college. 



Louisiana Stations. — The office of the director of the stations has been transferred 

 to Baton Rouge. S. E. McClendon, a former graduate of the agricultural course in 

 the university and recently assistant entomologist of the Louisiana Crop Pest Com- 

 mission, has been succeeded in the latter position by E. S. Hardy, and has accepted 

 the position of assistant director at the Baton Rouge Station. 



Maryland Station. — Stewart B. Shaw, a graduate of the Maryland Agricultural Col- 

 lege in the class of 190^, who made horticulture his specialty while in college, has 

 been appointed assistant horticulturist of the station. 



Michigan College. — Wells Hall, a dormitory accommodating 110 students and con- 

 taining suites of rooms for two literary societies and two boarding cluhs, was totally 

 destroyed by tire early Friday morning, February 10. None of the students were 

 injured, though many hail barely time to get out of the building on fire escapes. 

 The loss to the State will be about 820,000. 



Mississippi Station. — Two new branch stations have just been established, one at 

 Holly Springs and the other, known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Branch Station, 

 located at Stoneville. 



Nebraska Station. — The annual report of the station for the past year contains an 

 excellent concise summary of some of the more prominent results of the station's 

 work since its organization. 



Ohio University. — Dr. Carl W. (Jay, of the Iowa State College, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of animal husbandry, vice H. S. Arkell, who has resigned to accept 

 a position at the Ontario Agricultural College. 



Oklahoma College. — The week's course in stock judging and seed selection, which 

 was offered by the college for the first time this year, was attended by 135 farmers. 

 The course lasted from February 7 to 13, sessions being held from 8.30 a. m. to 10 

 p. in. Congress has passed an act giving the college title to a school section adjoin- 

 ing the college farm on the west. The farm now comprises 1,000 acres, in which 

 nearly all of the types of soil found in Oklahoma are represented. 



Pennsylvania Station. — Thorne M. Carpenter has resigned his position as assistant 

 chemist of the station and assistant in the investigations with the respiration calorim- 



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