NOTES. 



Alabama College Station. — D. T. Gray, of the University of Illinois, has been 

 appointed assistant in animal industry in the college and station, vice N. C. Rew, 

 resigned. At the recent meeting of the board of trustees provision was made for the 

 continuation of the cooperative work in animal industry with this Department, and 

 also for the holding of a summer school or "round-up" farmers' institute, July 25 to 

 August 2. 



Arizona Station. — Henry B. Slade, associate chemist, died suddenly of heart failure 

 June 5. Mr. Slade was probably best known for his discovery of the action of 

 enzyms upon organic compounds in sorghum, with the formation of prussic acid to 

 which the poisonous effect of sorghum under certain conditions is due. His death 

 is a severe loss to the station, where the researches which he had begun during his 

 brief association of eight months gave promise of valuable results. The Territorial 

 legislature has made an appropriation of $20,000 to the university, including the 

 following amounts for the benefit of the experiment station: $1,300 for planting and 

 care of a date orchard at Yuma, $1,500 for printing and binding for the next two 

 years, and $1,500 for the erection of a barn and seed room which the station will 

 have the use of. 



Arkansas University and Station. — H. S. Hartzog resigned as president of the college 

 at the close of the college year, and J. M. Tillman was elected to succeed him. C. F. 

 Adams, a graduate of the University of Missouri, has been appointed entomologist 

 to the station, and R. W. Wade, of the Ontario Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed agriculturist. 



Florida University and Station. — The board of control recently appointed under a 

 new law to locate the State institutions has selected Gainesville as the future seat of 

 the university. The change from Lake City will not be made for a year. C. F. 

 Dawson, veterinarian, severed his connection with the university and station at the 

 close of the college year. 



Pnrdne University and Station. — C. O. Swanson has been appointed instructor in 

 agricultural chemistry in the college of agriculture and assistant chemist in the sta- 

 tion. Fred Rasmussen, a graduate of the Iowa Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed instructor in dairying in the college. 



Iowa College and Station. — L. S. Klinck, assistant in farm crops, has resigned to 

 accept a position in the new agricultural college which is being founded by Sir Wil- 

 liam C. Macdonald, known as the Macdonald Foundation for Rural Education, at 

 Ste. Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal. The board of trustees of the college have 

 decided to confer the degree of bachelor of agricultural engineering on students who 

 complete a prescribed course in this subject. Graduates of either engineering or 

 agricultural courses are eligible after the completion of one year's advanced work. 

 A "good-roads school" held from June 12-17, the first effort of the kind, was very 

 successful. 



Kansas College and Station. — J. T. Willard will spend the summer in Europe, where 

 he will make a special study of agricultural experiment station and educational work, 

 visiting typical institutions for that purpose. Professor Willard will also attend the 

 International Congress of Agricultural Education at Liege, Belgium, July 28 and 29. 



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