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Massachusetts Agricultural College, has been appointed assistant chemist to this 

 station, vice C. W. Mudge, resigned. 



Ohio University. — E. S. Guthrie, a graduate of the Iowa Agricultural College, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of dairying. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — W. R. Shaw, botanist and entomologist, resigned at 

 the close of the college year and is succeeded by J. F. Nicholson, formerly assistant 

 in bacteriology. W. L. English, B. S., a graduate of the college, has been appointed 

 assistant in animal husbandry in the college and station, vice E. H. Riley, resigned. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — The State has granted an appropriation of $500 

 for repairs to poultry buildings and improvements to the yards; also $20,000 for a 

 greenhouse for college and station purposes, and for a poultry building for the college. 

 Additional appropriations have been made for paying a deficit which has existed for 

 several years in connection with the college, and $4,000 has also Keen given for a 

 student labor fund and for continuing the work of the agricultural demonstrator. 



South Carolina College and Station. — At the June meeting of the hoard of trustees 

 it was decided to separate the directorship of the station from the presidency of the 

 college, and to make the head of the agricultural department the director. J. S. 

 Newman severed his connection with the station, having resigned a year ago, his 

 resignation to take place at this time. J. N. Harper, formerly connected with the 

 Kentucky College and Station, was elected director of the station and placed in 

 charge of the agricultural department of the college. C. L. Newman, formerly of 

 the Arkansas University and Station, was elected associate professor of agriculture 

 and agriculturist to the station. Arrangements have been made to enable the station 

 men to devote one-half of their time to research work, giving three consecutive days of 

 the week to the station work. The board also appropriated $6,000 for the erection of 

 a greenhouse, to lie used in connection with the agricnltural department and largely 

 for the purposes of the station. It will be equipped with all modern appliances for 

 high-grade work. 



Tennessee University and Station. — Gordon M. Bentley, of the North Carolina Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed instructor in zoology in the university and assistant State 

 entomologist. W. E. Grainger has been appointed associate chemist to the station. 



Utah College and Station. — P. A. Yoder, associate chemist, has been elected director 

 of the station, vice J. A. Widtsoe, and William Jardine agronomist, vice L. A. Merrill. 

 The legislature at its last session appropriated $39,000 for experimental work under 

 the station, apportioned as follows: For experiments in arid farming, $15,000; irriga- 

 tion and drainage investigations, in cooperation with this office, $10,000; for a central 

 experimental farm to be devoted to fruit growing, $8,000, and for the maintenance of 

 the branch station in the southern part of the State, $6,000. 



"Washington College and Station. — \V. A. Linklater, who for the past two years has 

 been associated with the correspondence school at Sioux City, Iowa, has been 

 appointed head of the animal husbandry department of the college and station. 



Elementary Agriculture in Wisconsin. — The Dunn County School of Agriculture 

 and Domestic Science, Menomonie, Wis., graduated this year a class of 19 hoys and 

 girls, 8 of whom completed the regular two-year course and lithe short course. The 

 commencement address was given by Dean W. A. Henry. The school offers this 

 year for the first time a short summer course, beginning June 21, in which instruc- 

 tion in agriculture, manual training, and domestic economy are the leading features. 

 The purpose of the course is to prepare teachers to meet the requirements of a law 

 passed at tlie recent session of the State legislature requiring that agriculture be 

 taught in the rural schools. 



Agriculture at Cambridge University. — The hoard of agricultural studies at Cambridge 

 University reports, according to Nature, a steady increase both in the number of 

 students attending the agricultural courses and in the number presenting themselves 

 for the examinations. The number of students is now close to 50, an increase of 7 



