NOTES. 



Alabama College axd Station. — F. S. Earle has resigned hi? position in this 

 institntion to accept a position in connection with the botanic gardens at Bronx 

 Park, X. Y. 



Colorado CoLLECiE and Station. — "W. R. Thomas has succeeded P. A. Amiss as 

 principal of the State board of agriculture. Bids are to be called for for the construc- 

 tion of the foundation of a building for the department of irrigation engineering and 

 the offices of the experiment station. This Iniilding will cost about $40,000. E. S. 

 G. Titus, who has been acting assistant entomologist of the station for the past year, 

 has accepted the position of assistant to S. A. Forbes, of the Illinois Station and 

 Bureau of Natural History. The board of control has authorized the completion of 

 the sale of what has l^een called the Divide Substation and transferred the property 

 to the purchaser. 



CoxxECTici'T State Station. — S. W. Johnson has resigned his position as a mem- 

 ber of the station staff. "\V. E. Britton has 1)een appointed State entomologist under 

 the recent act of the general assembly providing for the inspection of nurseries and 

 for experiments in combating insect pests. The act provides that the State ento- 

 mologist is to be a member of the station staff and is to receive no other salary than 

 that paid by the station. An annual appropriation of $3,000 is made for carrying on 

 the work. Walter Mulford has been appointed State forester under an act of the 

 general assembly concerning the reclamation of barren lands by tree planting. 



Idaho College and Station. — John Henry Dye, C. E., a graduate of the Uni- 

 versitv of ^Michigan, has been elected professor of civil engineering in the college and 

 irrigation engineer of the station. 



Iowa College and Station. — John A. Craig, of the department of animal husbandry 

 of the college and station, has resigned to accept a position as editor in Des Moines, 

 Iowa, his resignation to take effect September 1. W. J. Kennedy, of the University 

 of Illinois, has been elected to succeed Professor Craig. C. H. Eckles, dairy bacte- 

 riologist and assistant in the dairy department, has resigned to accept an assistant 

 professorship in charge of dairying at the University of Missouri. 



Kansas College and Station. — R. "W. Clothier, assistant chemist of tlie station, 

 has resigned to accept the professorship of agriculture and chemistry in the Normal 

 School at Cape (lirardeau, Mo. The station has recently completed experiments in 

 the feeding of 130 calves for the production of "baby beef" and is undertaking 

 investigations in pasture and range improvement, and with forage plants in connec- 

 tion with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. At a recent meeting 

 of the board of regents the two departments of chemistry in the college were com- 

 bined, J. T. Willard lieing made professor of chemistry and George F. Weida assist- 

 ant. E. A. Popenoe Avas relieved of horticultural work, the latter being left for the 

 present in charge of A. Dickens. 



Maryland Station. — A. L. Quaintance, "SI. S., of the Georgia Station, has been 

 appointed associate horticulturist and entomologist. E. P. Sandsten. ^I. S., a gradu- 

 ate of the Minnesota University, has been apjwinted general a.-sistant in horticultural 

 work, succeeding H. P. Gould, resigned. F. P. Veitch has resigned as assistant in 



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