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Georgia Station. — S. H. Fulton, of South Haven, 3Iich., has accepted the appoint- 

 ment as biologist and horticulturist of the station, vice A. L. Quaintance. C. L. 

 AVilloughby, of the Missouri Station, has been elected dairyman of the station, vice 

 H. J. Wing, who retires December 1, 1901. 



Idaho University and Station. — Charles A. Peters, Ph. D. (Yale), has been 

 appointed station chemist and professor of chemistry in the university, to succeed 

 >. Avery, who resigned at the close of the academic year to return to the University of 

 Nebraska. Charles X. Little, Ph. T>. (Yale), has been appointed professor of civil 

 engineering in the university and irrigation engineer at the station. A new pig- 

 gery, to be used in experimental work, has been erected at the college farm, at a cost 

 (,f $.325. 



Illinois College and Station. — J. H. Skinner, formerly of Purdue University, 

 has been appointed instructor in- animal husbandry in the college and assistant in 

 animal husbandry at the station. A. V. Stubenrauch, formerly assistant at the Cali- 

 fornia Station, has been appointed assistant in horticulture at the station and 

 instructor in horticulture in the college. A. C. Beal, a graduate of the University of 

 Illinois, has been appointed assistant in horticulture in the college. C. F. Hottes, 

 formerly assistant in l)otany in the university and for the past three years a student 

 at the University of Bonn, Germany, has been appointed assistant in botany at the 

 station and instructor in botany in ihe college. Heinrich Hasselbring, foniierly 

 assistant in horticulture at the. New York State Station, has been appointed assistant 

 in vegetable pathology at the station. H. E. Ward, formerly instructor in soil 

 physics in the university, has been made instructor in bacteriology in the college 

 and chief assistant in soil bacteriology in the station. Wm. H. Knox, formerly of 

 the South Dakota College and Station, has been appointed instructor in soil physics 

 in the college and chief assistant in soil physics at the station. Coates P. Bull, a 

 graduate of the Minnesota Agricultural College, has been appointed instructor in 

 farm crops in the college and assistant in farm crops at the station. His special 

 investigation work will be in plant breeding. R. S. Woodrow has been appointed 

 field assistant in sugar-beet investigations. J. H. Pettit, formerly of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed a.ssistant in chemistry at the station. E.* M. East, a gradu- 

 ate of the university, has also been appointed assistant in chemistry at the station. 

 A. J. Glover, formerly employed by the State Dairy and Food Commission of ^linne- 

 sota, has been appointed chief assistant in dairy husbandry. 



PcRDUE University and Station. — The horticultural department of the station 

 has been strengthened by the promotion of William Stuart, who has served for some 

 years as assistant botanist, to the position of associate station horticulturist. Profes- 

 sor Troop, as horticultui'ist, will give his attention more particularly to the fruits 

 proper, while Mr. Stuart will develop the gardening side of the horticultuial work. 

 A limited amount of vegetable gardening will be conducted under glass, in addition 

 to field gardening, and the station will also promote the general gardening interests 

 of Indiana. F. S. Johnston, assistant agriculturist in the New Hampshire College 

 and Station, has been appointed associate professor of agriculture in the univei'sity 

 and assistant agriculturist of the station. Herman Dorner, B. S., has been appointe t 

 assistant botanist. H. E.Van Norman, who for some years has served as farm sujier- 

 intendent and assistant in dairying at the university, has been jiromoted to the posi- 

 tion of instructor in dairying in the university and dairyman of the station. K. C. 

 Obrecht, B. S. Agr., a graduate of the Iowa Agricultural College, 1901, has been 

 appointed assistant in animal industry in the university and farm superintendent of 

 the .station. A. N. Hume, a graduate of the school of agriculture of the university, 

 1899-1900, has been appointed half-time assistant in the agricultural department of 

 the station. On September 1 the station adopted the scheme of placing weather sig- 

 nals on the rural mail delivery wagons going out from Lafayette. These signals are 

 enlarged reproductions of the weather flags, about 20 by 13J inches, made of tin and 



