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painted. They aro affixed to each side of the wagon by meanw of an iron frame, 

 aeconiniodating two flags on each side. Five wagons carry these flags, and a set is 

 also exposed on the front of the experiment-station building. A key to the flags has 

 been sent each person along the several rural routes. 



Iowa College aSd Station. — E. C. Myers, B. S. Agr., has l)een appointed instructor 

 in agricultural chemistry in the college, and C. E. Gray, B. S. Agr., has been appointed 

 assistant chemist of the station. Josei)h E. Guthrie succeeds Wm. T. Shaw as assist- 

 ant entomologist of the station. F. W. Faurot, assistant botantist, J. C. Brown, 

 a.«sistant chemist, and W. D. Hunter, assistant entomologist, have severed their con- 

 nection with the station. The latter has Ijccome assistant in the Division of Entom- 

 ology of tliis Department. 



Kansas College and Station. — The board of regents has divided the farm depart- 

 ment into the agricultural department and the department of dairy husbandry. 

 H. M. Cottrell remains in charge of the agricultural department, and D. H. Otis, who 

 has been assistant in dairying for some years, is placed in charge of the department 

 of dairy husbandry. He becomes at the same time professor of dairying in the col- 

 lege. Dr. N. S. Mayo, recently of the Storrs Agricultural College, has been elected 

 professor of veterinary science in the college and veterinarian of the station, a posi- 

 tion formerly held by him. F. C. Weber, B. S., a recent graduate of the Ohio State 

 University, has been elected assistant chemist, vice R. W. Clothier, resigned. J. M. 

 Westgate, assistant botanist, resigned his position August 1 to take a course of study. 



Maine University. — A. W. Harris has resigned the presidency of the university 

 to accept the ijosition of director of the Jacob Tome Institute, at Port Deposit, Md. 



Maryland College and Station. — J. B. S. Norton, M. S., has been appointed 



' I itanist and pathologist in the college and station, which makes him ex-officio State 



athologist. Professor Norton is a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College and 



lias^ipent several years at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. F. H. Blodgett, B. S., of 



Rutgers College, New Jersey, has been appointed his assistant. 



Mlssotri Station. — J. C. Whitten, horticulturist, has been granted leave of absence 

 for 16 months to study horticultural methods in Europe. W. L. Howaid, B. S., a 

 graduate of the University of Missouri, 1901, has been appointed assistant in horti- 

 culture, to succeed N. O. Booth, who has resigned to accept the position of assistant 

 horticulturist at the New York State Station. F. B. Mumford, professor of agricul- 

 ture, has returned from a 16 months' study of live-stock husbandry in Europe and 

 resumed his duties. Plans for the dairy building, and for a live stock judging pavil- 

 ion and veterinary laljoratories have been appi'oved, and work on these buildings will 

 be begun at once. 



Missouri State Fruit Station. — C. B. McAfee, of Springfield, has been appointed 

 a member of the board of trustees at the station in i)lace of M. T. Davis, resigned. 

 The experiment-station Ijuilding, to be used for offices and laboratories, has l)een 

 completed. 



Nebraska Station. — Henry B. Slade, A. B., has been appointed assistant station 

 <-hemist in place of R. W. Thatcher, who, as previously noted, has gone to the Wash- 

 ington Station. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — AV. D. Gibl)s, professor of agronomy in 

 the Ohio State University, has been elected professor of agriculture and director of 

 tiie station, and will enter upon his new duties January 1, 1902. He succeeds C. W. 

 iUirkett, who, as noted ))elow, has gone to North Carolina. Marion Imes, assistant' 

 in veterinary science and dairying, has resigned to ai-cept a position in the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry of this Department. H. P. Richardson, assistant in agricuUure 

 and farm superintendent, has resigned to accejjt the position of poultryman in the 

 North Carolina Station. Temiiorary arrangements have been made for carrying on 

 the work of the agricultural (h-partiiient, and the college year has begun witli an 

 increased nundjer of students in the c<iurses of agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. 



