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New Mexico College Axn Station. — Pendino; the election of a successor to Presi- 

 dent F. W. Sanders, Francis E. Lester, registrar of the institution, is executive officer 

 in cliarge of the college. The station is investigating the best methods of irrigating 

 from wells, and is collecting data from persons who have had experience with this 

 system. J. J. Vernon and J. D. Tinsley have made a tour of investigation in tht 

 Pecos Valley, in southeastern New Mexico, to study the stock interests and the soil 

 and irrigation conditions in that valley, in the course of which consideral^le data and 

 information of value to the station in its work were obtained. During the past sum- 

 mer E. O. Wooton was engaged in investigating the timber and grazing interests of 

 southeastern New Mexico, under the direction of the Bureau of Forestry of this 

 Department. 



New York Cornell Station. — O. F. Henziker has been appointed ])aoteriologist 

 of the station, vice A. R. Ward, who, as noted above, has gone to the California 

 Station. 



New York State Station. — H. J. Eustace, a graduate of Michigan Agricultural 

 College, 1901, has been chosen student assistant in botany. Edwin B. Hart has 

 resumed his duties as assistant chemist, after a year's leave of absence spent in study 

 in Germany. J. Arthur LeClerc, assistant chemist, has been granted one year's 

 leave, also for the purpose of study in Europ.an universities. Amasa D. Cook has 

 resigned his position as assistant chemist, to complete a course of post-graduate study 

 at Cornell University. The director's residence is rapidly aj^proaching completion. 



North Carolina College and Station. — Charles W. Burkett, formerly of the New 

 Hampshire College and Station, has been elected professor of agriculture in the col- 

 lege and agriculturist of the station, vice B. Irby. Tait Butler, formerly of the 

 Kansas College and Station, has been elected professor of animal industry in the col- 

 lege and veterinarian of the station. F. L. Stevens, Ph. D. (University of Chicago), has 

 been elected botanist of the station. W. F. ]\Iassey has resigned his connection with 

 the college and now devotes all his time to station work in horticulture. In addition 

 to the work already in progress, an experiment in the winter growing of lettuce 

 under glass, with a view to determining the best varieties, as well as fertilizer require- 

 ments and methods of preventing rust, has been started. An experiment lias been 

 planned with beef cattle, and a number of thoroughbred animals will be added to 

 the station herd, with a view to improving the cattle of the section and showing 

 what can be done with stock in connection with cotton farming. The station will 

 erect a special barn for these animals, and will make experiments in feeding grasses 

 and forage plants a prominent feature of the work. The State department of agri- 

 culture has conducted, under the direction of the State chemist, considerable experi- 

 mental work during the past two years. This work has been confined mainly to 

 surveying, classifying, and mapping the soils of the State, and to conducting on 

 some of the typical soils fertilizer, variety, culture, and new-crop tests. In this con- 

 nection the department has secured two farms on type areas of the coastal plain 

 section of the State. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The vacancy caused by the resignation of E. 

 M. Wilcox, who has gone to Alabama, has been fiUed by the appointment of Walter 

 R. Shaw, Ph. D., as botanist and entomologist in the college and station. Work has 

 commenced on the new buildings for the college and station. An addition to the 

 library building, to contain quarters for the departments of botany and entomology 

 and domestic economy, and an auditorium, an engineering building, and a barn 

 comprise the chief improvements, the cost of which will be $54,000. 



Oregon College and Station. — F. M. McElfresh has resigned his position as 

 assistant in zoology and entomology, and William T. Shaw, recently of the Iowa 

 College and Station, has been elected to till the vacancy as biulogist in the college. 



