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CoxxECTicuT Storks Station'. — W. A. Stocking, ji-., has })een appointed dairy 

 experimenter, and W. M. Esten, assistant in dairy bacteriology at the station. 

 George S. Palmer, of Norwich, and B. C. Patterson, of Torrington, have been elected 

 members of the governing board in place of T. S. Gold and S. 0. Bowen, and 

 appointed on the executive committee of that board. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — The first bulletin of this station has just been issued. 

 It describes chicken diseases in Hawaii, which have prevailed to such an extent as 

 to very seriously interfere with chicken raising in the islands. 



Hawaii Sugar Planters' Station. — Owing to ill health, R. E. Blouin has resigned 

 from the position of director of the station and has returned to the Louisiana Station 

 as assistant director, the position formerly held by him before going to the islands. 

 C. F. Eckart, assistant chemist, has been appointed director and chief chemist of 

 the station; S. S. Peck has been made first assistant chemist, and E. J. Lea appointed 

 second assistant chemist. A new laboratory has been erected and thoroughly equipped 

 for the execution of all kinds of chemical work bearing on the growing and manu- 

 facture of sugar. 



Maine University and Station. — G. E. Fellows, Ph. D., assistant professor of 

 history in the University of Chicago, has been elected president of the LTniversity of 

 Maine. M. B. Cummings, B. S. (University of Vermont, 1901), has been appointed 

 assistant in horticulture at the station and entered upon his duties January 1. 



Minnesota College and Station. — Thomas Shaw, professor of animal husbandry 

 and widely known as an agricultural Avriter, has resigned his position, to take effect 

 April 1, to become editor of The St. Paul Farmer. The school of agriculture is taxed 

 to its full capacity this winter, there being over 450 regular students, and 110 fac- 

 torymen in attendance at the dairy school, some of the latter being there for the 

 second or third time. A special course for farmers was begun January 14. 



Missouri Station. — T. I. Mairs, assistant in agriculture, has been elected assistant 

 in home reading courses at the Pennsylvania State College and entered upon his 

 new duties January 1. R. B. Oliver, of Cape Girardeau, has been selected as a mem- 

 ber of the board of curators during the absence of Walter Williams in Europe. 



Nebraska Station.— At the November election, Elisha C. Calkins, of Kearney, 

 and Carl J. Ernst, of Lincoln, were elected to membership on the board of regents to 

 succeed H. L. Goold and C. H. Morrill, whose terms expired January 1. 



New Jersey Stations. — William P. Allen has been appointed assistant chemist. 



Cornell University. — The Forestry School of Cornell University will hereafter 

 confer the degree of Forest Engineer in place of Bachelor of the Science of Forestry, 

 the former being thought more appropriate and more expressive of the kind of work 

 for which the student has been prepared. 



Oklahoma College and Station.— T. B. Ferguson, of Watonga, has succeeded 

 Wm. M. Jenkins as Governor and ex-offido member of the board of regents. 



Oregon Station. — A note in The Oregonian announces experiments at the Oregon 

 Station in preserving silage by a new method. Two silos were filled with corn in 



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