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Alabama College and Station. — William Le Roy Broun, president of the college 

 and chairman of the .station council, died suddenly January 23, 1902, in his seventy- 

 fifth year. A sketch of Dr. Broun's life and services is given elsewhere in this 

 number. 



Alabama Canebrake Station. — H. Benton, director of the station, has resigned 

 and J. ^I. Richeson has been elected to succeed him. 



California University and Station. — G. W. Shaw, formerly of the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College and Station and more recently chemist in the beet-sugar factory at 

 Grand Junction, Colo., has been appointed assistant professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry, in charge of beet-sugar industry. F. T. Bioletti, bacteriologist and viticulturist, 

 has resigned to accept a position as instructor in agriculture and viticulture in the 

 Elsenburg School of Agriculture, Cape Colony, South Africa. A. R. Ward, veteri- 

 narian of the station, has been appointed instructor in bacteriology. Warren T. 

 Clarke has been appointed assistant entomologist to make a special study of the life 

 history of the peach moth; he entered upon the work January 1 among the orchards 

 of the Foothill region of the State. After ten years' experience the station is now 

 ready to make a final report on the behavior of the northern deciduous fruits at the 

 Southern California Substation near Pomona. These embrace apples (not Russian), 

 pears and plums (European), peaches (Persian), apricots, almonds, and nectarines. 



Kansas College and Station. — A compromise has been effected with the settlers 

 on the Fort Hays Reservation, ceded to the State of Kansas by the Government for 

 a branch normal school and an experiment station. The compromise gives the set- 

 tlers leases of from two to five years' duration in exchange for complete relinquish- 

 ment of claims to the land. This was done in order that work might be commenced 

 there the coming season, and the arrangement renders a considerable tract of land 

 available for experimentation. In the division of the land between the normal school 

 and the agricultural college, the latter obtained about 3,500 acres, including the part 

 most desirable for experimental purposes. The board of regents has made provision 

 for a foreman, who shall carry on the work at Fort Hays under the general super- 

 vision of a designated member of the board. The buildings on the reservation are to 

 be repaired so as to make them available for use. The station council has not yet 

 formally decided upon the experiments to be undertaken, but in general there will 

 be tests on a rather large scale with crops and methods, with special reference to the 

 needs of regions having deficient rainfall. As the new station occupies a field dif- 

 ferent climatically from that of any other station in the country, it is thought that 

 the results obtained there should be applicable to quite a large region. 



Maine Station. — L. J. Shepard has resigned his j^osition as assistant in agriculture 

 at the station to accept a similar position in the National Farm School at Doyles- 

 town. Pa. 



Massachusetts Station — S. W. Wiley, assistant chemist in the fertilizer control 

 work, has resigned to accept a position in the factory of the Bowker Fertilizer Com- 

 pany at Elizabethport, N. J. 

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