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Michigan Station. — J. D. Towar, agriculturist of the station, has accepted a posi- 

 tion a.s Government professor of agriculture in South Australia. He will be principal 

 of the Agricultural College at Roseworthy, South Australia, and his duties will be 

 (1) to superintend the agricultural college and experimental farm and teach classes 

 thereat, (2) to advise the Government on all points relating to agriculture, and (3) to 

 lecture to agi'iculturists when required. Professor Towar will assume the duties of 

 this position June 1, 1902. 



Mixs'ESOT.A. College and Station. — A very attractive class bulletin entitled "Out- 

 line of Greenhouse Laboratory Work," by Samuel B. Green and R. S. Mackintosh, 

 has recently been issued by the division of horticulture. The bulletin is intended 

 especially as a guide for the use of the classes in the greenhouse laboratory work of 

 the school of agriculture. It is fully illustrated, and contains plain directions for 

 47 exercises, arranged in 21 lessons. The range covered is quite broad, including 

 seed testing, propagation, grafting, spraying, pruning, care of orchard stock, etc. 



Nebraska Station. — Lawrence Bruner started about February 10 on a trip to 

 Costa Rica, to occupy about three months. He will collect material for his own and 

 other departments in the university and station, and will give some attention to the 

 agriculture of the country. Professor Bruner was accompanied by several young men 

 who have undertaken commissions for a number of other institutions. 



New Mexico Station. — This station has taken up the matter of giving its bulletins 

 wider circulation among its constituents, and of publishing popular bulletins in the 

 Spanish language. The first bulletin of the Spanish edition will be a translation of 

 Bulletin No. 40, entitled "A Southern New Mexico Flower Garden." 



Ohio Station. — A bill has passed the Ohio legislature providing for the reorganiza- 

 tion of the board of control of the station. The board is to consist of five members, not 

 more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party, and who shall be 

 appointed by the governor for a term of five years. The duties of the board under 

 this act and of the director of the station are quite clearly defined. The board of con- 

 trol is constituted a body corporate, and to it are assigned the duties of appointing a 

 director, adopting by-laws, rules, and regulations for the government of the station, 

 and fixing the salaries and terms of office of employees, with the power to remove 

 employees at any time for cause sustained by written charges. The director is given 

 control of the affairs of the station in all its departments and made responsible to the 

 board for their efficient management. He is to appoint the chiefs of departments, 

 assistants, and other employees of the station, with the approval of the board, assign 

 them their respective duties, and is given authority to suspend any employee for 

 cause, reporting the matter at once to the board of control for final action. An annual 

 meeting of the board is provided for, with special meetings at the call of the presi- 

 dent or upon the written request of two members. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — H. G. Beard, of Shawnee, and T. J. Hart- 

 man, B. S., of Deer Creek, have been appointed members of the board of regents, 

 vice C. J. Benson and J. P. Gandy, resigned. Mr. Hartman, who is a graduate of 

 the college, class of 1898, was elected treasurer of the board at a recent meeting. 

 The short courses in agriculture, horticulture, and mechanic arts are now in progress, 

 and all that can be accommodated are in attendance. Work on the new barn, 

 engineering building, and addition to the library Iniilding is progressing, and all 

 will be ready for occupancy by the opening of the fall term. 



Oregon College and Station. — The resignation of President Thomas M. Gatch 

 as director of the station was accepted by the board at its January meeting, and 

 James Withycombe, the vice-director, was appointed to the position. At a previous 

 meeting the chemist, bacteriologist, and entomologist were relieved of all class work 

 in the college in order that they might devote their entire time to station work, and 

 the Vjotanist and horticulturist was relieved to a great extent of station work on 

 account of the heavy teaching duties. Ground has been broken for the erection of 



