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accept the liosition of assistant analyst in the hiboratory of the State Dairy and Food 

 Department, at Lansing. 



Minnesota College and Station. — F. L. Washburn, formerly of the Oregon Col- 

 lege and Station, and more recently connected with the University of Oregon, has been 

 elected entomologist in the college and station. He will enter upon his new duties 

 in June. 



Jlississippi College and Station. -^The recentappropriation of the State legislature 

 is by far the most liberal ever made for the institution. Besides making provision for 

 chairs of geology and mining and of civil and rural engineering, both of which are 

 new, the appropriation carries the following provision for improvements and woi'k: 

 A new building for agriculture and horticulture, scientific departments, library, and 

 museum, §40,000; intirmary building, 810,000; additional equipment for textile 

 school, $13,030; additional equipment for mechanic arts department, ^8,300; enlarg- 

 ing capacity of mechanic arts building, $5,000; residence for director of textile school, 

 |>1,500; equipment for English, veterinary, preparatory, agricultural, horticultural, 

 and biological departments, $1,900; farmers' institutes for 1902-1903, $6,000; and 

 a branch experiment station at McNeill, $13,000 for the biennial period. This is in 

 the pine woods region where fertilizers are not used and do not pay under present 

 conditions. * In addition to fertilizer tests the aim will be to make a thorough test of 

 a great variety of crops, giving much attention to orchard and garden crops. Work 

 with live stock will probably be made a feature. The action of the legislature in 

 appropriating for this branch station is thetirst substantial recognition on the part of 

 the State of the importance of the work of the experiment station and the value of 

 investigation as a basis for improving agricultural practice. 



Missouri State Fruit Station. — T. M. Culver, of Koshkonong, Mo., has been 

 appointed a member of the board of trustees, in place of L. O. Hailey, whose term 

 has expired. 



Cornell University. — The college of agriculture has announced the following 

 cooperative experiments for the season 1902: Fertilizers — a soil test with nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid, and potash, singly and in combinations; wheat — tests of fly-resistmg 

 varieties, started last fall; beans — tests of standard field sorts; sugar beets — test of 

 varieties and the adaptation of soils; potatoes — tests of varieties and methods of cul- 

 ture; buckwheat — varieties and methods of treating the crop, and alfalfa — a study of 

 the adaptation of the different soils and methods of securing best results. A bill is 

 now before the State legislature appropriating $200,000 for new buildings for the 

 college of agriculture. 



North Carolina College and Station. — Alexander Rhodes, assistant horticul- 

 turist, has resigned to accept the position of horticulturist at the State Normal School 

 of Georgia, at Athens. B. F. AValton, a former graduate of the college, has been 

 appointed superintendent of the agricultural experimental work of the station. 



Ohio University and Station. — Merritt F. Miller, a graduate of the agricultural 

 college of the university, and recently connected with the Bureau of Soils of this 

 Department, has been elected to succeed W. D. Gibbs. Under the bill which 

 recently passed the State legislature providing for the reorganization of the board of 

 control of the station, the governor has appointed an entirely new board, constituted 

 as follows: F. Whittlesey, of Atwater; Alva Agee, of Cheshire; D. D. White, of 

 Castalia; O. E. Bradfute, of Cedarville, and D. L. Sampson, of Cincinnati. The 

 board has organized by the election of Alva Agee as president, O. E. Bradfute as 

 secretary, and D. L. Sampson as treasurer. At a meeting held :\Iarch 4, C. E. Thome 

 was reelected director, and the resignation of F. i\I. Webster was received, to take 

 effect March 31. 



Rhode Island St.\tion.-^J. W. Kellogg, assistant chemist in the department 

 of feeds and feeding at the Massachusetts Station, has been appointed assistant 

 chemist of the station, and entered upon his new duties Marrh 15. L. P. Sprague, 



