NOTES, 



Arizona Station. — R. H. Forbes has been appointed chemist in the university 

 and station and began his duties September 1. 



Connecticut State Station. — The station is putting up a small forcing house 

 for studying the uses of commercial fertilizers in winter forcing of vegetables. 



Kentucky Station. — New vegetable forcing and propagating houses have been 

 erected during the fall for the horticultural department of the station. They con- 

 sisttof two even-span houses, each 20 by 50 feet, one for tomatoes, cucumbers, etc., 

 the other for plants requiring a cooler temperature; a 25 by 10 lean-to for propagat- 

 ing purjioses connecting the two first mentioned; and a frame building communi- 

 cating with ail the others, which contains office and seed room, jiotting room, tool 

 room, and a sleejiing room for gardener. The latest and most approved methods of 

 construction have been followed. The houses are heated by the hot-water system, 

 and benches arranged for subirrigation. These additions give a much-needed and 

 excellent equipment for experimental work along the lines of vegetable forcing and 

 propagating. 



Michigan Station. — C. D. Smith, professor of agriculture, has been made also 

 director of the station. 



New Mexico Station. — The following changes in the station staff have been 

 made: S. P. McCrca sncceeds H. Hadley as director; F. O. Kihlberg and H. H. 

 Griffin have been appointed superintendents of the substations at Las Vegas and 

 Aztec, respectively ; and F. Garcia succeeds the latter as assistant agriculturist and 

 horticulturist at the station. 



Oregon Station. — G. W. Shaw, for the past four years professor of chemistry in 

 the college, and from 1890 to 1892 chemist of the station, has again been elected to 

 the latter position. J. Fulton has been appointed assistant chemist. 



Pennsylvania Station. — H. Hayward, b. s., graduate of the course in agricul- 

 ture at Cornell University in the class of 1894, has been appointed instructor in 

 dairying in the college and assistant agriculturist of the station, vice W. H. Cald- 

 well, resigned. 



Personal mention. — Nathaniel Pringsheim, since 1857 editor of Jahrbuch fiir 

 wisaenschaftliche Botanik, died September 6, in his seventy-first year. 

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