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Illinois Station. — G. E. Morrow's resignation of his positions in the Station and 

 College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois took effect September 1. E. H. 

 Farrington Jias resigned as chemist of the station to accept the position of associate 

 professor of dairy husbandry at the University of Wisconsin. 



Mississippi Station. — E.R. Lloyd has been made assistant director, vice W. L. 

 McGee, Avho is now connected with tlie South Carolina Station. W. R. Perkins has 

 been appointed assistant chemist, vice L. G. Patterson, resigned; and J. S. Moore 

 has been appointed assistant to the director. 



Nebraska Station. — Special work is being done by Prof. O. V. P. Stout, of the 

 university, in gauging the streams of the State; in collecting data relative to tbe 

 water supply of the State for irrigation, (1) in the streams and (2) in the underflow; 

 and in investigating the means for getting the water upon the land cheaply and 

 effectively. 



New York Cornell Station. — Prof. H. H. Wing is no longer deputy director 

 and secretary of this station, but he still holds his position as experiment station 

 worker. 



Ohio Station. — A barn covering about 10,000 square feet, a tool house, and a 

 dairy house are being built at tlie station. Miss B. E. Wildman has resigned her 

 position as bursar to the station and ti-easurer to the board of control, and P. A. 

 Hinman, of Cleveland, has been appointed her successor. W. G. Harry, recently a 

 student in the dairy school of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed dairy- 

 man in the station. 



Utah Station. — J. A. Widtsoe has been appointed station chemist. 



Washington Station.— A silo with a capacity of 6.5 tons has just been finished, 

 and a brick root house with an implement room in the second story and a greenhouse 

 16 by 100 feet are now being constructed. Extensive experiments are being carried 

 out in feeding hogs with wheat. The preliminary results of analyses of samples of 

 sugar beets grown in the State are very satisfactory. 



American Forestry Association. — This association held its summer meeting at 

 Brooklyn, New York, August 22. Prof. Smock, State geologist of New Jersey, read a 

 paper on the forests of that State and J. Gifford read one on forest fires in the same 

 State and the methods of their prevention. Prof. F. H. King, of the Wisconsin 

 Station, gave the results of his personal observations on the destructive effects oi" 

 drying winds and the protection to crops aflorded by woodlands and wind-breaks. 

 Mr. Putnam, of Wisconsin, in treating of Western pine timber lands proposed the 

 establishment of State reservations in Wisconsin by the cession on the part of the 

 lumbermen of pine lands which have l>een cut over by them. An interesting account 

 of the petrified forests of Arizona was given by H. C. Hovey, with lantern slide illus- 

 trations. These forests, it seems, are being ruthlessly destroyed, and Mr. Hovey 

 urged that they should be acquired by the Government and preserved. 



The Association improved the occasion to reiterate its A'iews in regard to the 

 preservation of the public forests, and passed a resolution commending the action 

 of the Public Lands Committee of the House of Representaiives at the recent 

 session of Congress in urging the passage of a bill for the protection of the public 

 timber lands. This bill, which unfortunately has not yet been put upon its passage, 

 not only provides for the care and protection of the reservations and other public 



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