98 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



and of D. L. Jnuies, as assistant in dairy liusbandry to engage in commercial 

 worlc. 



Iowa College. — Data recently compiled as to the occupations of the SS4 

 graduates during the past ten years whose present occupation is known, show 

 that 57 are engaged in teaching, research, and expert work in agriculture, and 

 132 in farming. 



H. J. Evans has been appointed instructor in dairying and has entered upon 

 his duties. 



Kansas College and Station. — Indiisiridlist notes that A. G. Phillips, assistant 

 in poultry husbandry in the college and poultryman in the station, has accepted 

 a position in charge of the new poultry division in the Indiana Station, begin- 

 ning August 1. A farmers' convention, to bring before the people of the State 

 the very extensive field trials and other experiments at the Fort Hays substa- 

 tion, was held at Fort Hays June G and 7. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Judge Henry S. Barker, chief justice of 

 the State Court of Appeals, has accepted the presidency of the university, and 

 will enter upon his duties January 1. 1911. At the last meeting of the board 

 of trustees, a board of control for the station was appointed as follows : R. C. 

 Stoll. chairman, Lexington; C. B. Nichols, Lexington; L. L. Walker, Lancaster; 

 Acting President James G. White of the university : and Director Scovell of 

 the station. A committee consisting of this board and the executive committee 

 of the university was appointed to reorganize the college of agriculture. 



Bills appropriating $;50.0(X) for substations. $ltt.O<)0 for seed inspection, and 

 .$20,000 annually for the maintenance of the university were passed l)y the last 

 legislature, but vetoed by the governor because of insufficient funds in the 

 .state treasury. A bill appropriating $2,000 for the preparation and distribu- 

 tion by the station of hog-cholera serum was enacted. 



W. H.' Scherffius has resigned as agronomist and AVilliam Rodes as assistant 

 chemist. They have been succeeded respectively by George Roberts, now 

 chemist of the fertilizer division, and B. D. Wilson. D. J. Healey has been 

 appointed bacteriologist and microsco])ist. 



Maine University and Station. — Dr. George E. Fellows has resigned as presi- 

 dent of the university. Alfred K. Burke and Raymond P. Norton, 1910 gradu- 

 ates of the university, have been appointed assistant chemists in the station, 

 their appointments dating from July 1 and September 1 respectively. 



Maryland Station. — C. L. Opperman has resigned as associate poultryman to 

 accept a position in the animal husbandry investigations of this Department, 

 his resignation becoming effective July 1. Dr. George E. Gage has been pro- 

 moted from associate biologist to biologist. Charles O. Appleman. Ph. D., of 

 Chicago University, has been appointed plant physiologist and chemist, and on 

 September 1 will enter upon investigations under the Adams Act. Thomas R. 

 Stanton, a 1910 graduate of the college, has been appointed assistant agronomist 

 and has entered upon his duties. 



Michigan College and Station. — The retirement is announced of Dr. W. J. 

 Beal after 40 years of continuous service as botanist. Science announces that 

 he will be succeeded by Dr. Ernst A. Bessey of the Louisiana University. 



Nebraska University and Station. — W. L. French, ad.1nuct professor of dairy 

 lHisl)Mn(lry, has been appointed assistant in dairy husbandry in the station. 



Cornell Station. — The department of plant pathology announces the estab- 

 lishment of two additional industrial fellowships, making a total of four now 

 available for investigations of plant diseases. The new fellowships have been 

 provided by commercial firms and are to be known as the Herman Frasch and 

 John Davey fellowships. The former, which is to be devoted to an investiga- 

 tion of the use of dry sulphur as a fungicide, carries an appropriation of $3,tK)0 



