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a year foi- four ye;ii-s and in'oviiles for a senior and .junior fellow. C. X. Jensen, 

 formerly an assistant in tlie department and at present research fellow in the 

 University of California, has been apiiointed senior fellow, and F. M. Blodi^ett, 

 a 1910 graduate of the oollese of aicriculture. junior fellow. The second fellow- 

 shi]) supplies $T.jO annually, and is for the investigation of heart rots of trees. 

 W. H. lianken, a lUlO graduate of Wabash College, has been appointed to this 

 fellowship. 



Ohio University and Station. — The recent legislature appropriated $50,000 for 

 work in agricultural extension. A considerable portion of this amount will be 

 spent in holding one-week extension schools throughout the State. During the 

 jiast year 34 such schools were held, and it is hoped to double this number dur- 

 ing the coming year. 



At the station, contracts have been let for the erection of a soil laboratory, 

 23 by 30 feet in size, one and one-half stories liigh and of stone and slate con- 

 struction, and also for a one and one-half stt)ry brick power house, 34 by 39 

 feet. A dwelling near the main building has been purchased and will be used 

 for office purposes until funds can be secured for the erection of additional 

 office and laboratory buildings. 



E. S. Guthrie has been appointed chief of tlie new department of dairy hus- 

 bandry, and J. W. Hammond lias been appointed assistant in the department of 

 animal husbandry, with special charge of the wool investigations recently au- 

 thorized. E. G. Arzberger has been appointed assistant botanist, and George G. 

 Boltz. a 1910 graduate of the university, assistant chemist. Thomas F. Manns 

 has been transferrt-d from the deiiartnient of botany to that of soils, and will 

 conduct investigations in soil bacteriology. 



Clemson College. — The legislature has authorized the establishment of two 

 additional scholarships. An appropriation of $1,500 was also authorized for 

 the State Corn Breeders' Association, under the direction of the president of 

 the association, the commissioner of agriculture, the superintendent of school 

 extension, and the professor of agriculture of the college, provided that $4,000 

 additional is raised liy the association. 



Oregon College and Station. — H. S. .Jackson, research assistant in plant pa- 

 thology in the station, has been appointed professor of botany and i)lant 

 liathology in the college. W. E. Lawrence, assistant in horticulture and botany 

 at the Oklahoma College, has been appointed instructor in horticulture. 



West Virginia TJniversity.— Press reports announce that President D. B. 

 Pnrinton has tendered his resignation, to take effect in June, 1911. 



Wyoming University and Station. — J. D. Towar, professor of agriculture and 

 director of the station, resigned July 1 to return to Michigan, where he will 

 engage in fai'ming, and has been succeeded by the chemist, II. G. Knight. 



Sugar Planters' Experiment Station in Porto Rico. — An experiment station is 

 being organized under the auspices of the Association of Sugar and Sugar Cane 

 Producers of Porto Rico. This association was formed in San Juan, February 

 25, 1909. and is financed by a tax of 25 cents on each ton of sugar refined or 

 two and a half cents for each ton of cane produced. One of its standing com- 

 mittees is the agricultural committee, which has for one of its duties the estab- 

 lishment of model farms, experiment stations, and a technical sugar school. 



J. T. Crawley, formerly director of the Cuban Station, has been selected as 

 director of the experiment station, and will enter upon his duties in August. 

 It is planned to secure in the near future a chemist, a plant pathologist, an 

 entomologist, and a field expert. A suitable location for the station is being 

 sought. D. W. May. special agent in charge of the Porto Rico Federal Station, 

 has been appointed an honorary member of the agricultural committee and is 

 acting in an advisory capacity in the establishment of the station. 



