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professor of farm inauagement ; aud Horace F. Major, of the Illinois Uni- 

 versity, as instructor in landscape gardening with charge of the university 

 caminis and grounds. 



New Hampshire Station. — John C. Kendall, dairy husbandman of the Kansas 

 College and Station, has been appointed director, and will enter upon his duties 

 September 1. 



Cornell University. — Legislation whereby the college of agriculture will 

 receive during the current year an increase of $25,000 for maintenance aud of 

 $2,000 for extension work, together with $113,000 for a class room and audi- 

 torium building, $90,000 for a poultry building, and $154,000 for a home 

 economics building, has received the approval of Governor Hughes. A signifi- 

 cant feature of the legislation is the practical acceptance by the legislature of 

 a systematic plan of development for the college as outlined by the board of 

 trustees. This plan looks toward the growth of the institution during the 

 next ten years, and if carried out will necessitate the expenditure of nearly 

 $2,000,000 for buildings aud equipment. 



North Carolina College and Station. — P. L. Gainey, instructor in botany and 

 bacteriology and assistant bacteriologist, has resigned to accept a fellowship 

 at the Shaw School of Botany, and B. B. Higgins, instructor in biology, has 

 resigned to accept a position as assistant in Cornell University. T. B. Stausel 

 has been appointed assistant in soil bacteriology in the station, and Warren 

 C. Norton assistant in botany in the college. 



Ohio State University. — Lewis M. Montgomery has been appointed assistant 

 professor of horticulture, and Thomas 1). Philips assistant in rural economics. 



Oregon College. — The twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the 

 institution was celebrated June 10 to IS. 



Texas College and Station. — John M. Green has resigned from the board of 

 direc-tors and has been succeeded by James Cravens. H. L. McKuight has been 

 promoted from assistant agriculturist to agriculturist of the station. The 

 oflSce of vice director has been abolished. 



Wisconsin University. — The formal dedication of the new forest products 

 laboratory took place June 4, Forester Gi-aves, of this Department, President 

 C. R. Van Hise, of the university. Governor J. O. Davidson, and ex-Governor 

 W. D. Hoard participating in the exercises. The laboratory is a three-story 

 brick structure, trimmed with white sandstone, erected by the university at 

 a cost of $75,000 and equipped by this Department for a like sum. Courses in 

 wood technology and the mechanical engineering of wood manufacturing plants 

 are to be added to the university curriculum next year, the college of engi- 

 neering cooperating with the staff of the forest products laboratory in the 

 instruction. 



A New School of Agriculture in Vermont. — Announcement is made that a 

 secondary school of agriculture for Vermont boys is to be opened next September 

 in connection with Lyndon Institute, Lyndon, Vt. A two-year course in scien- 

 tific and practical agriculture will be given, designed to prepare young men 

 for successful farming under Vermont conditions. The course will extend over 

 9 months of each year and will be open to residents of the State eligible for 

 admission to any approved high school. 



A unique feature of the school is the provision of two methods by which 

 students may pay their expen.ses, a cash payment system and a work payment 

 system. Boys who choose the latter method will be required to stay at the 

 school throughout the year aud will be allowed $25 a month with board aud 

 lodging during vacation time aud 15 cents an hour for work during the school 

 year. 



