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professorship of agricultural chemistry in the Oklahoma College, and H. E. 

 McNatt as extension assistant in the dairy department. 



The university has organized an extension division which is to include the 

 extension activities of the college of agriculture. 



New Jersey State Station. — Victor B. Hausknecht, a graduate of Pennsylvania 

 College, has been appointed assistant chemist, vice Leon A. Cougdon, resigned. 



North Carolina College and Station. — John Michels, professor of animal hus- 

 bandry and dairying and dairy husbandman, has resigned to engage in com- 

 mercial work. 



North Dakota College. — A special train recently sent out over the Northern 

 Pacific lines is believed to represent the varied activities of farm life with 

 unusual completeness. The exhibits and demonstrations included domestic 

 science, farm machinery, dairying, live stock, grain growing, horticulture, 

 l)oultry, and a farm library exhibit. 



Ohio Station. — Contracts have been let for the construction of an abattoir and 

 cold storage plant foi* use in the nutrition investigations, to cost about $20,000. 

 I'aul Work has b6en appointed assistant hoi-ticulturist, in charge of vegetable 

 gardening, and Harry J. Christoffer assistant botanist. 



Oregon College and Station. — Science announces the resignations of E. F. 

 Pernot as professor of bacteriology and bacteriologist to enter commercial 

 work, and of J. C. Bridwell. instructor in zoology and entomology and assist- 

 ant entomologist, to accept a similar position at the University of California. 

 G. W. Peavy has been appointed professor of forestry, vice E. R. Lake, who has 

 been granted leave of absence. J. F. Morel has been appointed instructor in 

 veterinary science. 



Porto Rico Station. — Under the auspices of the Insular Department of Educa- 

 tion the station staff has been conducting a 6-week course of lectures at the 

 University of Porto Rico, beginning July 5. Among the subjects taken up were 

 arboriculture and forestry, apiculture, school gardening, insect pests and di.s- 

 ■eases of Porto Rican plants, troi)ical crops, school hygiene, drainage and bac- 

 terial disea.ses, and animal production. 



Rhode Island Station. — Cooperative experiments with alfalfa are being carried 

 on this season on about 50 farms. There has been found to be hardly an in- 

 stance where liming has not been highly beneficial, and in some cases alfalfa 

 could not be grown at all unless lime was used. Thus far, as a rule, slaked 

 lime has been more efficient than ground limestone or ground magnesium lime- 

 stone, though there are a few instances where the results have been otherwise. 

 The slaked lime, ground limestone, and ground magnesium limestone were used 

 in such quantities in all cases as to neutralize the same amounts of acid. 



South Dakota College and Station. — The dairy barn has Iteen nearly conii)leted, 

 at a cost of about .$10,000. It is planned to use a portion of the building for 

 class rooms and experimental laboratories. 



The school of agriculture has completed its second year with an increased at- 

 tendance, and seems to meet with much favor from the people of the State. 

 Recent appointments in the college include Dr. G. L. Brown as dean, W. H. 

 Irvine and W. D. Bailey, graduates respectively of the Ontario and Massachu- 

 setts colleges, as assistants in dairying, and W. L. Burlison, formerly of the 

 Oklahoma College and Station, C. M. Woodworth, Howard Loomis of Albion 

 College, and Howard Biggar of the South Dakota College, as assistants in 

 agronomy. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Dr. C. W. Stoddart, assistant professor of 

 soils and assistant soil physicist, has accepted the professorship of agricultural 

 chemistry in the Pennsylvania State College. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture. — Dr. C. Hart Merriam has resigned as chief 

 of the Bureau of Biological Survey and has been succeeded by H. W. Henshaw, 



