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University, 1910, in animal husbandry; E. F. Rineliart, Oliio State University, 

 1910, in dairying; G. A. Briclier, University of Illinois, 1910, in agricultural 

 education ; and H. E. Eswine and C. D. Steiner in agricultural extension. 



In tlie station J. S. Houser, assistant entomologist, has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence for postgraduate study at Cornell University ; Walter O. 

 Glover has been appointed assistant botanist, and George R. Eastwood assist- 

 ant in animal husbandry. E. S. Guthrie, H. C. George, L. T. Bowser, W. F. 

 Pate, H. J. Christoffer, and C. B. Evans are no longer connected with the station. 



Oregon College and Station. — Recent appointments include E. G. Peterson as 

 professor of bacteriology and bacteriologist; G. R. Sampson, of this Department, 

 as instructor in animal husbandry ; H. F. Wilson as assistant for research in 

 entomology; Dr. H. H. Severin, of the University of Wisconsin, as assistant 

 for research in botany; F. E. Rowland as instructor in chemistry; and F. R. 

 Brown and R. W. Rees as instructors in horticulture. A. L. Peck, assistant 

 professor of landscape gardening, has resigned to engage in commercial work. 



Porto Rico Sugar Producers' Station. — D. L. Van Dine, of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of this Department, has been appointed entomologist, with headquar- 

 ters at San Juan. 



Rhode Island Station. — The new poultry hospital for use in connection with 

 the study of poultry diseases is nearly completed. This hospital, with its 

 modern equipment, is believed to be the first of its kind to be ei-ected for this 

 special purpose in this country and probably in the world. 



A. L. Whiting, assistant agronomist, has accepted a fellowship in agronomy 

 at the University of Illinois. 



Utah Station. — Leon D. Batchelor, instructor in horticulture in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed horticulturist, and has entered upon his duties. 



Virginia Station. — Dr. E. A. Back, of the Bureau of Entomology of this 

 Department, has accepted an appointment as statiou entomologist and ento- 

 mologist to the state crop pest commission, and will enter upon his duties about 

 November 1. 



Washington College and Station. — A farming demonstration boat was oper- 

 ated on Puget Sound, August 10-25. The boat was chiefly equipped to demon- 

 strate improved forage crops and better methods of dairying and fruit produc- 

 tion. There was an average attendance of 155 at each of the 24 stops. 



Better farming special trains with special demonstrations of methods of dry 

 farm tillage, fruit growing, and diversified farming in eastern Washington were 

 operated over railway lines in eastern Washington early in July. Of the total 

 attendance of 9.000 at the 41 stops, at least 75 per cent were adult farmers, 

 showing that the interest in this kind of extension work in the territory which 

 was traversed is chiefly among the actual farming people. 



W. H. Hein has resigned as assistant horticulturist of the station and has 

 been succeeded by E. C. Langlois, a graduate of the Iowa College. A. B. 

 Nystrom, assistant in dairy husbandry at the Kansas College, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in dairying in the college, and entered upon his duties 

 September 15. 



West Virginia University and Station.— E. D. Sanderson has accepted the 

 position of dean of the college of agriculture and entered upon his duties Sep- 

 tember 1. In the station Charles M. Gifford, assistant in plant pathology in 

 the Vermont TTulverslty and Station, has been appointed assistant in bacteriology. 



Wyoming University and Station.— The college of agriculture has just obtained 

 from Nova Scotia a herd of 20 registered dairy cattle, including Jerseys, Cana- 

 dian Holsteins, and Ayrshires. 



The station is making preparations to take, up investigations on the life 

 history of the sheep tick. The sheep breeding experiment which has been car- 



