NOTES. 



California University and Station. — .J. I. Thompson, a 1910 graduate of the 

 Iowa College, has been appointed instructor in animal industry with head- 

 quarters at Davis, succeeding F. D. Hawk, who has been transferred to Berkeley. 

 J. S. Rose, assistant in the cereal laboratory, has resigned to accept a coninier- 

 cial position in Cuba. 



Connecticut State Station. — The reconstructed laboratory building was for- 

 mally <ii»('ned August 10 at a gathering of about 400 farmers. An address was 

 made by Director W. 11. Jordan, of the New York State Station, on The Rela- 

 tion of the Stations to Research Work, and a memorial tablet was unveiled, 

 bearing the following inscription: "In memory of Samuel William Johnson, 

 who for more than fifty years served the agriculture of this State and Nation 

 as a teacher, author, and investigator. Largely through his labors the first 

 agricultural experiment station was established in Connecticut. Director of 

 this station from ISTT to 1900." 



Delaware College and Station. — The new dairy barn, for which the last legisla- 

 ture made ;in appropriation, is nearly completed. This barn has accommoda- 

 tifus for 75 head of cattle and has many modern features of construction. 



Maryland Station. — Roy H. Waite, field assistant in biology at the Rhode 

 Island Station, has been appointed associate poultryman, vice C. L. Opperman, 

 whose resignation has been previously noted. 



Michigan College and Station. — The midsummer meeting of the State Millers' 

 Association, which is coojterating with the station in a campaign for wheat im- 

 provement, was held at the college July 14. A portion of the day was devoted 

 to an inspection of the crop-breeding plats, where work has been in progress for 

 several years in the pi-opagation of selected wheats. A milling plant has just 

 been installed at the college. 



J. Fi*ed Baker, professor of forestry in the college, has been made a member 

 of the station council, W. A. Wentworth, a recent graduate of the Iowa Col- 

 lege, has been appointed research assistant in bacteriology in connection with 

 investigations in soil bacteriology. Dr. Richard P. Lyman, a graduate of the 

 Massachusetts College and the Howard School of Veterinary Science, and for 

 several years connected with the Kansas City Veterinary College, has been 

 appointed dean of the newly organized school of veterinary science. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — R. S. Mackintosh, formerly of the Iowa 

 College, has been appointed assistant in horticulture to take up investigations 

 with peaches. 



Clemson College. — J. M. Napier, assistant in agronomy at the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy and has entered 

 upon his duties. George (J. Ainslie, assistant pi-ofessor of entomology, has 

 accepted an appointment with the Bui-eau of Entomology of this Department, 

 with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn. 



Wyoming Station. — Work has been begun upon the death camas, a poisonous 

 plant which grows in the mountain valleys throughout Wyoming and other 

 portions of the Rocky Mountain region, to determine its poisonous principles. 

 Some interesting results have been obtained, the alkaloids having already been 

 separated. 



It is planned to add one or two new men to the station staff to devote their 

 time e.xclusively to wox'k under the Adams Act. 



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