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assistant in agricultural chemistry, A. H. Wright as assistant in agronomy, 

 and D. C. Mooring as assistant in horticulture and botany. 



Rhode Island Station. — J. Frank Morgan has resigned as assistant chemist to 

 pursue further studies in chemistry at the ITniversity of Michigan. W. F. 

 Kirkpatrick, field assistant in biology, has resigned to assume charge of the 

 poultry department at the Mississippi College and Station, vice J. P. Kerr. 



Utah Station. — Another demonstration farm has been established near Cedar 

 Fort Station in Cedar Valley. 



Texas College. — Claude N. Evans has been given charge of the corre.spondence 

 courses in agriculture. J. L. Thomas, instructor in dairying, has resigned to 

 accept a position as field agent in the Southwest for the Dairy Division of this 

 Department. 



Virginia Truck Station. — L. E. Johnson, of Roanoke, has succeeded J. C. Car- 

 riugton as a member of the governing board. F. A. Johnston, of the Bureau of 

 Entomology of this Department, has been assigned to work with this station, 

 vice E. G. Smyth, who has been transferred to other work in the Bureau. L. L. 

 Corbett has been appointed assistant in truck crops. A spray laboratory and 

 tool house and a cottage residence have recently been added to the station 

 buildings. 



West Virginia University. — Thomas Edward Hodges, formerly professor of 

 physics, has been elected president to succeed D. B. Purinton upon his retire- 

 ment next year. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The college of agriculture this year cen- 

 tralized its exhibits at the state fair into a single building where 7,000 feet of 

 wall space and an equal amount of floor space were available. It was estimated 

 that 40.000 people viewed the exhibit during the week. 



A nearly doubled attendance over last year is reported for the various demon- 

 stration meetings arranged at the several county and state farms. L. F. 

 Graber, a 1910 graduate of the college of agriculture, has been appointed assist- 

 ant in agronomy with special reference to the extension work. 



F. B. Hadley, of the Ohio State University, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of veterinary science and in charge of veterinary science work in the 

 station. 



Wyoming Station. — The contract for the building of a new barn for the agron- 

 omy fai-m has been completed. A killing frost occurred August 24. and as a 

 result most of the grains from the station will not be fit for seed. The frost 

 killed potatoes, alfalfa and sweet clover, and in fact, all succulent crops. 



Office of Experiment Stations. — F. W. Howe, who has been engaged in the 

 educational work of this Office during the past 20 months, has resigned to 

 accept a position with the New York State Department of Education as state 

 supervisor of agricultural education. His headquarters will be at Albany, and 

 he will have charge of the introduction of agriculture into the public high 

 schools of the State under the new law appropriating state aid to the amount 

 of $500 for the first teacher of agriculture employed by any high school in the 

 State, and $200 for each subsequent teacher of this subject in the sjinie school. 

 The provisions of this law extend also to the introduction of home economics 

 and manual training into the high schools. 



Enlargement of Facilities at Rothamsted. — A society has been organized under 

 the presidency of the Duke of Devonshire for the purpose of raising .$2r>,000 for 

 the purchase of about 2(K) acres of land ad.ioining the present experimental fields 

 at Kothanistetl and erecting buildings for feeding experiments with cro])s to i)e 

 grown there. It is aunouncefl that about $7,000 has already been snliscrilxHl. 



Consolidation of Institutions for Agricultural and Veterinary Instruction in 

 Argentina.— A consular report from South America announces the incorporation 



