698 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



positions in Columbia University and Cornell University, respectively, with; 

 opportunities for postgraduate study and research. 



Ohio University and Station. — Agricultural extension schools, continuing one 

 week each, will be held in 80 out of the 88 counties during the present year.. 

 J. H. Gourley, assistant horticulturist at the station, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of horticulture and Harry E. Evans assistant professor of animal 

 husbandry. Both will devote their time to agricultural extension work. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The enrollment in the college of agriculture is 

 now 735. A live stock and dairy demonstration train was recently sent out over 

 the Sante Fe and Frisco lines, carrying 1 car of live stock, 1 car of machinery, 

 1 car of general exhibits, and 1 flat car for demonstration and exhibition pur- 

 poses. A 5-car wheat-improvement special train has also been operated over 

 the Rock Island system. 



A school of agriculture for boys, held at the state fair during the week of 

 October 3, was attended by 150 boys. In view of the success of the work the 

 state board of agriculture has authorized the college officials to plan for holding 

 6 of these schools in different parts of the State during the coming year, to 

 which both boys and girls are to be admitted. 



A. C. Hartenbower has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy in the 

 college and assistant agronomist in the station. 



Oregon College and Station. — Recent appointments include George F. Sykes, an 

 assistant in the biological laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences at Cold Spring Harbor. Uong Island, as instructor in zoology ; William E. 

 Lawrence, of the Oklahoma College, as instructor in botany ; V. I. Saffro, of the 

 Bureau of Entomology of this Department, as assistant in entomology ; and C. C^ 

 Lamb, as foreman of the station poultry plant. 



South Carolina Station. — J. E. Toomer, of the Alabama Station, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant chemist, and has entered upon his duties. 



Tennessee Station. — F. H. Denniss, dairyman, is no longer connected with the 

 station, 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The entering class in the four-year and 

 two-year courses of the college of agriculture shows an increase of about 60' 

 per cent, and in the department of home economics the total increase is about 

 100 per cent. Six foreign countries are represented in the enrollment in the 

 college of agriculture. 



The $30,000 dairy laboratory has been completed and is being used for the 

 winter dairy course, which opened November 2. A new sheep barn, silo, and 

 manure storage shed have also been erected, a potting house and four green- 

 houses are nearing completion, and ground has been broken for the foundations 

 of a horticultural building. An allotment of $60,000 is available for the new 

 horticultural equipment. 



Orman R. Butler. Ph. D. (Cornell, 1910), has been appointed instructor iii 

 horticulture and assistant horticulturist. Doctor Butler has specialized in plant 

 physiology and will devote his entire time to research work. Roy T. Harris 

 has been appointed assistant in dairy tests, vice Llewelyn R. Davies, who has 

 accepted the professorship of agriculture in the Marinette County (Wis.) 

 School of Agriculture and Domestic Science. E. R. Jones has been granted 

 leave of absence during the second semester to study soil physics and drainage 

 in this country and abroad. The degree of doctor of science was recently con- 

 ferred by the university on Dr. F. H. King, formerly ]irofessor of agricultural 

 physics. 



Wyoming Station. — A grain barn has been completed and fitted up where seed 

 grains will be kept and displays of grains in various years will be made. 



