400 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



laboratories, lecture rooms, a model apartment, dining rooms, an auditorium 

 seating. 500, etc. 



The board of control for tlie station provided by the last legislature was 

 named by the governor July 8 as follows: G. E. Jobe, Cedarville; Horatio 

 Marliley, Mt. Gilead; M. L. Ruetenik, South Brooklyn; Charles Flumerfelt, 

 Old Fort ; and George B. Scott, Mt. Pleasant. An act was also passed, author- 

 izing the board of control to purchase lands suitable for the growth of forest 

 trees at a price not exceeding ten dollars per acre and to manage such lands as 

 state forests. An appropration of $10,0(X» was made for beginning this work. 

 Other appropriations to the station included $180,780 for salaries and hibor 

 and $91,763.20 for maintenance. The fiscal year of the State has been changed 

 from February 16 to July 1. 



Oregon College and Station. — Requirements for admission to all degree courses 

 at the college have been advanced from 12 to 15 units of high school credits, 

 beginning with the next academic year. Provision for the admission of other 

 students deemed sufficiently mature to select their life work and prepared to 

 take advantage of the opportunities for college instruction is made through 

 the vocational courses. The school of commerce announces additional courses 

 in the literature and exposition of farm life, economics of distribution, and 

 markets and marketing. 



The following research assistants severed their connection with the station 

 July 1: F. R. Bi-own, horticultural by-products; A. F. Vass, bacteriology; and 

 Leroy Childs and G. F. Moznette, entomology. H. S. Jackson, head of the 

 department of botany and plant pathology, has been appointed head of the 

 botanical department of the Purdue Station to take effect September 1, vice 

 Dr. J. C. Arthur who retires as a beneficiary under the Carnegie Foundation 

 for the Advancement of Teaching. 



Texas College and Station. — J. H. Foster, professor of forestry at the New 

 Hampshire College, has been appointed state forester, professor of forestry, 

 and forester to the station beginning September 1. 



Virginia College. — T. J. ilurray has been appointed associate professor of 

 bacteriology and plant pathology. 



West Virginia University and Station. — Dr. John L. Coulter, of the George 

 Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville, Tenn., has been appointed dean of 

 the college of agriculture and director of the station, beginning September 1. 

 Other appointments, effective August 1, include Jonathan Yoke as instructor in 

 animal husbandi-y, vice R. R. Snapp, resigned; Arthur C. Ragsdale, instructor 

 in dairy husbandry, vice George L. Thompson, resigned; and Aubrey J. Swift 

 as instructor in animal husbandry in the college and assistant in animal 

 husbandry in the station. 



Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. — The thirty-second annual con- 

 vention of this association is to be held at Washington, D. C, November 15-17. 

 The arrangement of the program has been altered from that of recent years, 

 the first day being given over to the reports of the referees on water, feeds 

 and feeding stuffs, sugar, separation of nitrogenous substances, dairy products, 

 and food adulteration. The second day is to be devoted largely to committee 

 reports and the address of the president, and the third day to reports from the 

 remaining committees and referees, including the sections of fertilizers and 

 medicinal plants and drugs. 



