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lUinois "University and Station. — Plans are completed for the erection of a 

 special genetics building of somewhat temporary construction. It wUl be a one 

 story brick structure. 40 by 100 feet and will provide, besides tMee offices, 

 class rooms and laboratory accommodations for 50 students at a time iu under- 

 graduate instruction and also separate laboratories for graduate and experiment 

 station work. 



Donald Mcintosh, professor of veteriuary science since 1886, died at Portland, 

 Me.. September 5. 



Maryland CoUege and Station. — ^A. C. Stanton has been appointed instructor 

 in the manufacture of dairy products tu the college and assistant in dairy 

 investigations iu the station, beginning September 1. 



Nebraska University and Station. — P. B. Barker has resigned as professor of 

 instructional agronomy and associate agronomist to become associate professor 

 of farm crops in the extension service of the University of Missouri, beginning 

 September 1. 



North Dakota College and Station. — The board of regents provided by the 

 recent legislature to take charge of all the higher educational institutions in 

 the State, including the station and the substations, has been appointed by the 

 governor with the consent of the senate as follows: L. F. Crawford president, 

 J. A. Power. Frank White, J. D. Taylor, and Emil Scow. The new board 

 assumed control July 1. 



Oregon College. — ^A system of farm surveys to determine factors contributing 

 to success or failure in Oregon farming is beiug conducted by H. F. Keyes under 

 a cooperative arrangement between the extension division of the college and 

 the Office of Farm Management of the Y. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Texas College and Station. — The increasing popular interest in the station is 

 indicated by the material iucreases in appropriations during the past few 

 years. Sis years ago there was no state appropriation for the main station 

 and but |:5,000 per annum with which to operate two substations. For the next 

 two years the appropriation was $2-5.000 to operate ten substations. Four years 

 ago it was increased to ?55.000 per annum: two years ago to $ST.500: and 

 the present legislature granted $140.5S2.50 for the first year and §13-5.000 for the 

 second year of the biennium. This appropriation has been approved by the 

 governor without curtailment. Steps have also been taken for the erection of a 

 station building, to be paid for from the feed-control-service revenue. 



Other appropriations include a stock-judging building to cost $-10.000 : $2,000 

 to remodel the dairy bam for horses and beef cattle : $1,500 each for a sheep 

 and hog bam : $21,000 for the purchase of live stock and the maintenance of 

 the animal husbandry department: and $12,000 for a new dairy barn. A sub- 

 station is to.be established in west Texas for studies iu goat breeding. 



Bailey O. Bethell. D. T. M. (Ohio State University, 1915), has been appointed 

 instructor in veterinary science, beginning July 1. 



Wyoming Station. — Considerable new laboratory equipment has been installed 

 in the various departments, especially those of engineering chemistry, 

 agronomy, and wool investigations. P. T. Meyers has been appointed assistant 

 agronomist, beginning September 1. 



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