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Hawaii Sugar Planters' Station. — C. F. Eckart has resigned as director to 

 engage in commercial work and is succeeded by H. P. Agee, wlio for the past 

 two years has been the station agriculturist. 



Idaho University and Station. — J. S. Jones, professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry and chemist, has been granted a year's leave of absence to accept a fellow- 

 ship in the college of agriculture at Cornell University. 



Illinois University. — Data recently compiled show that of .''t06 former students 

 who replied to inquiries about their present occupations, 502 are either farming, 

 teaching, or following some other work associated with agriculture. The farm- 

 ers number 349, teachers and investigators 104, and veterinary surgeons and 

 others in work related to agriculture 49, while only 1 per cent have drifted 

 mto work unrelated to the farm. 



"Work has begun on the new stock judging pavilion. 



Iowa College and Station. — A total of 302 degrees were conferred at the 

 recent commencement, of which 177 were in the division of agriculture. The 

 total enrollment of students in that division, exclusive of short courses, reached 

 nearly 1,400 during the year, an increase of over 100 per cent in three years. 



E. N. Wentworth has resigned as associate professor of animal husbandry 

 to accept an appointment with the Breeder's Gazette, vice E. T. Robbins, who 

 becomes farm adviser of Tazewell County, 111. W. H. Stevenson, chief in 

 agronomy, has also been appointed vice director of the station. 



Kansas College and Station. — The extension department is offering a cor- 

 respondence course in concrete construction. 



Breeder's Gazette announces that Dr. J. B. Gingery, assistant in veterinary 

 medicine, has resigned to become assistant professor of veterinary medicine 

 in the college of agriculture. University of Missouri. 



Kentucky Station. — The new addition to the station building was dedicated 

 June 3. The principal address was made by Dean Davenport of the Illinois 

 University and Station. The exercises were in part commemorative of the 

 life and work of former Director Scovell, a portrait of whom was presented 

 to the university upon the occasion. 



Missouri University. — Farm advisers under a cooperative agreement between 

 the coujity concerned, the college of agriculture, and this Department, have 

 now been selected for eight counties as follows: Cape Girardeau, C. M. Mc- 

 Williams; Buchanan, F. W. Faurot; Johnson, C. M. Long; Audrain, E. W. 

 Rusk; Dade, E. H. R6dekohr ; Pettis, S. M. Jordan; Jackson, E. A. Ikenberry; 

 and Marion, H. H. Laude. 



Montana College and Station. — Alfred Atkinson has resigned as professor of 

 agronomy and agronomist to engage in commercial work. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The new plant industry building was 

 dedicated June 10, the address being delivered by Dr. John M. Coulter, of 

 the University of Chicago, upon the subject of Practical Science. In connec- 

 tion with the exercises the honorary degree of doctor of agriculture was con- 

 ferred upon Dean A. F. Woods of the University of Minnesota, and Dean 

 H. J. Webber of the University of California. 



The agricultural high school at Curtis, which is under the supervision of 

 the university, is opening in September a four-year agricultural school of 

 secondary grade. C. V. Williams has been appointed superintendent, Ellis 

 Rail, now assistant animal husbandman in the university and station, as 

 professor of agriculture, and E. R. Gross as professor of manual training and 

 farm mechanics. The equipment includes a farm of 450 acres of land. 



George C. White, adjunct professor of dairy husbandry, has been appointed 

 assistant in dairying in the station. 



