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Ohio Station.— Ross Sherwood, a graduate of the Iowa College, has been 

 appointed assistant in animal husbandry in charge of poultry investigations. 



Pennsylvania College.— B. O. Severson (University of Wisconsin, 1910) has 

 accepted an instructorship in animal husbandry. 



Vermont University.— Dr. Matthew Henry Buckham, president of the univer- 

 sity since 1S71, died November 29, after a brief illness. 



President Buckham was born in England July 4, 1832, coming to this country 

 two years later. He was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1851, 

 receiving the highest honors in his class. 



Aside from two years as the principal of Lenox Academy in Massachusetts 

 and a like period of study in Europe, the succeeding 59 years of his life were 

 spent in the service of the university, first as tutor in languages, later as 

 professor of Greek, for a time as professor of rhetoric and English literature, 

 and for nearly 40 years as president. During his administration the university 

 buildings increased in number from 6 to 25, the faculty from 14 to 80, and the 

 students reached a total of over 500. 



In addition to his work as an administrator and educator. President Buck- 

 ham's services were much in demand as an orator on formal occasions of a 

 public nature. Among the more noteworthy of these addresses was the graceful 

 and discriminating eulogy before the Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations at its meeting in 1899, following the death 

 of the late Senator Justin S. Morrill, with whose life and work he was very 

 closely in touch. In the association itself President Buckham was for years 

 a prominent figure, serving as president in 1906 and on the committee on 

 graduate study since its establishment. 



His long life was marked by many houors and the occupancy of a wide range 

 of positions of trust. Both Dartmouth and Hamilton colleges conferred upon 

 him the degree of D. D. in 1877, and Middlebury. Dartmouth, and Wesleyan 

 had each given him the degree of LL. D. 



Wisconsin University. — Fire damaged the new greenhouses of the horticultural 

 department November 21, causing a loss of about $2,000, and seriously delaying 

 the use of the added facilities they were to provide. 



Members of the faculties and graduate students of several colleges of the 

 university have formed a breeders' club. A country life club has also been 

 organized in the college of agriculture. The Student Farmer, the undergradu- 

 ate agricultural publication, has been reorganized as the Wisconsin Country 

 Magazine. It is expected to secure considerable practical training for the 

 students in agricultural .iournalism in connection with the new form of 

 publication. 



American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers. — The fifteenth annual 

 meeting of this association was held in Washington. D. C. November 14-lG. 

 There were 115 delegates registered, representing 37 States, the District of 

 Columbia, and 3 of the Provinces of Canada. 



Statistical reports as to the status of farmers' institutes, presented from 32 

 States and Territories of the United States and from 5 of the Canadian Prov- 

 inces, showed a greatly increased attendance for the year. The total number 

 of sessions of regular institutes held was 20.950, and the attendance at these 

 sessions was 2,296.517. an average of 109.5 per session. 



The president of the association. G. A. Putnam of Toronto, summarized in 

 his address the work of the farmers' institutes as having three general pur- 

 poses: (1) Increasing production; (2) securing a better home and community 

 life in the rural districts, and (3) lessening the wide margin that now exists 

 between the prices received by the producer and those paid by the consumer. 

 He stated that investigations show the farmer's share of the consumer's dollar 



