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fertility, Francis D. Abbott in chemistry, L. W. Summers in animal husbandry, 

 Josephine Kerr in bacteriology, and W. H. Sacks in soils. 



Purdue University and Station. — Among the estimates submitted to the legisla- 

 ture by the university are a 50 per cent increase in maintenance for the school 

 of agriculture, $100,000 for a university library, $25,000 for a horse barn, 

 $25,000 for a beef cattle barn, $25,000 for a veterinary laboratory, clinic, and 

 hospital building, $60,000 for a dairy building and equipment, $25,000 for green- 

 houses, and $15,000 for a horticultural building. 



Mary A. Fitch has been appointed scientific assistant in botany in the station. 



Kansas College. — A spring school of agriculture, home economics, and related 

 subjects for teachers, continuing from March 2S to June 14 and preceding the 

 summer school from June 15 to July 27, is announced. 



Louisiana Stations. — Dr. Harry Morris, a graduate of the veterinary depart- 

 ment of the University of Ohio, has been appointed to the position of animal 

 pathologist of the State Station to succeed Dr. Thomas C. Paulsen, recently 

 resigned. 



Maine University. — V. R. Gardner has resigned as professor of horticulture 

 and acting dean to become associate horticulturist at the Oregon College and 

 Station. Leon S. Merrill has been designated acting dean. 



Michigan College and Station. — William H. Brown, Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins) 

 has been appointed research assistant in plant physiology, with three-fourths 

 of his time to be in connection with Adams fund investigation and the remainder 

 in instruction in advanced plant physiology. 



Missouri Station. — E. S. Yanatter has been appointed assistant in soil survey 

 work beginning January 1, and T. R. Douglass assistant in agronomy beginning 

 February 1. 



Montana Station. — H. B. Bonebright, professor of farm mechanics at the 

 Colorado College, has been engaged to take charge of the agricultural engineer- 

 ing work, and entered upon his duties February 1. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — The new dairy building has now been 

 completed. It is a terra cotta, tile, and cement fireproof structure, with a main 

 portion two stories in height with about 55 ft. frontage and 48 ft. in depth, 

 flanked by two one-story wings 37 by Hi ft. On the ground floor is a large 

 demonstration room for dairy machinery and a laboratory equipped for dairy 

 chemistry work, with the college creamery in the rear. The second story is 

 occupied by offices, class rooms, and a reading room. 



New Mexico College and Station. — R. E. Willard, formerly of the Bureau of 

 Soils of this Department, has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy in 

 charge of soil work. F. W. Christensen, assistant in animal nutrition at the 

 Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition, has arrived to take charge of 

 chemical work of extensive nutrition digestion experiments in cooperation with 

 the department of animal husbandry. W. A. Lassell has succeeded Louis lies 

 as dairyman. 



Cornell University and Station. — The enrollment in the college of agriculture 

 has now reached 1,254, an increase of more than 34 per cent over last year. 

 The trustees have decided to charge tuition to students in the college of agri- 

 culture who are not residents or citizens of the State. It is announced in the 

 daily press that 16 students in the short winter courses were college graduates. 



A department of forestry has been established with Walter Mulford, junior 

 professor of forestry of the University of Michigan, as its head. Professor 

 Mulford takes up his regular work at Cornell at the beginning of the next 

 college year, but has been giving about a month to its organization during the 

 present winter. 



