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ernor to investigate the nature and causes of tlie eelworm in potatoes, for 

 v/hich an appropriation of $500 was granted. Control of tlie EIljo County dry 

 farm was talven from the station and vested in a commission to be appointed 

 by the governor. 



A temporary building was erected on the campus for use during commence- 

 ment week for the exhibition of the station stocl^, many of which were prize 

 winners at tlie California State Fair in 1910. 



Hosea E. Iteid, of Reno, and James W. O'Brien, of Sparks, have succeeded 

 John Sunderland, jr., and J. J. Sullivan as members of the board of control. 

 Frank L. I'eterson has been added to the station statf as assistant in irrigation, 

 beginning April 1. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — The legislature at its recent session 

 appropriated $7,000 for establishing a department of forestry at the college, 

 $5,000 for a new horse barn for the college and station, $3,000 for live stock, 

 $5,000 for extension work, and $1,500 for the publishing of information bulletins. 

 This is the first time that special appropriations have been made by the State 

 for extension work and publications to supplement the work of the station. 

 The director of the station has been given supervision of the extension work. 



New Jersey College Station. — E. W. Stafford, a graduate of the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, has been appointed assistant in entomology. 



Ohio Station.- — The board of control, acting conjointly with the boards of 

 county commissioners, has located county experiment farms in Belmont, Paul- 

 ding, and Miami Counties under the Wilber law of 1910. The bonds voted for 

 this purpose amount to $20,000 each in Belmont and Paulding Counties, and 

 $22,000 in Miami County. 



J. Warren Smith, section director of the weather service, has been appointed 

 honorary climatologist of the station. George N. Coffey, of the Bureau of Soils 

 of this Department, has accepted the position of assistant in the department of 

 cooperation and will be engaged in a field study of the soils of the State. 



South Dakota College and Station. — A. N. Hume, assistant chief in crop pro- 

 duction in the Illinois University and Station, has been appointeil agronomist, 

 beginning July 1. 



Washington College and Station. — The legislature, which has recently ad- 

 journed, appropriated for the ensuing biennium $485,000 for maintenance, 

 $20,000 for farmers' institutes, and $30,000 for the Puyallup substation. A law 

 was also passed providing a tax of 0.325 mill on the assessed valuation of the 

 State for the support of the college and station for the years 1913 to 191S, in- 

 clusive. It is estimated that this tax will provide a revenue of $320,000 per 

 year at the beginning of the period, and that this will probably be increased by 

 $25,000 per year by the rise in the assessed valuation of the State. The fund 

 is to be used for both maintenance and permanent improvements. 



A. B. Nystrom, instructor in dairying in the college, has been made assistant 

 professor of dairying in the college and dairy husbandman of the station. E. L. 

 Peterson has resigned as assistant soil physicist of the station to engage in 

 teaching in Minnesota, and has been succeeded by Henry F. Holtz, a 1911 grad- 

 uate of the college. George Severance, until January 1, 1910, head of the agri- 

 cultural department of the college and since that time engaged in commercial 

 work, has been appointed superintendent of the Puyallup substation, vice W. H. 

 Lawrence, whose resignation has been previously noted. L. J. Chapin, a 1911 

 graduate of the college, has accepted the position of agronomist at the substation. 



Office of Experiment Stations. — C. H. Lane, formerly of the Tennessee Uni- 

 A-ersity and subsequently editor of Southern Farm Advocate, and B. B. Hare, of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, have been appointed assistants in agri- 

 cultural education. The latter will also be in charge of the department oi 



