96 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Tbo division of patbolo.i:y aiid pli.vsiolo.ii.v has recently extended the scope of its 

 work, and is investigatini; a serions disease of the forests of windward Maui. 

 L. D. Larsen, a recent graduate of the Massachusetts College, has been appointed 

 assistant pathologist in connection with this work and has entered upon his 

 duties. W. R. Potter has been appointed illustrator, vice W. E. Chambers, who 

 has accepted a similar ap])oiiitment with this Department. 



Purdue TJniversity and Station. — The school of agriculture and the station 

 are planning a nianinuitb cxbiblt at the State fair, where a s))ecial building has 

 been recently remodeled and equipped for the purpose by the State board of 

 agriculture. Results of exjieriments will be presented by collections of grains 

 and fruits, photograi>lis, charts, and in similar ways. A special exhibit of stock 

 feeds and fertilizers will be made and demonstrations in making and applying 

 spraying mixtures, judging stock, and seed selection will be given daily. In 

 the dairy division milk testing and separating, cream ripening, and butter mak- 

 ing will be carried on throughout the week, and exhibits of butter, cheese, and 

 dairy equipment will be open for inspection. Experts to answer questions and 

 explain the work in detail will be available for each of the exhibits. 



Carleton Cutlei'. of the Vermont Station, has been appointed assistant chemist. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — Ernst A. Bessey, pathologist in charge 

 of the Subtropical LaI)oratory and (iardens of this Department, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of botany in the university. In the Sugar Station H. P. Agee 

 has been appointed assistant director to succeed R. E. Bloiaiu, who has accepted 

 the directorship of an experiment station in Argentina. Dr. Fritz Zerban has 

 resigned as chemist to become director of the Sugar Experiment Station at 

 Lima, Peru. R. E. Graham has been appointed assistant chemist. George 

 Tiebout has accepted the jiosition of assistant horticulturist of the stations and 

 will be located at Roseland. 



Massachusetts College. — The main section of tlie new college barn, erected in 

 1007 to replace a similar structure destroyed by fire, was burned to the ground 

 on August 15, together with 3.3 head of live stock, about .$4,000 worth of farm 

 machinery, and $4,500 worth of hay. The cattle stable and dairy wing, sepa- 

 rated from the main barn by a cement. wall, escaped serious injury, as did al.so 

 the cement silos. The total loss is estimated at about $27,000. The cause of the 

 fire has not been determined. 



W. P. B. Lockwood has been appointed assistant professor of dairying. 



Michigan College and Station. — As a part of the extensive reorganization of 

 the agricultural work, divisions of animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, soils and 

 farm crops have been established, with H. W. Norton, A. C. Anderson, J. A. 

 Jeffery, and the director in charge respectively of these divisions. H. J. 

 Eustace, expert in fruit storage in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this De- 

 partment, has been apjiointed professor of horticulture in the college and horti- 

 culturist in the station. Other recent appointments include the following 

 assistants: M. A. Yothers, entomology: F. A. Spragg, farm crops; C. B. Colling- 

 wood, chemistry, and Misses Z. Northrop and L. M. Smith, bacteriology. 



Mississippi College and Station. — Dr. ,J. C. Roberts, veterinarian, and Glenn 

 W. Herrick, entomologist, have resigned, their resignations becoming effective 

 Septemlier 15. 



Missouri University and Station. — C. Stuart Gager, of the New York Botanical 

 Gardens, has been appointed professor of botany in the university and botanist 

 in the station. L. Haseman, assistant entomologist, and C. W. Rine, assistant 

 animal husbandman, have resigned, the former to take up graduate work at 

 Cornell University and the latter to engage in commercial work. 



The station veterinarian is meeting with remai-kable success in the inocula- 

 tion of liogs against cholera, the work being done in conjunction with this 



