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Deitartnieut. The dem;iud from funuers for the antitoxin has far exceeded 

 the supply and efforts are under way to produce it in sufficient quantity. It 

 is found that only limited amounts can be obtained from immune hogs, but it 

 is hoped that other animals, possibly horses, can be utilized for the purpose. 



The station correspondence with farmers is larger than ever before. This 

 increase is ascribed to a great extent to the i)lan now being followed whereby 

 each department has charge of tlie dissemination of its results through multi- 

 graph letters and similar means. The country newspapers of the State 

 are also actively cooperating in the work, showing gi'eat willingness to publish 

 notes of interest from the college and station. 



Montana Station. — Edmund Burke, assistant chemist and meteorologist, has 

 been appointed chemist, and IJeul^en M. Pinckney, assistant in chemistry at the 

 University of Nebraslca, lias been appointed assistant chemist. 



Nebraska University and Station. — C. W. Pugsley has been appointed associate 

 professor of animal husbandry in the university and assistant in the station. 



New Jersey Stations. — George G. Claiming has resigned as field and green- 

 house assistant and Arthur J. Farley, a graduate of the Massachusetts College 

 in 1908, has been appointed assistant horticulturist. 



Cornell University. — Arrangements have been completed by the extension 

 department whereby a special agricultural train is to be sent out over the lines 

 of the Erie Railroad in the near futm-e. 



North Dakota College and Station. — According to a note in Science, F. J. 

 Seaver, assistant botanist, has been appointed director of laboratories in the 

 New York Botanical Garden. A .$10,000 brick seed house and root cellar and 

 a .$2,000 machinery shed 40 liy 112 feet have been completed, and the contract 

 has been let for a horticultural green house to cost $6,000. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — In accordance with a new State law, repre- 

 sentatives from the various country farmers' institutes recently met at the 

 college for the election of a State board of agriculture and the holding of a 

 general round-up institute. The board of agriculture, which acts as the board 

 of regents for the college and station, is now constituted as follows: J. P. Con- 

 nors (president), Canadian; J. C. Elliott (vice-president), Pauls Valley; E. 

 "White (treasurer), McLoud ; R. F. Wilson, Valliant; G. T. Bryan, Perry; D. 

 Diehl, Hobart; T. Rice, Hitchcock; R. AV. Lindsay, Choteau ; A. C. Cobb, 

 Wagoner; J. W. Corley, Howe, and F. Ikard, Chickasha. 



W. L. English resigned as director of the station August 24 and B. C. Pittuck 

 has been appointed acting director. W. T. McDonald has resigned as animal 

 husbandman in the college and station and has been succeeded by W. A. Link- 

 later, of the Washington College and Station, as previously noted. Cornelius 

 Beatty has been appointed chemist in the station, vice A. G. Ford resigned, and 

 R. O. Raird has lieen appointed assistant chemist. The department of botany 

 has l)een transferred in both the college and station from the department of 

 entomology to that of horticulture, and an additional assist.ant in horiculure, 

 L. M. Montgomery, of the Colorado College, has been appointed. 



The Cotton Conference and Cotton Grading School held at the college during 

 August was largely attended. About .300 delegates and visitors registered for 

 the first week of the conference, and about 100 farmers, merchants, bankers, 

 and cotton buyers were in attendance duiMng the two weeks of the school. 



Pennsylvania College and Institi:te of Animal Nutrition. — Frank D. Gardner, 

 of the Bureau of Soils of this Department, has accepted the professorship of 

 agronomy in the college and has entered upon his duties. In the Institute of 

 Animal Nutrition, John W. Calvin, of the Kansas College has been appointed 

 assistant, vice F. W. Christensen who has been given a year's leave of absence 



