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Connecticut State Station. — Dr. E. M. East, who has been in charge of the 

 work in iilant brooding, has accepted an assistant iirofessorship in Harvard 

 University, where his time will be exclusively occupied in research in plant 

 In-ooding. His resignation lakes effect September 1. 



Idaho University and Station. — E. E. Elliott, dean of the college of agricul- 

 ture, lias Iiecn apiioiiited director of the station. 



Maryland Station. — C. W. Melick has resigned as dairy husbandman to accept 

 a i)osition as bacteriologist with a dairy concern in Onialia. Xebr., his resigna- 

 tion becoming effective Septeuiber 1. A. L. Stabler, a 1909 graduate of the 

 college, has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry in connection with 

 the investigations with hogs and sheep. 



New Mexico College and Station. — .7. H. Squires, Ph. D., who has been engaged 

 in graduate work at Cornell University for the past two years, has been 

 appointed associate professor of agriculture, and will enter upon his duties at 

 once. He will also be connected with the station. 



Cornell University and Station. — Dean Bailey lias been given leave of absence 

 for the ensuing academic year, during which time Dr. H. J. Webber will serve 

 as acting dean and director. G. W. Cavanaugh, H. H. Whetzel. E. O. Pippin. 

 G. F. Warren, W. A. Stocking, jr., and G. N. Lauman have been promoted from 

 assistant professorships to professorships. Other recent appointments include 

 as assistant professors. G. W. Herrick. recently of the Texas College and 

 Station, in economic entomology, C. R. Crosby in entomological investigations, 

 A. W. Gilbert, Ph. D. (Cornell, 1909K and H. H. Love in plant breeding investi- 

 gations, Donald Reddick in plant pathology, ,J. G. Needham in limnology and 

 general biology. H. E. Ross in dairy industry, and H. W. Riley in farm me- 

 chanics; as instructor, K. C. Livermore in farm crops; and as assistants. F. S. 

 Harris in soil technology, Robert Matheson in entomology. W. S. Lyon in poul- 

 try investigations, A. T. Moir in poultry husbandry, and L. B. Cook in dairy 

 industry. 



A series of farm barns and greenhouses is being erected. 



Office of Experiment Stations. — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D., assistant chemist of the 

 INIaiyland Station, has accepted a position on the editorial staff of Experiment 

 Slot ion Reeord. to have charge of the work in agricultural chemistry. He will 

 enter upon his new duties about September 1. J. M. Stedman. entomologist of 

 the Missouri University and Station, has been appointed assistant farmers' 

 institute specialist beginning May 21. F. AV. Howe, instructor in agriculture 

 at the Michigan College and of long experience as teacher and principal of 

 public schools in Michigan, has been appointed assistant in agricultui'al educa- 

 tion, and has entered upon his duties. 



The Automobile in Agriculture. — It is announced in La Moto-CUiltnre, a new 

 monthly journal devoted to the agricultural motor and its applications, that 

 the First International Congress of the Agricultural Automobile and the Ap- 

 plication of Mechanical Motors in Agriculture will be held at Amiens, France, 

 July 22 and 2.3, 1909, in connection with the Second International Exposition of 

 the Agricultural Automobile and the Agricultural Motor. The address of the 

 general secretary is 166 Boulevard de ^lagenta. Paris. 

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