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Alabama College and Station. — J. F. Duggar has been elected director of the station. 

 The chemical work of the station has been divided; hereafter Prof. B. B. Ross will 

 have charge of the analysis of fertilizers and feeding stuffs and Dr. J. T. Anderson, 

 now promoted to the position of chemist, will have charge of the analysis of soils and 

 crops. J. C. Phelps, assistant chemist, has resigned to engage in teaching agricul- 

 ture and chemistry in the district agricultural school at Evergreen, Ala-- 



Arkansas Station. — W. G. Yincenheller has been elected director to succeed R. L. 

 Bennett, resigned. The substation at Newport has been closed and the property 

 there will l)e disposed of. 



California Station. — The last legislature appropriated $5,000 to the station as a defi- 

 ciency fund for the publication of delayed bulletins and reports, and $6,000 annually 

 for two years for university printing, a portion of which will be available for pub- 

 lications of the station. Henry J. Quayle of Illinois has been appointed assistant 

 in entomology, and George Roberts, formerly of the Kentucky Station, assistant 

 chemist in charge of the fertilizer control. M. E. Jaffa, who has been on a year's 

 leave of absence, has returned. Professor Jaffa spent a portion of the time with 

 Prof. W. O. Atwater at INIiddletown, Conn., studying methods of food investigation, 

 and about four months traveling in pAirope studying agricultural institutions of 

 various kinds. 



Connecticut College and Station. — W. K. Simonds, former vice-president of the board 

 of trustees, is dead. 



Delaware College. — W. H. Bishop, professor of agriculture and biology, has resigned 

 to engage in dairy farming and stock breeding at Scarsdale, N. Y. He is succeeded 

 by James A. Foord, formerly of Cornell University and Station. 



Georgia Station.— The station is overhauling its waterworks system, putting in a 

 new pump and gasoline engine, and constructing a 20,000-gallon reservoir to be filled 

 with spring water. The pump will l)e used as a means for irrigating small areas 

 near by. 



Hawaii Station. — The legislature of Hawaii has appropriated for the biennial period 

 ending June 30, 1905, $111,650 for the board of agriculture, horticulture, and 

 forestry. This includes $16,800 for the federal experiment station as follows: Main- 

 tenance $10,000, salary of chemist $2,000, laboratory and office building $3,000, resi- 

 dence for chemist $1,500, stenographer $600, and farmers' institutes $300. 



Indiana Station. — The station cattle barn was struck by lightning and entirely 

 destroyed on July 10, the loss, including contents, being over $4,800, with insurance 

 amounting to $2,500. No stock was lost. The building will be replaced l)y a tem- 

 porary strut'ture co.'ting between $1,500 and $2,000, with the intention of erecting 

 next year a more substantial barn at a cost of about $15,000. 



Iowa College and Station. — Rev. A. B. Storms of Des Moines has been elected presi- 

 dent of the college and will take up his duties with the beginning of the new college 

 year. G. E. Stayner has Vjeen appointed assistant in agronomy at the station. 



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