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Kansas College and Station, — D. H. Otis, in charge of animal husbandry in the 

 college and station, has resigned to become superintendent of a large farm in Labette 

 County, Kans. He entered upon his new duties about September 1. 



Maine University. — The last legislature appropriated $2,500 a year for a department 

 of forestry, and the trustees have now authorized the appointment of a professor of 

 forestry. 



Massachusetts Station. — W. E. Tottingham has been appointed assistant in the 

 ciiemical laboi-atory, department of foods and feeding. 



Michigan College and Station.— Hon. Franklin Wells, for thirty years a member of 

 the State board of agriculture, which has charge of the college and station, and for 

 nearly twenty years president of that board, died suddenly July .3, at Constantine, 

 Mich. He is succeeded by Charles F. Moore, of St. Clair. 



Missouri University and Station. — The station has established what is thought to be 

 the first jaboratory for animal l)reeding in the Fnited States. It is intended to 

 investigate some of the applications of Mendel's law to animal Ijreeding, and to 

 observe accurately the results from various methods of breeding. Observations will 

 be made on the factors which determine the birthweight of animals. This laboratory 

 is in charge of Prof. F. B. Mumford. E. B. Forbes, B. S., of the University of Illinois, 

 has been elected assistant professor of animal husbandry. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The contracts have been let for a dairy barn and 

 stock -judging pavilion and machine shops, provided for by the last legislature. The 

 cost of these two buildings will be about $20,000. The barn will be 164 ft. long, 

 the main part being SO ft. wide and the wings 40 ft. and 64 ft., respectively. It 

 will cost about 110,000 when finished. It will contain a stable for cattle, 60 by 64 ft., 

 and accommodate 50 dairy cows and about 20 or 30 young cattle. It will contain a 

 bedroom, bathroom, and closets for farm men; and will also have accommodations 

 for hay and grain storage, with several box stalls for hospital purposes and for stock 

 bulls. A live-stock judging pavilion, 40 by 60 ft., will form one wing to the barn. 

 This, together with the offices, will be heated with steam. The shop building will 

 include a farm-machinery room for instruction in the handling of ordinary farm 

 machinery, a carpenter shop for elementary work, and a blacksmith shop for forge 

 work. The main part of this building is 42 by 72 ft., two stories high, with a wing for 

 the blacksmith shop, 40 by 60 ft., one story high. The contract is also about to be let 

 for the construction of a greenhouse and horticultural laboratory for students' use, 

 the greenhouse space to be 40 by 60 ft. and the horticultural workroom about 40 ft. 

 square, the cost of this building to be about $6,000. A class of 45 teachers from dif- 

 ferent parts of the State took a course in agriculture at the summer school. The 

 chemical department of the station has been making analyses of samples of sorghum, 

 taken daily during a recent dry spell, to ascertain the relation, if any, between dry 

 weather and the presence of prussic acid, as has been claimed. 



Nevada College and Station. — J. E. Stubbs, president and director, is traveling in 

 Japan for his health, which he has not fully recovered since his recent .severe illness. 

 N. E. Wilson, chemist, has been aj)pointed vice-director of the station. S. B. Doten, 

 entomologist, has l)een making quite extensive experiments in the field in destroy- 

 ing locusts and crickets, which are proving a great plague in the eastern counties of 

 the State. 



New Hampshire Station. — Lucian A. Hill, assistant chemist, has resigned to become 

 assistant chemist in the research laboratory of the McLean Insane Asylum at 

 Waverly, Mass. H. H. Scudder, formerly of this Department, and W. E. Hayes 

 have been appointed assistant chemists in the station. W. D. Gibbs, of the Texas 

 College and Station, has been elected president of the college and director of the 

 station, and will enter upon his new duties September 1. 



