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the college; P^dwin S. (ioud, ai^si^tant in animal husbandry in the station; and 

 Rufu8 C. ()brecht, assistant in horse husbandry in both college and station. 

 Albert X. Hume, a graduate of Purdue University, succeeds Dwight 8. Dalby as 

 instructor in farm crops. Clifford Willis has been appointed assistant in soil physics 

 in both college and station, and James H. Pettit, formerly assistant in chemistry, has 

 become assistant in soil analysis in the station and in soil fertility in the college. 

 Curt A.. Schroeder and Ira O. Schaub have also been added to the chemical force of 

 the station, and James T. Barrett has become assistant in botany in the station. 



Iowa College and Station. — C. J. Zintheo, recently of the Xorth Dakota College, 

 has entered upun his iluties as jirofessor of farm mechanics in the college. This 

 work has recently been organized as a branch of the agronomy department of the 

 division of agriculture, and is intended to cover instruction in all .kinds of farm 

 machinery and appliances, including land drainage, rural telephones, farm water 

 supply, and the various means of obtaining power for operating farm machinery, 

 such as electric motors, gasoline engines, steam engines, water power, and wind 

 power. A four-story fire-i:iroof building, 60 by 100 ft., is now being erected as a 

 laboratory for conducting this work. J. J. Repp has resigned as veterinarian and 

 professor of pathology and therapeutics, and has been succeeded by Carl W. Gay. 

 M. Jacob, of Knoxville, Tenn., a graduate of the Pennsylvania Veterinary College, 

 has been elected to the chair of veterinary medicine and .sanitary science. W. H. 

 Stevenson has been advanced to the head of the department of soils and A. T. Erwin 

 has liecome associate professor of horticulture. G. I: Christie has been appointed 

 assistant in soils, and Wayne Dinsmore assistant in animal husbandry. 



Kansas College and Station. — The college has commenced the erection of a commodi- 

 ous auditorium, for which an appropriation of $40,000 was made by the last legis- 

 lature of the State. A building to be used exclusively by the dairy department is 

 also being erected at a cost of $15,000, which will contain class rooms as well as 

 cjuarters for dairy manufacturing. Oscar Erf, instructor in dairy husbandry in the 

 University of Illinois, now occupies the chair of dairying and animal husbandry, and 

 R. J. Kinzer, formerly superintendent of the Iowa College farm, has been elected 

 assistant in the animal husbandry work in the college. F. D. Coburn, William 

 Hunter, J. M. Satterthwaite, and S. J. Stewart, of the board of regents, have retired 

 and are succeeded by C. E. Friend, of Soldier; R. J. Brock of Manhattan; J. W. 

 Berry of Jewell; and J. 0. Tulloss of Sedan. 



Maine University and Station. — W. N. Spring has been appointed professor of for- 

 e.stry; Edith ]\I. Patch, of the University of Minnesota, entomologist to the station, 

 and S. C. Dinsmore, a graduate of the university, assistant chemist to the station. 

 W. D. Hurd, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, and during the past 

 summer agricultural demonstrator for the Rhode Island College, has become pro- 

 fessor of agronomy, and will have charge of the college farm. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — George A. Drew, assistant horticulturist, 

 resigned early in September to accept a position as superintendent of a large estate 

 in Greenwich, Conn. He is succeeded by George O. Greene, recently assistant 

 horticulturist at the Kansas College and Station. 



Minnesota College. — F. D. Tucker, who for several years past has occupied the 

 positi(jn of jjrincipal of the school of agriculture, has resigned to become president of 

 Memorial University, ]Mason City, Iowa. 



Missouri University and Station. — E. H. Favor has been appointed assistant in 

 horticulture at the university and station. W. L. Howard has been promoted to 

 the position of instructor in horticulture, and Robert J. Foster has been appointed 

 instructor in veterinary science. 



Montana College and Station. — F. W. Traphagen has resigned to accej)t the chair of 

 metallurgy and assaying in the State School of Mines, at Golden, Colo. 



