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New Hampshire College and Station. — Tlic inanjjrnratioii of Pre^^ideiU \V. 1). Gibbs 

 ami the formal dedication of tTie new agricnltural building occurred October 28. 

 Tlie dedicatory address wan delivered by Dr. A. C. True, of this Office. E. L. Shaw, 

 formerly assistant in agriculture at the Missouri Station, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of animal husbandry in the college, and F. W. Taylor, of the Bureau 

 of Soils, professor of agronomy. Percy A. Campbell has been appointed superin- 

 tendent of the college farm. Herbert H. Lamson, bacteriologist, has resigned to 

 become professor of natural science in the State Normal School at Plymouth. 



New Mexico College and Station. — R. F. Hare, formerly assistant professor of chem- 

 istry, has been clrcted professor of chemistry in the college and chemist to the 

 station. The 22-horsepower oil-burning engine recently installed for pumping water 

 for irrigation has proved quite satisfactory. The preliminary runs showed a cost of 

 30 cts. for irrigating an acre 3 in. deep, using crude oil at 5| cts. per gallon, as com- 

 pared with 70 cts. per acre with wood and $1.30 with coal, the same pump being 

 used in each case. Contrary to the prevalent belief that Irish potatoes could not be 

 grown in this locality, several varieties in a test this season produced quite well. 



New York State Station. — Victor H. Lowe, until recently entomologi.*t to the station, 

 died August 27, at Fort Collins, Colo., where he had gone in the hope of recover- 

 ing his health. In his death the station loses a very successful and enthusiastic 

 worker, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of scientific investigation, and alive to the 

 importance of economic entomology in agricultural and horticultural practice. His 

 work was marked by thoroughness and its practical nature, and he was one of the 

 most popular of the New York State Institute speakers. Mr. Lowe was a graduate 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College in the class of '91, and was appointed to a posi- 

 tion in entomology in the New York State Station in 1893, rising to the head of the 

 department in a few years. His chief investigations at the station were on the 

 army worm, case bearers, nursery stock pests, plant lice, cottonwood-leaf beetle on 

 willows, raspberry sawfiy, tent caterpillars, the cankerworm, and San Jose scale; 

 while considerable study was given to the matter of spraying with crude petroleum, 

 with kerosene, and with lime, sulphur and salt mixture, and to the devising of a 

 convenient box fumigator for small orchard trees. Mr. Lowe is succeeded at the 

 station by P. J. Parrott, of the Ohio Station, formerly an assistant at the Geneva 

 Station. Martin J. Prucha, formerly assistant to H. W. Conn, of AVesleyan Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant bacteriologist, and E. B. Hart has been pro- 

 moted to the position of associate chemist. The construction of a horse barn has 

 just been commenced, and the contracts let for fire protection. The latter inc-lude a 

 chemical engine, a 15,000-gal. tank on a 100-ft. tower, hydrants, and 1,000 ft. of hose, 

 with 15 carts. 



North Carolina College.— The following appointments in the chemical department 

 of the college are noted from Science: William G. Morrison, M. A. (Virginia), 

 instructor in chemistry; Robert W. Page, B. S. (Columbia), instructor of analytic 

 chemistry and metallurgy; Albert A. Haskell, B. S. (Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology), instructor in dyeing; O. M. Gardner, B. S. (North Carolina College), 

 instructor in chemistry. 



Ohio College and Station. — Friend Whittlesey, of the Iward of control, died Septem- 

 ber 13. F. A. Derthick, master of the State Grange, has been appointed to succeed 

 him. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — E. II. Riley, a graduate of the Minnesota School of 

 Agriculture and of the University of ^Ininesota, has been appointed assistant in 

 animal husbandry in the college and station, succeeding R. C. Obrecht. 



Rhode Island Station.— J. W. Hutchins, of the Michigan Agricultural College, has 

 been appointed agricultural demonstrator to succeed W. D. Hurd, who, as mentioned 

 above, has gone to the Maine College and Station. This officer, provided for by 

 State appropriation, has proved a most satisfactory experiment. The demonstra- 



