NOTHS, 



Connecticut State Station. — E. Monroe Bailey has been appointed assistant chemist. 



Florida College and Station. — F. S. Stringer and F. M. Simonton have succeeded 

 J. D. Callaway and L. Harrison on the governing board. F. C. Reimer has suc- 

 ceeded Miss Lucia McCulloch as assistant in botany; and W. E. Worthington has 

 been appointed assistant in field and feeding experiments, and R. H. Lichtenthaeler 

 second assistant chemist. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — Jared G. Smith, director, lias returned to Washington for 

 a few M'eeks for conference on the work of the station. 



Hawaii Sugar Station. — An additional laboratory Imilding has been erected and 

 equipped for analytical work on sugarhouse products. Firman Thompson, formerly 

 of the Queensland Sugar Exi^eriment Station, and A. E. Jordan have been added to 

 the station staff as assistant chemists. 



Idaho College and Station. — H. T. Condon has resigned as clerk of the station, and 

 is succeeded by W. G. Harrison. It has been decided to add an agronomist to the 

 station staff, to take up work in plant l)reeding and soil physics; and a bacteriolog- 

 ical laboratory will soon be established in connection with the department of botany. 

 A number of Shorthorn cattle will be purchased in the East to increase the present 

 herd, the last legislature having made an appropriation of $3,000 for this purpose. 



Illinois College. — The enrollment for the fall term includes a total of 290 students 

 in the agric-ultural courses, an increase of more than 75 over last fall. The majority 

 come better prepared this year and a larger number will take the four-year course. 

 The graduating class this year will be as large, if not larger, than the entire number 

 of agricultural students rive years ago. 



Iowa College and Station. — Thomas S. Hunt has been appointed assistant in field 

 experiments to succeed Alfred Atkinson who resigned some months since to take up 

 editorial work. Howard R. Watkins is now assistant in agricultural chemistry in 

 the college. The new live-stock and grain-judging pavilion is nearing completion. 

 The building is octagonal in form, 65 ft. in diameter, 2 stories high, and built of 

 pressed brick, with steel girders and slate roof. The lower floor will be used for 

 animal husbandry work, and the upper floor connected with the agronomy rooms 

 of the experiment station barn and used for corn and grain judging and demonstra- 

 tion. The cost of this building when completed will be about S15,000. 



Kentucky Station.— E. P. Taylor, assistant agriculturist and botanist, has resigned. 



Minnesota College and Station. — John Thompson, assistant in agriculture at the col- 

 lege and station, has resigned to take up editorial work on a farm paper at Des 

 Moines, Iowa. F. J. Wojta, assistant in agriculture at the college, has also resigned. 



Montana College and Station.— Y. K. Chesnut, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, this 

 Department, has been selected to succeed F. W. Traphagen as chemist to the college 

 and station, and will enter upon his work there in January or February; and W. .1. 

 Elliott, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College, who has spent some time in 

 Minnesota in connection "with the dairy industry, has been appointed assistant in 

 the dairy work of the college and station. 



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