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Nebraska Station. — \\'. 1*. SiiydtT has l)een apiiointt-d asisis^taut in animal lul^<ban(lry 

 in the .station. The sulj^tation in the western portion of tlie State provided for by 

 the hist legislature ha.s been located at Xcjrth Platte, on a tract (jf 1,920 acres of land 

 lyini;; 3 mile.s south of the city. The function of the substation under the law is to 

 conduct experiments on the adaptability of the arid and semiarid portions of the 

 State to agriculture, horticulture, and forest tree growing. Tests will also be made 

 of the effect of resting pastures and of summer and winter grazing on the carrying 

 capacity of the range, about 1,500 acres of the tract acquired being rough grazing 

 land. Work will be taken up at the substation early next spring. 



New Hampshire College and Station, — J. C. Bridwell, recently connected with the 

 Division of Entomology of this Department, has become instructor in botany and 

 zoology in the college and assistant entomologist in the station. New greenhouses 

 for tlie department of horticulture are in process of construction, an appropriation of 

 $7,000 having been made by the State for this purpose. 



New Jersey Stations. — George A. Billings has succeeded C. B. Lane in the position 

 of dairy husbandman. 



Cornell University. — In connection with the reorganization of the college of agricul- 

 ture, John L. Stone has been made assistant professor of agronomy, S. W. Fletcher 

 assistant professor of extension teaching in agriculture, and James E. Rice assistant 

 professor of poultry husbandry. The latter is believed to be the first pnjfessorship 

 of poultry husbandry established in this country. 



Ohio University. — The enrollment of the college of. agriculture is 207, an increase 

 of 20 over the fall term of last year. Of these 101 are new students and 123 are in 

 the long course, 75 being in the short course, 7 special students, and 2 post graduates. 



Rhode Island Station. — B. L. Hartwell, formerly first assistant chemist of the sta- 

 tion, has been made associate chemist. 



South Dakota College and Station. — W. A. Wheeler, formerly connected with the 

 ^Minnesota College of Agriculture, has been appointed botanist in the college and sta- 

 tion to succeed D. A. Saunders, wdio has been granted indefinite leave of absence. 

 Investigations in making macaroni and curing it under different conditions have been 

 recently undertaken by the chemical department of the station. 



Texas College and Station. — F. S. Johnston has been elected stati(.>n agriculturist, 

 vice B. C". Pittuck, who, as previously noted, has gone to Louisiana; and F. R. Mar- 

 shall, recently of the Iowa College and Station, has been elected associate professor 

 of animal husbandry. J. K. Robertson has been made superintendent of the Bee- 

 ville Station, vice S. A. McHenry; and W. S. Hotchkiss, of Illinois, superintendent 

 of the Troupe Station, which for some months past has been under the direction of 

 E. C. Cxreen, of the horticultural department. H. H. Harrington has been given a 

 year's leave of absence for travel and study in Europe. R. L. Bennett, recently 

 director of the Arkansas Station, has been elected superintendent of farmers' insti- 

 tutes. The contract has been let for a dairy l^arn to cost $8,000. 



Washington College. — R. K. Beattie has l)een appointed acting professor of botany, 

 vice C. V. Piper, who, as previously noted, has accepted a position in this Department. 



Wisconsin University. — G. N. Knapp has been appointed assistant professor of agri- 

 cultural engineering in the college of agriculture, in accordance with provision made 

 for this new department by the last legislature. He is now connected wuth the 

 United States Geological Survey, but will enter upon his new duties next ]March. 



West Virginia Station. — T. C. Johnson has been appointed assistant horticulturist 

 of the station. 



Cotton Boll Weevil Convention. — A convention attended by 1,200 officials, farmers, 

 and business men, with delegates from the Southern States and from Chicago and 

 New York, was held at Dallas, November 5-6. The object of the convention was to 

 consider ways and means of averting the danger to the cotton interests from the rav- 

 ages of the cotton-})oll weevil. The Secretary of Agriculture, B. T. Galloway, A. L. 



