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can profitably be fed to hogs to produce the cheapest pork on alfalfa pasture; and at 

 an early date experiments in the growing of timber for posts and for wind-breaks 

 will be started. After wind-breaks have l)een estal)lished, exi)eriments in orcharding 

 will l)e undertaken. 



Khode Island Statien. — A. G. Lander, B. S. A., a graduate of ('ornell University, has 

 been appointe<l second assistant chemist, vice A. W. Bosworth, resigned. 



South Carolina College. — J. V. Lewis, professor of geology and mineralogy and of 

 soil physics, has resigned to take effect June 8. 



Tennessee University and Station. — The station is preparing an exhibit of 50 cases for 

 the Tennessee World's Fair Commission, to be shown at St. Louis. These cases repre- 

 sent the various lines of work in progress at the station, and show in a graphic man- 

 ner the crop-producing capacity of Tennessee soils and the relative merits of the 

 several fertilizers for these crops, the character and variety of crops that can be pro- 

 duced, and the results of various feeding experiments conducted l)y the station. The 

 exhibit will constitute a central feature of the general agricultural display of the 

 State. The short courses in agriculture and dairying recently closed showed a grati- 

 fying interest in these courses. Farmers' institutes have been held in practically 

 every county in the State during the year. These institutes have been uniformly 

 successful and the attendance satisfactory. Preparations are now being made for the 

 twenty-ninth annual meeting of the East Tennessee Farmers' Convention, to be held 

 in Knoxville June 1, 2, and 3, and steps are being taken to organize a State live- 

 stock breeders' association. 



Vermont University and Station. — L. R. Jones has been given leave of al)sence until 

 Septeml)er and will spend tlu^ time in Europe studying potato diseases and in search 

 for disease-resistant varieties. 



Wisconsin University. — F. J. Wells, assistant professor of agricultural physics in the 

 college of agriculture, died March 1 after a brief illness. Professor Wells was a grad- 

 uate of Lawrence University, and for several years a teacher in the public schools of 

 the State. Believing that the agricultural field offered a good opportunity for his 

 energies he entered the college of agriculture as a graduate student, devoting his time 

 mainly to agricultural physics and chemistry. In March, 1902, he was appointed 

 instructor in agricultui-al physics and was later advanced to the position of assistant 

 professor. His sudden death was a great shock to all of his associates. Frederic 

 Cranefiekl, assistant horticulturist, has resigned to accept the secretaryship of the 

 State Horticultural Society, with headquarters at Madison. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The short course given at the university from 

 March 1 to 12, the first attempt at a short course in the State, was most gratifying in 

 the attendance and the interest evidenced. There w'ere over 150 in attendance; 131 

 registered as students, and 73 of these were ranchmen representing 8 of the 13 coun- 

 ties in the State. During the first week, which was devoted to irrigation, addresses 

 were made by Elwood IVIead of this Office, L. G. Carpenter of Colorado, John E. 

 Field of the Reclamation Service, C. T. Johnston, State engineer of Wyoming, and 

 Judge C. N. Potter of the Wyoming supreme court, besides members of the faculty. 

 The second week was devoted to live-stock judging and management, and the inter- 

 est increased up to the last day of the course. The course has attracted wide atten- 

 tion throughout the State and will probably be made an annual feature. W. E. Field 

 has been appointed head farmer, and H. C. McLallen, of the New Mexico College and 

 Station, has been appointed general assistant in the station to have charge of the 

 notes and records. 



United States Department of Agriculture. — Fourteen horses and mules used at the 

 Arlington Farm have died of cereI)ro-spinal meningitis, supposedly from eating imma- 

 ture, moldy corn. Within 8 days after the first ajipearance of the affection all the 

 animals were dead, including all those kept at the farm. 



Frederick L. Lewton, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed scientific assistant in 

 botany, in the Bureau of Plant Industry, and entered upon his duties early in April. 



