NOTHS 



Colorado Station. — J. E. Payne, lield agent, has resigned. 



Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. — E. G. Clarke has been appointed agriculturist. 



Pnrdue University and Station. — At a meeting of the board of trustees of the univer- 

 sity, held June 7, 1904, resolutions involving a change in the organization of the 

 experiment station were adopted. The work, equipment, staff, income, and expen.ses 

 of the State chemist were placed under the control of the experiment station and 

 become a part of its organization. The farm, except such areas as are now or may 

 hereafter be set aside for permanent experimental purposes, is to be under the care 

 of the university to maintain and administer. The permanent experimental fields 

 and l)uilding.s are to be occupied and used by the station without rent, and the pro- 

 ceeds of the same will he appropriated to the u.se of the station. The station is to 

 bear all costs of lalior ami materials used in experimental work, and it is understood 

 that in its work the statiim is to receive the aid and cooperation of the viniversity in 

 every possible way. 



Maine University. — J. E. Burbank, instructor in physics, has resigned to accept a 

 position ill the Magnetic Survey, at Washington. L. E. Woodman, formerly assistant 

 in physics at Dartmouth, has been elected to till the vacancy. 



Maryland College and Station. — C. F. Austin, associate horticulturist in the college 

 and station for the past two years, resigned to accept the position of horticulturist at 

 the Central Cul>a Station. 



Massachusetts College. — The recent legislature increased the permanent appropria- 

 tion of the college by -SI 0,000 annually. The provision for a horticultural building 

 was withdrawn. 



Minnesota Station. — L. B. Bassett has been appointed farm foreman. 



Montana College and Station. — John Maxey, of Bozenian, has been appointed a 

 member of the governing board, vice John M. Robinson, whose term expired. The 

 latter succeeds Joseph Kountz, whose term expired. S. Fortier, professor of civil 

 engineering in the college, and director and irrigation engineer of the station, who 

 for the past year has been absent on leave and in charge of work under the irrigation 

 division of tlie Office of Experiment Stations in California, has resigned to continue 

 work with the Department and the University of California. F. B. Lintield, agri- 

 culturist and for the past year acting director, has been made director of the station. 

 J. S. Baker, a graduate of the Utah Agricultural College, for the past year profe.ssor 

 of civil engineering in the Montana College, has been elected to the position of irri- 

 gation engineer of the station, vice S. Fortier. Alfred Atkinson, a graduate of the 

 Iowa Agricultural College, has been elected to the position of assistant in agronomy. 

 Herbert Reese, a graduate of the Montana Agricultural College, has been made 

 assistant i-heinist. •* 



Oklahoma College and Station. — F. O. Foster, assistant in dairying at the college and 

 in agriculture at the stati(.)n, has resigned to engage in commercial dairying in Balti- 

 more. A dairy building to cost 1^4,000 and a greenhouse to cost $.3,000 arc now 

 under constnu'tion. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — A. E. Stene, assistant horticulturist at the college 

 and station, has been transferred to the demonstration and extension department of 

 the college. He will be succeeded in the regular college and station work by Maurice 

 Blake, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



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