100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Maine University and Station. — Sanford C. Dinsmore, assistant chemist of the 

 station, resigned July 1 to accept a similar position at the Nevada Station, and John 

 B. Reed, for two years instructor in chemistry in the university, has been appointed 

 to succeed Mr. Dinsmore. 



Maryland Station. — E. P. Walls, assistant in agronomy, has resigned^ and will take 

 up the study of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. 



Michigan College.— U. P. Hedrick, professor of horticulture, has resigned to accept 

 the position of horticulturist at the New York State Station. Professor Hedrick 

 has been succeeded by S. W. Fletcher of Cornell University. 



Mississippi College and Station.— At the beginning of the present college year the 

 dairy department of the college and station will occupy a new barn costing about 

 $6,000. The building is T-shaped, the upright being 40 by 60 ft., 2 stories high, and 

 tin- cross 240 by 35 ft., 1 story high. The former contains on the first floor a milk 

 room and a bath room with cement floors, an office and several feed rooms with 

 wood floors. The second story is devoted to storage for grain and roughage. The 

 stable contains 100 stalls for milch cows, 6 box stalls for calves, and 6 box stalls for 

 bulls. The stable floors are of cement and the stalls of brick to a height of about 

 6 ft. The framework and walls above the brick are of wood, mostly native pine. 

 Both feed and manure will be handled by means of trolleys, the latter being carried 

 by gravity to a manure shed some distance from the barn. 



The summer school for teachers, held from June 20 to July 15, had an enrolment 

 of more than 200 teachers. The industrial courses included agriculture, horticul- 

 ture, nature study, school gardening, manual training, and drawing, and this feature 

 of the work was so popular with the teachers that they passed resolutions asking 

 that the school be held again next year. 



Nebraska University and Station. —A. Keyser has been appointed assistant in agri- 

 cultural chemistry. C. W. Melick, former instructor in dairying, has been appointed 

 instructor in dairying at the Kansas Agricultural College. Provision has been made 

 by the regents of the university for improvements costing about 830,000. These will 

 include the erection of a new barn for pig feeding experiments, the rearrangement of 

 cattle feeding barns and sheds, and the construction of a sewer. 



Nevada University and Station. — The station staff has recently completed a ten-day 

 tour through the eastern part of the State, where farmers' institutes were held at 

 various places. C. R. Fitzmaurice has resigned as assistant chemist of the station 

 and S. C. Dinsmore of the Maine Station has been appointed to take his place. N. E. 

 Wilson, vice-director and chemist of the station, has been appointed dean of the uni- 

 versity and consulting chemist to the station. S. B. Doten, station entomologist, has 

 resigned to become principal of the university high school. J. E. Stubbs, president 

 of the university and director of the station, has been given a year's leave of absence 

 in order that lie may rest and regain his health. 



New Hampshire College. — Charles Brooks, formerly assistant in botany in the 

 University of Missouri, has been appointed instructor in botany. 



New Jersey Stations. — Equipment has been provided for investigations in plant 

 nutrition in which the fertilizer requirements of soils will be studied with cereals and 

 leguminous plants. 



North Carolina College.— F. C. Eeimer, formerly assistant horticulturist and botanist 

 at the University of Florida and the Florida Station, has been made assistant horti- 

 culturist at the college. 



Oklahoma College and Station.— W. R. W right, a graduate of the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College, has been appointed assistant in bacteriology in the college and station, 

 succeeding J. F. Nicholson, who, as previously noted (E. S. P., 16, p. 1141), has 

 been made botanist and entomologist. C. E. Quinn, a graduate of the University of 

 Nebraska, has been appointed assistant in soils and crops in the college and station 

 during the leave of absence of L. A. Moorhouse. F. A. Hutto, principal of the school 



