514 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Nebraska University. — The new agricultural hall was dedicated January 16. The 

 principal address was delivered by Hon. W. G. Whitmore, aregentof the university, 

 on Some Problems Confronting Nebraska Farmers. 



Cornell University. — Two new short courses for women are being offered by the col- 

 lege of agriculture this winter, one in horticulture and the other in home economies. 

 About 20 women of prominence in the latter subject have been engaged to give 

 lectures and demonstrations in connection with the course, which is intended prima- 

 rily for the benefit of farmers' wives and daughters. The college is also offering a 

 correspondence course for teachers in the rural schools in home nature study, includ- 

 ing the study of birds, plants, trees, insects, and fishes. 



Pennsylvania College. — Leave of absence has been granted Dr. G. W. Atherton for 

 the winter on account of the condition of his health. Dr. Atherton has expressed to 

 the board of trustees his desire to relinquish the duties and responsibilities of the 

 presidency, and in accordance with this wish a subcommittee has been appointed to 

 consider the subject of a successor. Dr. W. A. Buckhout will act as president in the 

 interim. It is announced that Dr. Atherton will retain connection with the college 

 as lecturer in his special department. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — During the past year the small poultry buildings 

 of the station have been entirely overhauled and repaired, and freshly painted. New 

 fencing has been provided and the entire plant put in a very much improved con- 

 dition. This has been rendered possible by a State appropriation made a year ago. 

 The new instruction house and brooder house for the college, for which an appropri- 

 ation was made last w r inter, was completed in season for use by the poultry course, 

 which began January 2 and will continue for 12 weeks. 



James W. Kellogg, formerly first assistant chemist to the station, but since May, 

 1905, employed as expert in the Bureau of Soils and engaged in cooperative work at 

 Kingston, has resigned to accept a commercial position. No provision for the appoint- 

 ment of his successor has yet been made. 



South Carolina College and Station. — H. Metcalf, associate professor of botany and 

 bacteriology in the college, and botanist and bacteriologist of the station, has resigned 

 to accept a position as pathologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 

 Dr. Metcalf will be succeeded by Homer D. House, of the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 of this Department. A greenhouse which will cost $6,000 is now being built. The 

 center of this building will be assigned to the horticulturist, and an end each to the 

 botanist and entomologist of the station. 



The Southern Railway has loaned the college a modern day coach which is hauled 

 free of cost by all the railroads of the State. This coach has been equipped with 

 exhibits from the various departments and divisions of the college, and is accom- 

 panied by institute lecturers from the college, station, and elsewhere. In November, 

 December, and January thirty-two points w^ere visited and farmers' institutes held 

 in the southern half of the State, the northern half having been covered the past 

 summer. It is hoped that this feature of holding farmers' institutes in cooperation 

 with the railroad may be permanent. The coach attracted an unusual amount of 

 attention and was visited by thousands of people. 



South Dakota College.— Robert L. Slagle, president of the State School of Mines, 

 succeeded James Chalmers as president of the Agricultural College, January 1, Dr. 

 Chalmers having gone to the State University. 



Ohio University.— J. A. Foord, professor of agriculture at Delaware College, has 

 accepted the position of assistant in agronomy at the university. 



Vermont University and Station. — F. M. Hollister has resigned as assistant chemist 

 to enter the medical college of the university. The medical college building, erected 

 at a cost of $100,000, dedicated at commencement in June last, w r as occupied Decem- 

 ber 1 at the opening of the year. Experiments in horse breeding, using Morgan 

 blood as a basis, are to be undertaken in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry of this Department. A barn on a farm owned by the university is being 



