EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Cornell University.— The traveling summer school of agriculture has been post- 

 poned, the requisite number of students not having complied with the requirements. 



North Carolina College and Station.— C. W. Burkett has resigned his position as 

 professor of agriculture in the college and agriculturist in the station, and will have 

 charge of short agricultural courses at Ohio State University. 



< . B. Williams, who lias been connected for a number of years with field-crop 

 work of the test farms under the State department of agriculture, has been added to 

 the station staff. Provision has been made for an additional worker in plant breed- 

 ing ami forage crops, for a tobacco specialist, and an assistant in plant diseases who 

 w ill give his entire time to the investigation of this subject. 



Franklin Sherman, jr., formerly entomologist in the State department of agricul- 

 ture and the experiment station, who has been connected with the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College during the past year, has returned, and R. S. Woglum, who has 

 been acting entomologist in his absence, will be retained as his assistant. R. H. 

 Harper and < >. L. Bagley, assistant chemists, have resigned, totakeeffect September 1, 

 and YV. A. Syme, a former graduate of the college, has been appointed in this position. 



Ohio Station.— Because of the increasing administrative work of the station, the 

 office of assistant director has been established, and L. H. Goddard, experimentalist, 

 has been appointed to that position. W. F. Pate, formerly assistant chemist in the 

 University of Illinois, and L. L. La Shell have been appointed assistant chemists, 

 and ('. U. Kyle assistant agronomist. 



Oklahoma Station. — John Fields has resigned the directorship of the station, to take 

 effect ( October 1. This step has been in contemplation for several months, and is to 

 enable him to give attention to private interests. 



Oregon College and Station. — Mrs. Clara H. Waldo, of Macleay, has succeeded 

 William E. Yates as a member of the board, and Austin T. Buxton, of Hillsboro, has 

 succeeded B. G. Leedy. C. I. Lewis has been appointed horticulturist in the station. 



South Dakota Station. — Frank A. Norton, assistant chemist, has resigned and has 

 become associated with a laboratory for canning at Aspinwall, Pa. 



Utah College and Station. — Funds have been set aside for the completion of the unfin- 

 ished wing of the cattle barns and for the erection of an additional greenhouse. 

 R. W. Clark, professor of animal husbandry, has resigned to accept a position with 

 the .Montana College and Station, and J. T. Caine, a graduate of the college, ha* been 

 appointed in his place. J. W. Bolte, poultry manager, has accepted a position at the 

 Rhode Island Station. J. A. Crockett, instructor in dairying, has also resigned to 

 engage in private business. E. D. Ball, entomologist, has been granted leave of 

 absence for one year to pursue his studies. 



Vermont University and Station. — The corner stone of Morrill Hall, the new agri- 

 cultural building, was laid June 26. W. J. Morse, assistant professor of botany, has 

 been appointed vegetable pathologist to the Maine Station and will enter upon his 

 duties July 1. 



Virginia College and Station. — D. O. Xourse, agronomist, retired at the close of the 

 present college year, after many years of service, to engage in private business. 



Washington College. — A four-year course in veterinary science has been established, 

 hading to a bachelor's degree. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — James Milward has been appointed assistant in 

 horticulture, to take effect July 1. Leslie H. Adams, for many years farm superin- 

 tendent at the college and station, has severed his connection with the institution. 



According to a note in Science, plans for an agronomy building and an agricultural 

 engineering building have been completed, and contracts for their erection are now 

 being made. These contracts will provide for their completion before the beginning 

 of the short course in agriculture next winter. 



Wyoming Station.— R. E. Hyslop, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a 

 postgraduate of the University of Missouri, has been appointed agronomist and will 

 begin work Julv 1. 



