1124 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Cornell University and Station. — T. L. Lyon, of the Nebraska University and Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed agronomist in the station. W. A. Stocking, jr., for several 

 years past connected with the Connecticut College and Storrs Station, has been 

 elected assistant professor of dairy bacteriology in the college of agriculture. 



The next winter dairy course at the university will open Thursday, December 6, 

 and close Wednesday, February 27, 1907. This is about four weeks earlier than the 

 course has been started heretofore. The change is made possible by the new dairy 

 building and increased number of instructors for next year, which will permit both 

 the long and short courses to be in progress at the same time. Nine-tenths of last 

 year's class expressed themselves in favor of the earlier date. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — At a recent meeting of the board of regents, A. T. 

 Kruse, of Geary, Okla., appointed to succeed H. G. Beard, resigned, was elected 

 treasurer of the board. E. H. Riley was relieved of station work to give all of his 

 time to the school of agriculture and domestic economy. Roy C. Potts, a graduate 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College, was appointed assistant in dairying in the col- 

 lege and station, vice C. H. Tourgee. 



Texas College and Station. — John A. Craig resigned his position as dean and direc- 

 tor July 1, and will give his attention to stock raising. 



Vermont University and Station. — N. J. Giddings, a graduate in the agricultural 

 department of the class of 1906, has been elected assistant botanist in the station to 

 succeed W.-J. Morse, who, as previously noted, resigned to accept a position at the 

 Maine Station. H. A. Edson, a graduate of the chemical department of the class of 

 1906, assumes some of Professor Morse's college duties, and incidentally does some 

 work for the station along botanical lines. 



Virginia Station. — A large experimental orchard of dwarf apple trees on Doucin 

 stocks was planted the past spring to determine the value of dwarf trees for commer- 

 cial work. This orchard contains representatives of all the leading commercial vari- 

 eties. This is the first orchard of its kind in the South, and the outcome is awaited 

 with interest. The value of dwarf trees in relation to the horticultural operations of 

 pruning, spraying, and harvesting is obvious, but questions of yield and hardiness in 

 this climate are unsettled. 



Extensive cooperative investigations relative to tobacco have been arranged for 

 between the Bureau of Soils of this Department and the station. B. G. Anderson 

 and W. L. Owen, graduates of the college of agriculture, have been appointed as the 

 station's representatives to take charge of the cooperative work in the dark-tobacco 

 belt at West Appomattox and in the light-tobacco belt at Chatham. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture. — Dr. C. F. Langworthy, who has long been asso- 

 ciated with the nutrition investigations assigned to this Office, formerly directed by 

 Prof. W. O. Atwater, has been given general charge of this work, under the super- 

 vision of the director of the Office. 



Dr. Ulysses G. Houck has been selected to have immediate charge of the new meat 

 inspection work in the Bureau of Animal Industry. Dr. Houck was formerly a 

 traveling inspector in the field. He will hereafter be located in Washington. 



Dr. R. P. Stecldom, chief of the Inspection Division of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, will have immediate charge of the work on tick eradication provided for 

 in the new appropriation act, and of the field work on the eradication of scabies in 

 sheep and cattle. 



Dr. Charles A. Browne, jr., recently chemist at the Louisiana Sugar Station at New 

 Orleans, has been appointed chief of the sugar laboratory in the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 this Department. He entered upon his duties early in July. 



A. J. Pieters, in charge of the seed and plant introduction in the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of this Department, has announced his intention of resigning from the 

 Department service in the early fall to engage in private business. 



