1204 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



New York State Station. — Director W. H. Jordan has been granted a four months' 

 leave of absence, the first half of which he will spend in the West. E. B. Hart, 

 associate chemist, has resigned to accept the position of professor of agricultural 

 chemistry in the University of Wisconsin, and chemist of the experiment station. 

 Increased appropriations for the next fiscal year have permitted the following pro- 

 motions and additions to the station staff: W. J. Schoene, assistant entomologist; 

 James Wilson, of the Oklahoma Agricultural College, assistant bacteriologist; Richard 

 Wellington, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, assistant horticulturist; and 

 G. T. French, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, assistant botanist. 



Ohio Station. — Edmund Secrest, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College and 

 recently connected with the Forest Service of this Department, has been appointed 

 assistant in forestry at the station. 



Oklahoma Station. — W. L. English, a graduate of the Oklahoma Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College, for some time assistant in animal husbandry in the college and 

 station, and at present engaged in farming in Pottawatomie County, Okla., has been 

 appointed director of the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, and will 

 assume the duties of the position September 1, 1906. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — Dr. Cooper Curtice has resigned to take up work 

 in the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department in connection with the eradi- 

 cation of the Texas fever tick. J. G. Halpin, instructor in poultry husbandry in the 

 college, has resigned to accept a similar position in the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege. J. W. Bolte, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College and poultryman 

 of the Utah College and Station, has been appointed assistant professor of animal 

 industry and will have charge of poultry instruction. He will also be connected 

 with the experiment station. Prof. F. C. Black, of the Indiana Normal University 

 and College of Applied Science, has been appointed to the chair of highway engi- 

 neering and will begin his new duties in September. 



Tennessee Station.— S. E. Barnes, dairyman of the station, has been engaged by 

 the dairy division of the Bureau of Animal Industry to do field work in Tennessee 

 in the interests of dairying, in which work he will cooperate with the station. The 

 vacancy has been filled by the appointment of J. N. Price. L. R. Neel has been 

 appointed assistant in plat work, vice J. E. Converse, resigned to become manager of 

 a farm in the vicinity of Knoxville. 



Utah Station. — James Dryden, formerly connected with the station and more 

 recently poultryman of the Montana Station and at present with the Cyphers Incu- 

 bator Company, of Buffalo, X. Y., has been appointed poultryman, vice J. W. 

 Bolte, resigned. C. Larsen, assistant in dairying at the Iowa College and Station, 

 has been appointed dairyman to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. A. 

 Crockett, who will engage in private business. 



Virginia College and Station. — Prof. R. J. Davidson, dean of the scientific depart- 

 ment and chemist of the station, has severed his relations with the station in order 

 to devote his entire time to the scientific department. The vacancy on the station 

 staff has been filled by the appointment of Dr. W. B. Ellett, assistant chemist of the 

 station. It is planned to reorganize the department with a first assistant and one or 

 two laboratory assistants and to undertake new lines of investigation made possible 

 by the Adams Act. W. L. Owen, recently appointed to take charge of the coopera- 

 tive investigations in light tobacco at Chatham, Va., has resigned to accept a posi- 

 tion in bacteriology in the Georgia Station. The vacancy has been filled by the 

 appointment of R. P. Cocke. The State farmer's institute recently held at Roanoke 

 was attended by 1,200 farmers, of whom 1,050 visited the college and station on a 

 special train provided for their accommodation. 



Bequest to the University of California. — The estate of the late M. Theodore Kearney, 



near Fresno, comprising about 5,000 acres of land, valued at nearly §1,000,000 and 



ling an annual income of about §50,000, has been bequeathed to the University 



