NOTES. 



Colorado College and Station.— J. D. Stannard, assistant in the deixirtnient of 

 civil engineering, has severed his connection -with the institution to accept a position 

 in the irrigation investigations condm-ted l)y this Office. J. A. Stump has heen 

 appointed his successor, and the duties assigned to him will be principally in connec- 

 tion with the college. B. C. Buffum, formerly professor of agriculture and horti- 

 culture at the Wyoming Experiment Station, has been elected professor of agricul- 

 ture and agriculturist of the experiment station. He will begin his duties Septeml^er 

 1. Miss Virginia Corbett, of the Montana Agricultural College, has been elected 

 professor of English literature, to succeed Miss Jennie E. McLain. C. S. Crandall, 

 who has been botanist and horticulturist of the station since 1890, resigned that posi- 

 tion July 1 to enter the service of the Division of Forestry of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. Mr. J. H. Cowen, a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural C^ollege 

 and for several years botanist and horticulturist, was appointed to succeed him. 

 Mr. Cowen's sudden death at Ithaca, N. Y., is just announced. The station has 

 begun the publication of press Indletins, which will be distributed to papers in the 

 State and to a limited number of individuals. The mailing list of the station is being 

 revised so as to give more attention to the needs of individuals and exchanges. Field 

 ■- work was carried on during the summer in irrigation and other related questions; also 

 investigations on injurious insects and the adaptability of grains to high altitudes. 



Nebraska Station.— W. D. Hunter resigned his position as assistant entomologist 

 July 1 to accept a similar position with the experiment station at Ames, Iowa. 



New Mexico College and Station.— W. M. Reed has been appointed engineer 

 of the station and professor of civil and irrigation engineering in the college. Fabian 

 Garcia, formerly assistant in the department of agriculture and horticulture, has 

 been made horticulturist of the station and assistant professor of horticulture in the 

 college. R. F. Hare, first assistant chemist of the station and instructor in the col- 

 lege, has been promoted to the assistant professorship of chemistry in the college. 

 J. J. A'ernon has been recently appointed agriculturist. A small herd of well- 

 selected cattle has been purchased, and in the future animal husbandry will be made 

 an important part of the work of the college and station. T. D. A. Cockerell has 

 resigned his professorship in the college to accept the chair of biology in the New 

 Mexico Normal University at Las Vegas. His services are retained as consulting 

 entomologist of the station. E. O. Wooten, botanist of the station, will henceforth 

 have charge of all the biological work of the college. The agricultural course in the 

 college has been greatly strengthened, and it is thought in the future will he one of 

 the best proportioned and strongest courses offered in the agricultural colleges of the 

 lomitry. In addition to his duties as soil physicist and meteorologist, J. D. Tinsley 

 will superintend the Roswell Substation, where drainage problems will have special 

 importance. 



Tennessee College and Station.— The designs for the new dairy hall, mention 

 of which was made in E. S. R. 11, p. 800, have been enlarged so that with its equip- 

 ment it will cost something more than $10,000. On the plats of the station favoraljle 

 results have been secured with Canadian field peas and with rape. The experiments 

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