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Alabama College axd Station. — B. B. Ross, professor of chemistry in the college 

 and State and station chemist, has been granted a year's leave of absence, which he 

 will spend in study in Europe. During his absence J. T. Anderson, associate chemist 

 of the station, will be acting State and station chemist, and Paul Murrill, recently of 

 the University of Michigan, will be acting professor of chemistry in the college. 

 C. F. Austin, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, and formerly con- 

 nected with the Montana Station, has been appointed assistant horticulturist of the 

 station. A residence is being erected for the assistant agriculturist. 



Arizona Station. — David Griffiths, Ph.D., has been appointed botanist of the 

 station. He is to make a specialty of range study and improvement, in which work 

 the Arizona Station is cooperating with the Division of Agrostology of this Depart- 

 ment. Three hundred and twenty acres of worn-out range near Tucson is now 

 under fence and is to serve as a main reserve for this study. 



California Station. — C. A. Colemore has been appointed clerk to the director, 

 i-ice A. V. Stubenrauch, resigned. The post-office address of the Southern California 

 Substation has been changed from Pomona to Ontario, and the station now has the 

 advantage of the rural delivery system. Some important changes are under way at 

 the substation near Paso Robles. For the past ten years a large number of deciduous 

 fruit trees have been tested upon land underlaid at a few feet by a very thick bed of 

 siliceous hardpan. This orchard is being removed, and the result of the tests will 

 shortly appear in a Ijulletin. Several Phagodia and two new Atriplexes from South 

 America have been successfully grown at the substation and their culture is to be 

 tested on a larger scale. Five successive dry seasons in the Paso Robles region have 

 emphasized the need of drought-resisting forage plants, and 9 species of perennial 

 grasses, out of some 60 tested in recent years, are considered worthy of more exten- 

 sive planting. A dairy herd of 17 cows has been placed at the service of the central 

 station, and feeding exiieriments will be conducted with sugar-beet pulp, and later 

 comparative experiments will be made with cocoanut and other oil-cake meals. 



Colorado College and Station. — F. L. Watrous, who has been assistant in agri- 

 culture for a number of years, has resigned, to take effect January 1, 1901. Clarence 

 J. Griffith, former instructor in dairying at the Iowa Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed to the same position in this college. 



Georgia Station. — The efforts of this station to encourage the general adoption of 

 the plan of harvesting the corn crop by cutting down the entire stalk and shocking, 

 and afterwards shredding the dried stover, are meeting with very gratifying success. 

 It is probable that in the course of a few years farmers in the South will generally 

 adopt the plan so long pursued in the North and West, thereby adding several million 

 tons of good forage to the food resources of this section. 



Iowa College and Station. — John Craig has resigned his position as horticulturist 

 to take charge of university extension work in New York. John A. Craig has been 

 made assistant director in addition to his duties as professor of animal husbandry. 



Kansas College and Station. — E. R. Nichols, who was acting president of the col- 

 lege for the year ended June 30, 1900, has been elected president. The year just con- 

 cluded has been one of the most successful in the history of the institution. The 



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