ANNOUNCEMENTS. XV 



Hon. Rutillus Alden who was a Trustee member of the 

 Station Council for the years 1888- 1894 and who represented 

 the Maine State Dairymen's Association on the Council since 

 1902 died at his home in Winthrop, November 13, 1914. With 

 his long service, his very active interest in agriculture, his gen- 

 uine sympathy with and keen appreciation of the value of s(!i- 

 ence as applied to agricultural problems his death is a great loss 

 to the Station as well as to the agriculture of the State as a 

 whole. At its annual meeting in December 1914 Mr. Frank 

 S. Adams of Bowdoinham was elected by the State Dairymen's 

 Association a member of the Council in Mr. Alden's stead. 



CHANGES IN STATION STAFF. 



July I, Mr. Clarence W. Barber resigned from the Station 

 Staff but is still connected with the University as Farm Demon- 

 strator for Cumberland County. 



July I, Mr. Harold Gulliver resigned as Scientific Aid at 

 Highmoor Farm. 



July I, Mr. Harold P. Vannah resigned his position of Assist- 

 ant Chemist to take a commercial position. 



September i, Mr. Frank Tenney resigned as poultryman. 



April I, Mr. Guy A- Baker of Presque Isle was appointed 

 Superintendent of Aroostook Farm. 



July 15, Jacob Zinn, D. Agr., (Hochschule fur Bodenkultur, 

 Vienna, Austria 1914) and August i, Mr. John W. Gowen, 

 B. S. (University of Maine 1914) were appointed Assistant 

 Biologists. 



September i, Mr. Hoyt D. Lucas, B. S. (Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College 1914) was appointed Assistant Chemist. 



Buildings and Equipment. 



A new eight room house costing about $3500 was erected on 

 Aroostook Farm during the summer of 1914. 



The small farm house of little value at Aroostook Farm 

 burned in July, 1914. 



Repairs at the cost of about $250 were made on the barn and 

 potato storage at Aroostook Farm. Large platform scales were 

 placed in the barn and farm machiner}' and implements to the 

 value of about $3000 were installed. The house and barn were 

 wired for electric lighting, and electric power for threshing, etc., 

 was introduced into the barn. 



