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Cornell University and Station. — Filibert Roth, at one time assistant pro- 

 fessor of forestry in the university and since 1903 head of the forest school of 

 the University of Michigan, has been appointed professor of forestry in the col- 

 lege of agriculture. He will assume charge of the deimrtment of forestry in the 

 fall of 1912. 



Some very striking results have been obtained from the new races of timothy 

 produced at the station. The average yield in 1911 of 17 new varieties was 

 7,153 lbs. per acre as compared with 4,091 lbs. from seven check plats of ordi- 

 nary timothy. The half dozen best varieties gave an average increase of 4,040 

 lbs. per acre. In 1910, the first crop season for these plants, the average increase 

 for the new sorts was only 851 lbs. per acre. 



New York State Station. — G. Talbot French, as.sistant botanist, has resigned 

 to accept a position with the Virginia State Department of Agriculture in 

 charge of seed inspection work, this taking effect February 1. 



Ohio State University and Station. — F. S. Jacoby has been appointed instructor 

 in poultry husbandry and will be in charge of the newly established poultry 

 department. Three buildings are to be erected — a general poultry house, a 

 brooder hou.se, and a structure for student class work and judging. 



At the request of the Board of Administration which, under a law enacted a 

 year ago, now has control of the eleemosynary, reformatory, and penal insti- 

 tutions of the State, the station has undertaken the general management of a 

 tract of nearly 1,700 acres lying about 15 miles southwest of Columbus, and 

 held jointly by the Institution for the Feeble Minded and the penitentiary. The 

 station will operate this as a demonstration farm, and has appointed John W. 

 Klinefelter as superintendent. Other appointments recently made for extension 

 work include A. L. Higgins and Charles N. Mooney, of the Bureau of Soils of 

 this Department, and Cary W. Montgomery as assistants in the department 

 of cooperation, and Victor Herron as assistant in the department of horticul- 

 ture. E. R, Allen, assistant in chemistry at Cornell University, has been 

 appointed soil bacteriologist, vice Thomas F. Manns, whose resignation has 

 been previously noted. 



Oklahoma Station. — John C. Reese, a 1911 graduate of the Maryland College, 

 has been apix)inted assistant chemist. 



Oregon College and Station. — A stock farm of 115 acres, just south of Cor- 

 vallis, has been purchased for use as a college stock farm and will be utilized 

 for all stock-feeding experiments and the college work in animal husbandry 

 except dairying. A prune survey covering 11 counties has been completed. 

 Spraying apparatus to the value of about $2,000 has recently been given the 

 college for the equipment of the new spraying laboratory. 



B. W. Hollis has been appointed instructor in veterinary science and has 

 entered upon his duties. 



South Carolina Station. — A tract of 200 acres of land a quarter of a mile 

 from the city of Florence has recently been purchased at a cost of $40,000, for 

 use as a substation. The land is considered especially well adapted to experi- 

 mental purposes, and the farm is expected to afford opportunities for greatly 

 enlarging the work of the station. 



Tennessee University and Station. — W. H. Mclntire, assistant experimental 

 agronomist of the Pennsylvania College and Station, has been appointed asso- 

 ciate chemist and entered uix)n his duties February 15. 



Texas College.^D. T. Griswold, instructor in animal husbandry, has accepted 

 a position as instructor in agriculture in the college of agi-iculture of the Uni- 

 versity of Porto Rico. 



Virginia College. — Dr. J. M. McBryde, a former president of the institution, 

 was awarded the McMaster medal by the University of South Carolina at the 



