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assistants iu horticulture; Jarues Speidell instructor in horticulture; George 

 Eeiben horticulturist of the Eastern Oregon substation at -Union ; Leslie Beaty 

 horticulturist at the Hermiston substation ; and F. D. Bailey field assistant 

 in botany and plant pathology. 



Porto Rico Station. — Winthroj) \'. Tower has resigned as entomologist to ac- 

 cept a position with the Porto Rico Board of Agriculture. 



Rhode Island Station. — E. F. Southwick, assistant in agronomy, and Miss 

 Elizabeth E. Amison, assistant biologist, have resigned. Fred J. Godin has 

 been appointed assistant floriculturist in the college and station, vice E. A. 

 Mallette, resigned to take up commercial work. 



South Carolina Station. — The appointments are announced of W. B. Aull as 

 assistant botanist and F. G. Tarbox, jr., as assistant iu agronomy. 



South Dakota Station. — Fred D. Fromme has succeeded Orlando E. White as 

 assistant in botany. 



Texas Station. — The resignations are noted of J. W. Carson as assistant to 

 the director and State feed inspector, taking effect September 1, and N. C. 

 Hamner as assistant chemist. B. Youngblood, assistant agriculturist in the 

 Oflice of Farm Management of this Department, has been appointed director 

 and entered upon his duties August 15. 



Virginia Station. — W. K. Mallory, assistant dairy husbandman, has resigned 

 to accept an appointment with the Dairy Division of this Department. 



Washington College and Station. — O. M. Morris has been appointed professor 

 of horticulture and horticulturist, vice W. S. Thoruber, whose I'esignation has 

 been previously noted. George S. Olson has been promoted from assistant 

 chemist to chemist of the station. H. P. Barss, instructor in botany in the 

 college, has been added to the station staff as assistant plant pathologist, half 

 of his time to be devoted to Adams fund projects in plant pathology. E. F. 

 Gaines has been appointed assistant cerealist iu the station. 



West Virginia University and Station. — A school of agriculture and domestic 

 science of secondary grade has been formally organized. For men there is a 

 4-year course, a short course consisting of 2 winter quarters, and a winter 

 " farmers' course " of about 2 weeks consisting of popular lectures, demonstra- 

 tions, and exercises for men over 21 yeai'S of age. The 4-year course consists 

 of 3 years of 2 quarters each (for the current year extending from September 

 18, 1911, to March 22, 1912), and 1 year of 3 quarters. During this last year 

 the work in agriculture is elective, and there is also an opportunity to take 3 

 hours each quarter of electives in other subjects. This course is planned for 

 young men v/ho expect to go back on farms, but it also contains sufficient work 

 in English, mathematics, science, and German (2 years), to admit its graduates 

 to the college of agriculture W'ith only 2 entrance conditions. 



In the short course all of the work is in agriculture and related sciences. The 

 -work of the first winter Is the same for all students, but in the second winter 

 students have the option of a group in dairying, a group in horticulture, and a 

 group in animal husbandry. 



For women there is a 3-year course in home economics, each year consisting 

 of 2 terms of 12 weeks each as in the case of the first 3 years of the agricultural 

 course. The regular academic work for women is the same as that for men, but 

 instead of required work in agriculture they take cooking, sewing, hygiene, 

 music, and home management. They may also take work in dairying, farm 

 crops, and plant propagation instead of German in the third year. 



J. H. Stewart has resigned as director, to take effect January 1, 1912, and 

 will be succeeded by E. D. Sanderson. David Carleton Neal has been appointed 

 assistant bacteriologist. 



