NOTES 



Arkansas University and Station. — G. A. Cole lias resigned as professor of 

 agricultural education and superintendent of farmers' institutes to become 

 principal of the State Agricultural School at Russellville. The farmers' insti- 

 tutes in the future are to be in the immediate charge of the dean of the college. 

 W. Lenton, professor of veterinary science and veterinarian, is no longer con- 

 nected with the institution. 



The first of a series of agricultural trains is to be run over the Frisco 

 Railroad in December. It is planned to make half-day stops rather than hour 

 stops as formerly. 



California Station. — F. M. Playes, of the Kansas Station, has accepted a 

 position as assistant veterinarian. 



Colorado Station. — G. P. "Weldon has resigned as field agent at Grand Junc- 

 tion to become deputy state entomologist at Fort Collins. 



Delaware College and Station Dr. M. T. Cook has resigned as plant patholo- 

 gist to become professor of plant pathology in Rutgers College and plant pathol- 

 ogist in the New Jersey College Station. Dr. Raymond C. Reed has accepted the 

 position of professor of veterinary science in the college and veterinarian in 

 the station. 



Florida University and Station. — ^A total appropriation of $165,000 was made 

 to the university for the ensuing biennium, of which $30,000 was for a new 

 building for the college of agriculture and $15,000 for farmers' institute work. 

 Dr. E. W. Berger resigned as station entomologist July 1 to become state 

 inspector of nursery stock, and has been succeeded by J. R. Watson, of the 

 department of biology of the University of New Mexico. W. Voorhees has suc- 

 ceeded Mrs. Berger as librarian. Owen F. Burger has been appointed assistant 

 plant pathologist. J. B. Grifiith, of Southerland College, and F. M. O'Byrne, of 

 Miami University, have been appointed laboratory asistants in plant pathology 

 and plant physiology, resiiectively. 



Idaho University. — H. A. Wadsworth has been appointed assistant professor 

 of foresti*j' in the school of forestry. 



Illinois University and Station. — Courses have been added in farm account- 

 ing, the economic history of agriculture, and poultry husbandry. A wing 120 

 by 20 feet of the proposed poultry house has been erected, and 20 acres set 

 aside for the use of the new department. D. O. Barto, formerly instructor in 

 agriculture for secondary schools, has been appointed associate professor of 

 poultry husbandry, and will have charge of the iwultry work. 



Recent appointments in the department of dairy husbandry include W. Tru- 

 man Crandall, a graduate of the University of Missouri and for two years in 

 charge of dairy husbandry work in Alfred University, as instructor in milk 

 production ; H. E. McNatt, of the Missouri University and Station, as instructor 

 in municipal and sanitary dairying; R. S. Hulce, a graduate of the University 

 of Wisconsin, as assistant in milk production ; J. P. Terry, a graduate of Cor- 

 nell University, as assistant in dairy manufactures; and F. E. Jorgensen as 

 dairy field assistant. 



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