NOTES. 



Arizona Station. — G. E. P. Smith, irrigation engineer, has inaugurated an in- 

 vestigation into the amount, availability, and value of the underground water 

 supply in a reiiresentative arid-region valley. The station has instituted work 

 in vegetable physiology and pathology, and W. B. McCallum, Ph. D., of the 

 University of Chicago, has been selected to have charge of this work. He will 

 enter upon his duties about .January 1, and will take up the study of certain 

 plant diseases peculiar to the region. Edward E. Free, a recent graduate in 

 chemistry at Cornell University, has been appointed assistant chemist. 



California University. — The title of M. E. Jaffa has been changed from assist- 

 and professor of agriculture to assistant professor of nutrition. 



Connecticut College and Storrs Station. — W. M. Esten has succeeded W. A. 

 Stocking, jr., as dairy bacteriologist in the college and station. 



Delaware College and Station. — Harry Hayward has accepted the position of 

 director of the station and professor of agriculture in the college. He will 

 assume his duties October 1. 



Florida University and Station. — C. M. Conner has resigned as agriculturist 

 and vice-director, to accept the position of agriculturist in the North Carolina 

 College. W. R. Clothier of Kansas has been appointed to succeed him as agri- 

 culturist. 



Indiana Station. — C. O. Swanson has resigned as assistant chemist to accept a 

 similar position at the Kansas Station. L. S. Hasselman, a graduate of Pur- 

 due, class of '06, has been added to the chemical department as assistant chem- 

 ist. C. O. Cromer, a graduate of Purdue, class of 'OG, has been appointed as- 

 sistant agriculturist. H. N. Slater, dairy field assistant, has been appointed 

 expert in the Dairy Division of this Department, in charge of extension work 

 in dairying in Texas. G. I. Christie has been transferred from assistant in crop 

 improvement to associate in charge of agricultural extension. 



Iowa College and Station. — ,J. A. McLean, in charge of animal husbandry at 

 the Colorado College and Station, has been elected assistant professor of animal 

 husbandry in the college and assistant animal husbandman in the station, to 

 succeed W. J. Rutherford, resigned. E. T. Robbins, assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry in the college, will hereafter devote all of his time to station work as 

 assistant in animal husbandry. M. E. McCulloch, E. Humbert, and L. C. Bur- 

 nett have been elected assistants in the farm crops department. The poultry 

 department recently established at the college has been placed in charge of H. C. 

 Pierce, of Ithaca, N. Y. M. L. King, a graduate of the mechanical engineering 

 department of Iowa State College, has been elected exprimentalist in agricul- 

 tural engineering. 



An agricultural extension department has been organized, with P. G. Holdeu 

 as superintendent. He will have a corps of six or seven assistants, who will 

 be specialists in the subjects of animal husbandry, soils, dairying, farm crops, 

 horticulture, and domestic science. The total staff in the division of agriculture, 

 including the instruction staff, the experiment station, and the extension work, 

 will number 41 this year. 

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