NOTES 



Arkansas Univei-sity and Station. — J. S. Knox, who received the M. S. degree 

 from the University of Idaho at its recent commencement, has been appointed 

 instructor in horticulture in the college and assistant horticulturist in the 

 station. 



Illinois University. — The tru.stees have included in the annual budget an item 

 of .$.'574.(KiO for the purchase of agricultural land and building sites for the 

 college of agriculture. 



Purdue TJniversity. — Clayton R. George has been appointed assistant in dairy- 

 ing in the extension department. 



Kansas College and Station. — A corps of extension workers has been holding 

 meetings and demonstrations on typical farms of Bourbon and Cowley coun- 

 ties. Four meetings were held daily and a total of about I.HOO farmers was 

 in attendance. It is planned to conduct similar field campaigns in at least 12 

 counties next year. 



W. L. Blizzard, assistant animal husbandman, resigned July 15 to accept a 

 position with a Kansas syndicate of farm i)ublications. 



Massachusetts College. — The construction of the new agricultural building for 

 which the legislature granted $210,000- is under way. The plans call for a 

 modern fireproof structure of brick :ind concrete with IGG feet frontage and 156 

 feet in depth, making the structure the largest on the campus. It will contain 

 lecture rooms, offices, a library, two large laboratories, and an .'luditorium seat- 

 ing nearly 1.000 people. 



Mississippi Station. — J. K. Morrison has resigned as iioultryman and has been 

 succeeded by E. P. Clayton, superintendent of education for Lee County since 

 190S. 



Missouri University. — The university celebrated on June 3 the seventy-fifth 

 anniversary of its founding. Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston was 

 among those delivering addresses and subsequently received the degree of LL. D. 



New Mexico College and Station. — H. S. Hammond, professor of biology and 

 botany, resigned July 1. 



Cornell University. — The new forestry building was opened May 15 in con- 

 nection with the meeting of the Society of American Foresters. It is a four- 

 story brick structure, 142 by 54 feet, costing $120,000 and constituting the first 

 of the proposed plant industry group. The ground floor contains wood tech- 

 nological and tiDiber testing laboratories, and those above laboratories, class- 

 rooms, etc., for mensuration, utilization, silviculture, and dendrological work. 

 For the present it will also house the department of plant breeding. 



Ralph S. Hosmer, superintendent of forestry in the Territory of Hawaii since 

 1903. has been appointed head of the department of forestry vice Walter Mul- 

 ford, who has accepted a similar position at the irniversity of California. G. W. 

 Peck, instructor in pomology, has resigned to become manager of a large orchard 

 in Ohio. David Lumsden, instructor in floriculture and landscape gardening- 

 and sui>erintendent of greenhouses and grounds at the New Hampshire College,, 



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