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and assistant in floriculture iu tlie station, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of floriculture, beginning June 1, Miss Clarli L. Thayer has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in investigation. 



Ohio State University. — Walter C. O'Kane, entomologist of the New Hamp- 

 shire College and Station, has been appointed professor of applied entomology, 

 beginning September 1. 



Oregon College and Station. — Director Cordley is spending much of the sum- 

 mer in a study of the various substations with a view to securing closer co- 

 ordination of the various lines of college and station work and their closer 

 relationship with several new phases of agricultural development. Claude I. 

 Lewis, for the past 8 years head of the department of horticulture, has been 

 appointed vice director of the station. Carl N. Kennedy, instructor of animal 

 husbandry at the Texas College, has been appointed professor of animal hus- 

 bandry, his duties including the work with horses and the secretaryship of the 

 State Stallion Registration Board. Ralph Reynolds has been appointed ex- 

 tension professor of animal husbandry to have charge of the extension work 

 with all classes of live stock except dairy cattle. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — The new horticultural building was dedi- 

 cated June 10, Prof. F. A. Waugh of the Massachusetts College delivering the 

 principal address on The Arts of Peace. The Students' Horticultural Associa- 

 tion presented to the college at that time a portrait of the late Gabriel Hiester, 

 president of the State Horticultui-al Association and a most active member of 

 the board of trustees. 



J. D. Harlan, assistant in experimental agi'onomy, resigned May 1 to become 

 agronomist with a chemical manufacturing firm of Pittsburgh, which is oper- 

 ating a test farm of 130 acres near Cleveland, Ohio. It is announced that 

 special attention is being given to work on the effect of radium on the growth 

 of crops under field conditions. 



R. S. Maddox, instructor iu forestry, has been appointed state forester of 

 Tennessee beginning September 1. Walter B. Nissley, insti'uctor in horticulture, 

 has been appointed head of the department of vegetable gai'dening at the New 

 York State School of Agriculture recently opened on Long Island. 



Clemson Coljege and Station. — S. W. Evans has been appointed secretary and 

 treasurer of th^ college and treasurer of the station, vice Dr. P. H. E. Sloan 

 resigned. 



Texas College. — Short courses of from three to six days duration are to be 

 offered in 18 towns representing 17 counties of the State. Members of the 

 faculty are to be in charge of the various schools, in close cooj^eration with 

 the county and district agents of the farmers' cooperative and. demonstration 

 Avork of this Department. 



Vermont University and Station. — G. S. Fassett, for nearly 25 years connected 

 with the governing board of the university and station, has resigned to take 

 effect July 1. Z. M. Mansur, also a trustee, died in April. Warren R. Austin 

 of St. Albans and Guy W. Bailey of Essex Junction, both alumni of the uni- 

 versity, have been appointed to fill the vacancies. 



Washington College and Station. — The station is establishing an arboretum 

 in which it is proposed to grow a group of each of the important timber trees 

 of the Temperate Zone. W. D. Hislop, assistant professor of animal husbandry 

 at the Ohio State University, has been appointed professor of animiil husbandry 

 and animal husbandman. 



West Virginia University and Station. — E. W. Sheets of the extension division 

 has been appointed professor of animal husbandry and animal husbandman. 

 D. C. Neal and Oliver Smith, assistants in plant pathology and agronomy, re- 

 spectively, are no longer connected with the institution. 



