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to accept a position at the Delaware College and Station. Arthur J. Farley 

 has been transferred from extension worli to an instrnctorship in horticulture, 

 Warren W. Oley from research to extension work in the same subject, and 

 Alexis L. Clark from extension work to become an assistant state leader in 

 extension work. 



Cornell University. — The equipment of the college of agriculture is being 

 augmented by the addition of new buildings for work in soils and animal hus- 

 bandry, which are approaching completion. The soils building, for which 

 $100,000 was available, will house the teaching and investigational activities of 

 the department of soil technology. The animal husbandry building provides 

 about 37 rooms for the department of animal husbandry and costs about $91,000. 

 In connection with this building is a large stock-judging pavilion 160 by 80 

 feet, accommodating about 500 people. 



The summer school of agriculture secured an enrollment of about 360. 

 Several new courses were offered for the special benefit of those teaching agri- 

 culture. 



The department of home economics is cooperating with various communities 

 in organizing local canning clubs among farm women. These clubs aim to pro- 

 mote a knowledge of the possibilities of canning as a profitable addition to 

 the activities of the farm. 



Ohio State University. — The former department of agronomy has been divided 

 by the establishment of a department of agricultural engineering, with H. O. 

 Ramsower in charge and F. W. Ives as instructor. A. G. McCall has been 

 granted a year's leave of absence, during which time George Livingston will be 

 acting head of the department of agronomy, with instruction work in charge of 

 Forrest Semple. i\I. F. Abel has been appointed graduate assistant in field 

 crops. 



■ Recent promotions include Dr. J. F. Lyman, D. J. Kays, and Vernon H. Davis 

 as professors of agricultural chemistry, animal husbandry, and horticulture 

 respectively. L. M. Montgomery has been made professor of horticulture, and 

 Miss Minna C. Denton professor of home economics. J. R. Wiley and Gilbert 

 Gusler of the department of animal husbandry, W. G. Stover of the department 

 of botany, and R. B. Stoltz and W. L. Clevenger of the dairy department, have 

 been appointed assistant professors. A professorship of farm management in 

 the rui'al economics department has been established. 



C. S. Wheeler has been appointed in charge of agricultural extension work 

 in public schools, vice A. B. Graham resigned to become head of the newly 

 established New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island. 



The first Country Life Week was held beginning August 10, with special 

 attention to the needs of rural ministers. 



Oregon College and Station. — Recent important additions have been made to 

 the dairy and live stock herds with a view to strengthening both the instruc- 

 tion and experimental work of these departments. It is announced that a pure- 

 bred herd of the four principal dairy breeds is to be built up as rapidly as 

 possible. 



Extension work in dairying has been separated from that in live stock and 

 remains under the direct charge of E. B. Fitts. Ralph McBurney, instructor 

 in chemistry in the Oklahoma Station, has been appointed instructor In bac- 

 teriology, and Leroy Childs research assistant in entomology. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — H. P. Davis, instructor in dairy husbandry 

 and assistant experimentalist, has resigned to accept a position with the Dairy 

 Division of this Department. 



