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animal husbandry iu the station, has resigned to take effect October 1 to accept 

 a position with the Texas College and has been succeeded by Russell R. 

 Dodderidge, a graduate of the Kansas College. L. G. Schermerhorn, assistant 

 professor of horticulture and assistant horticulturist, has resigned to accept a 

 position with the New Jersey Stations, to take effect November 1. 



Nebraska University and Station. — On September 1, Dean Bui-nett was ap- 

 pointed head of the department of animal husbandry and C. B. Lee and H. J. 

 Gramlich professors of animal husbandry and associates in the station. 



Nevada University and Station. — Archer Wilmot Hendrick, dean of Whitman 

 College, Washington, has been appointed president. Frederick W. Wilson, 

 animal husbandman of the Arizona University and Station, has been appointed 

 in charge of the department of animal husbandry and has entered upon his 

 duties. Other appointments include Dr. Philip A. Lehenbauer as professor of 

 botany and horticulture, Jerome B. Frisbie, instructor in farm mechanics at 

 the Colorado College, as assistant in agronomy, and Miss Norma J. Davis as 

 state leader in home economics in the division of agricultural extension. 



New Mexico College and Station.- — Despite the loss of many Mexican students 

 and a considerable number of prei)aratory students through the establishment 

 of additional high schools, tlie total attendance at the college shows a gain of 

 15 per cent. Three-day extension courses in agriculture have been offered at 

 many points in southern New Mexico with an aggregate attendance of 1,400. 



Among the recent appointments are the following: A. C. Cooley, of Colorado, 

 as director of extension work and farm management ; J. M. Mann, instructor in 

 botany at the University of Wyoming, as assistant professor of biology; Miss 

 Lucy T. Boyd, as instructor in household economics; and Robert Latta and 

 James R. Meeks, both graduates of Purdue University, as assistants respectively 

 in dairying and animal husbandry. 



Cornell University. — In order to familiarize farmers with the provisions of 

 a new state law on grading and packing apples, demonstrations have been given 

 by the college of agriculture in special cars oi^erated in the fruit growing dis- 

 tricts by the New York Central Lines. This special train is the seventh of tlie 

 present year. 



The department of floriculture has recently received two valuable collections 

 of orchids from the Philippine Islands, one being presented by H. Boyle and the 

 other by Dr. A. R. Ward. 



North Dakota Station. — W. H. Peters, professor of animal husbandry at the 

 Manitoba Agricultural College, has accepted a position as animal husbandman. 

 He has been succeeded in Manitoba by.G. Ward Jones, superintendent of the 

 college extension work. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — F. C. Dose (Pennsylvania State, 

 1914) has been appointed assistant in animal nutrition vice D. H. Kauffman, 

 resigned, and entered upon his duties September 1. 



South Carolina Station. — C. A. McLendon, formerly botanist and plant pathol- 

 ogist of the Georgia Station, has accepted a position as field pathologist, vice 

 L. O. Watson, who has been placed in charge of the cotton wilt studies of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



Texas College. — C. M. Evans has resigned as superintendent of extension work 

 beginning September 1 to become editor of the Southern Farm mid Dairy Maga- 

 zine, published at Bryan, Tex. He has been succeeded by Clarence Ousley as 

 director of the extension service. 



Vermont University. — The New England Homestead announces that the trus- 

 tees have allotted $3,600 per annum to the support of county farm agents be- 

 ginning July 1. They also have authorized the erection of a stock judging 



