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California University and Station. — TH\ W. I.. Howard, horticulturist at the 

 Missouri T'niversity and .Station, has been appointed associate professor of 

 pomology beginning in Februaiy, 1915. Dr. Jacob Traum, formerly of the Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry of this Department, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of veterinarj' science for the investigation of tuberculosis among 

 domestic animals. Roland S. Vaile has been appointed assistant professor of 

 orchard management, and assigned to the Graduate School of Tropical Agricul- 

 ture at Riverside. 



Georgia College and Station. — The following have been added to the staff of 

 the college since September 1 : J. B. Berry, formerly of the Pennsylvania Col- 

 lege, as professor of forestry ; E. G. Welch as instructor in farm mechanics ; 

 and in the extension service, G. L. Bigford, C. J. Goodell, and W. H. Howell as 

 scientific assistants in animal husbandry. R. M. Gridley as instructor in animal 

 husbandry. Dr. A. L. Hirleman and L. G. Proctor as lield agents in hog cholera 

 work, R. F. Irvin as instructor in poultry husbandry, D. J. Taylor as field agent 

 in poultry husbandry, and S. H. Starr and E. C. Westbrook as instructors in 

 agronomy. 



Arrangements have been perfected by which the station will have at least five 

 cooperative plats in different parts of the State where variety tests of field 

 crops, including cotton, corn, small grains, and forage plants will be conducted. 

 Arrangements have also been made for conducting investigations in fertilizers 

 for apples in the northeast and northwest sections of the State. 



Fred H. Smith has been appointed assistant chemist beginning September 15. 



Kentucky University and Station. — B. D. Wilson, assistant chemist in the 

 fertilizer department in the station, and C. B. Wilson, assistant in the hog 

 cholera serum laboratory, have resigned. Recent appointments include in the 

 station M. J. Smith and E. Huston as assistants in animal husbandry, and 

 Robert Pfanstiel and E. H. Nollau as as.sistant chemists, and in the extension 

 department Charles E. Stokes as agent in animal husbandry in cooperation with 

 this Department. 



Maryland College and Station. — H. J. Patterson has resigned as president, to 

 take effect July 1. 1915, recommending in his letter of resignation the abolish- 

 ing of the office of president and the substitution of an administrative com- 

 mission consisting of a director of college work, the director of the station, 

 and the director of extension work. This plan is under consideration by the 

 board of trustees, as well as a plan for the reorganization of the subeoUegiate 

 courses at the institution with an agricultural high school along lines similar to 

 that at the University of Minnesota. 



Recent appointments include C. E. Temple, of the Idaho Univei'sity and Sta- 

 tion, as associate plant pathologist in the state horticultural department, R. C. 

 Rose as associate botanist in connection with college and station work, and 

 Stewart B. Shaw, of the North Carolina Station, as horticulturist in connection 

 with the state horticultural work. 



Massachusetts College. — Prof. George F. Mills, associated with the institution 

 from 18S9 until his retirement last April, died October 27, at the age of 75 



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