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Arizona University. — Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, since 1909 professor of educa- 

 tion and psychology at DePauw University, has been appointed president. Tho 

 registration in the college of agriculture is 30 per cent larger than that of the 

 previous year. 



California University and Station. — Elaborate tests of various kinds of sor- 

 ghums and corn for silage purposes are contemplated by the animal husbandry 

 department. 



Dr. Walter P. Kelley of the Hawaii Federal Station has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of agricultural chemistry in the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture 

 and the citrus substation. Woodbridge Metcalf has been appointed assistant 

 professor of fore!?try. R, F. Miller, formerly assistant animal husbandman 

 at the Montana Station, has been appointed assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry to have charge of the experimental work with sheep, and with head- 

 quarters at Davis. Dr. M. B. Kurtz has been appointed assistant veterinarian 

 in connection with the hog-cholera immunization work. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — Dr. E. V. Wilcox, special agent In charge since 1908, 

 has returned to this Office as scientific and administrative assistant in connec- 

 tion with its relations with the experiment stations. J. M. Westgate, agronomist 

 in Forage-Crop Investigations of this Department, has been appointed agrono- 

 mist in charge to take effect January 1, 1915. 



Idaho University and Station.— W. L. Carlyle resigned as dean and director 

 in September and is now secretary of the Northwestern Live Stock Association, 

 with offices in Moscow, Idaho. J. S. Jones, vice director of the station, is serving 

 as acting director. O. D. Center, of North Dakota, has been appointed director 

 of agricultural extension, with offices in Boise, and began his duties in October. 

 Stephen A. Regan has resigned as state seed commissioner to accept a position 

 with the grain standardization work of this Department and will be stationed 

 at Portland, Oreg. R. B. Coglan, state leader of county agents, has resigned 

 to engage in teaching in Oregon. E. M. Strate began work in October as cream- 

 eryman for the department of dairying. 



Illinois University and Station. — W. F. Handschin has been appointed state 

 leader in charge of county advisory work, both under the Smith-Lever Act and 

 in cooperative relations with this Department, with the title of vice director of 

 demonstration work. Other appointments include the following instructors: 

 Clyde R. Newell, farm mechanics; James B. Andrews, animal husbandman; 

 Frederick N. Evans, landscape gardening: and Margaret B. Stanton, aiamie 

 Bunch (extension), Greta Gray, and Anna Williams, household science. Assist- 

 ants have also been appointed as follows : Claude Harper and James W. Whise- 

 nand, animal husbandry ; Anton Prasil, animal chemistry ; Mary H. Keith, 

 animal nutrition ; P. W. Allen, dairy bacteriology ; William B. Nevens and Frank 

 Turner, dairy husbandry; Howard D. Brown, olericulture; Edwin Deal, Herbert 

 W. Blaney, and John R. Van Kleek, landscape extension ; D. T. Englis, floricul- 

 tural chemistry; August G. Hecht and L. E. Miles, floriculture; Roy Hansen. 



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