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entered upon his duties September 1. Other appointments include the following: 

 V. C. Smith, secretary of the college, vice H. C. Ramsower, head of the newly 

 organized department of agricultural engineering; John I. Falconer, Ph. D. 

 (Wisconsin, 1914), assistant professor of rural economics; C. L. Long, extension 

 department in horticulture and poultry husbandry; J. S. Coffey, of Purdue Uni- 

 versity, assistant professor in animal husbandry; T. C. Stone (Illinois, 1914),' 

 assistant in animal husbandry; J. L. Hutchison and F. J. Salter, Instructors in 

 agricultural chemistry; and G. M. McClure, assistant in agricultural chemistry. 

 Max F. Abell (Cornell, 1914) has been appointed assistant in farm crops. 



Oregon College. — The horticultural show, in which apples of standard varieties 

 from many parts of the United States were exhibited, was held in the horticul- 

 tural building November 7. Fruits of the kinds best adapted to Oregon condi- 

 tions were displayed in educational forms, and contests in judging and identifi- 

 cation of varieties were features of the show. An exhibit of Oregon nuts was 

 made by a nursery company, and former students of the college provided three 

 subtropical exhibits of fruits and nuts from southern California and Florida. 

 Demonstration potting and pruning were also done by the specialists. 



Farmers' Week has been postponed to February 1-6, 1915, inclusive, and the 

 exercises assigned to the extension division. A number of conventions of the 

 leading agricultural and rural interests will be held at that time, and problems 

 of rural community life will receive consideration. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — The new stock judging pavilion is prac- 

 tically completed. It is a concrete, brick, and steel structure with an arena 

 120 feet long by 30 feet wide and with seating accommodations for about 800. 

 The basement also contains rooms for instruction in methods of butchering and 

 handling meats, and a modern refrigeration plant is to be installed. The cost 

 of the pavilion iuid equipment is about .$30,000. 



The new dairy barn consists of a center or main feed barn, 100 feet long by 

 36 feet wide, for the storage of hay and grain, to which are attached a cattle 

 barn 129 feet long by 14 feet wide, and an experimental cattle barn SO by 36 

 feet. There are also two silos 18 feet in diameter and 40 feet high, and a series 

 of sheds, lOS feet in length, for bulls, young stock, etc. The barns are con- 

 structed of hollow brick on a concrete foundation, the walls finished in stucco, 

 and roofed with red asbestos shingles. Their total cost with equipment is 

 about ,$12.5.000. 



Miss Pearl ISIacDonald has been appointed home economics worker in connec- 

 tion with the extension department; H. N. Cobb and L. J. Obold, both 1914 

 graduates of the college, assistants in agronomy; F. D. Crooks, assistant in 

 animal husbandry, vice D. E. Warner, resigned to accept a ix)sition with the 

 Connecticut Storrs Station; M. F. Grimes, assistant in animal husbandry, vice 

 C. W. Hickman, resigned to become assistant professor of animal husbandry 

 at the University of Idaho; James M. Sherman, instructor in bacteriology at 

 the college and bacteriologist at the station; T. L. Hills, assistant in bacteri- 

 ology; and W. C. Gillespie (1914), assistant in experimental pomology, vice 

 R. H. Bell, resigned. 



Texas College and Station. — J. D. Blackwell, a 1914 graduate of the University 

 of Missouri, has been apiwinted associate professor of agricultural education, 

 and W. T. Magee, instructor in animal husbandry. 



I. S. York, superintendent of the Spur substation, has resigned, and was 

 succeeded by R. E. Dickson, formerly assistant agronomist of the main station, 

 June 1. Thomas J. Conway (Cornell, 1914) has been appointed poultry hus- 

 bandman, and entered uiK)n his duties October 1. J. M. Jones, instructor in 

 animal husbandry and animal husbandman in the New Hampshire College and 



