NOTES, 



Connecticut State Station. — H. K. Hayes, in charge of plant breeding work, 

 has accepted an appointment as associate professor of agronomy and associate 

 agronomist at the Minnesota University and Station beginning January 1, 1915. 



Idaho University and Station. — F. L. Kennard, professor of field crops and 

 farm management and agronomist, has been appointed instructor of agronomy 

 and agronomist at the Minnesota substation at Crookston, vice O. I. Bergb, who 

 has been transferred as superintendent of the Grand Rapids (Minn.) substa- 

 tion. J. F. Nicholson, bacteriologist of the university and station, has resigned. 



Illinois "University. — Citizens of Spring Valley, Bureau County, have donated 

 to the university for experimental purposes 17 acres of land near a local high 

 school. A similar offer of 20 acres of land near Kewanee, Henry County, has 

 been made by Thomas McNamara. 



• Maine University. — V. G. Aubrey, instructor in animal industry, has been 

 appointed extension specialist in poultry in Rutgers College. 



Minnesota Station. — Alex Carlyle, assistant in plant breeding, has accepted 

 the superintendency of the experiment farm established in connection vv^ith 

 the new provincial school of agriculture at Vermilion, Saskatchewan. 



Missouri University and Station. — The biology building authorized by the 

 last legislature is now in use by the departments of zoology and botany. It is 

 a 2-story and basement structure 220 feet long by GO feet wide and cost $110,000. 

 It has been designed specifically for biological work and contains many features 

 of interest to experimenters along this line. It is regarded as probably the 

 most modern laboratory building on the university campus. J. B. Rand has 

 been appointed extension assistant in animal husbandry and veterinary science, 

 and assigned to the hog cholera eradication work. 



Nebraska University. — J. E. Miller, of Lincoln, and E. P. Brown, of Arbor, 

 have been elected regents for a six-year term beginning January 1, 1915, suc- 

 ceeding George Coupland and C. E. Anderson. P. L. Hall, of Lincoln, has been 

 appointed regent, vice C. S. Allen, resigned, this appointment holding until the 

 next general election. 



New Mexico College. — Miss Dora Edna Ross, of the extension division of the 

 University of Missouri, has been appointed to take charge of the extension 

 work in home economics. 



North Carolina College and Station. — P. B. Sherwood has been transferred 

 from the position of instructor in chemistry in the college to that of assistant 

 chemist in the station. 



Ohio State University. — Malon Yoder, of the department of agronomy, has 

 been appointed assistant in grain standardization in this Department with 

 headquarters at Portland, Oreg. 



Vermont University. — E, L. Ingalls has been appointed in charge of the 

 agricultural club work in the public schools. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Hjalmar O. Watrud has been appointed 

 extension instructor in agi'icultural economics in the college of agriculture and 

 assistant in agricultural economics in the station. 

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