NOTES. 



Georgia College and Station. — Recent appointments in the college include 

 Charles A. Whittle as editor-librarian, C. M. Kiger as tutor in horticulture, 

 G. E. Rice as a district corn club agent vice G. M. Gay, and H. B. Carpenter as 

 instructor in animal husbandry. 



The station live stock and hay barn was struck by lightning on the evening 

 of September 4, causing a loss of the barn, about 15 tons of hay, and several 

 adjoining structures. The loss was covered in part by insurance. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Recent appointments in the college in- 

 clude the following: W. D. Clark, of the Pennsylvania College and Station, as 

 professor of forestry; O. A. Morton as extension professor of agricultural 

 education ; A. A. Brown as instructor in poultry husbandry ; W. W. Chenowethi 

 as instructor in pomology ; Samuel Coons as instructor in dairying ; E. M. 

 McDonald as instructor in agronomy ; Arthur T. Dailey as supervisor of exten- 

 sion courses; and E. L. Morgan as community field agent. F. W. Morse has 

 been designated acting director of the station, beginning October 1. 



Nebraska University and Station. — R. K. Bliss, of the Iowa College, has been 

 appointed professor of animal husbandry and animal husbandman; W. J. Mor- 

 rill professor of forestry and forester; and G. C. White, of the Missouri Uni- 

 versity and Station, adjunct professor of dairy husbandry, vice W. L. French, 

 resigned. 



New Hampshire College. — Dr. Edward T. Fairchild, superintendent of public 

 instruction in Kansas, has been appointed president. 



Cornell University and Station. — John Craig, professor of horticulture since 

 1903, died August 12 at Siasconset, Mass. Professor Craig was born at Lake- 

 field, Quebec, in 1864, and educated at McGill College and the Iowa College, 

 graduating from the latter institution in 1S87. For about 12 years he served 

 as horticulturist at the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa, Canada, return- 

 ing to Iowa in 1899 to become professor of horticulture. In 1900 he was 

 appointed professor of extension teaching in Cornell, relinquishing this position 

 three years later to accept the chair of horticulture. 



Professor Craig was the author of a revised edition of Practical Agriculture 

 and a contributor to the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, as well as the 

 author of numerous station publications and articles in agricultural journals. 

 He had been editor of the National Nurserymun for several years, and at the 

 time of his death was secretary of the American Pomological Society. 



He was especially well known in the field of pomology, having a wide 

 acquaintance and being in much demand as a judge at exhibitions. He was 

 also much interested in nut culture, chairman of the nomenclature committee of 

 the American Sweet Pea and American Peony Societies, and a fellow of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain. 



Ohio Station. — A. F. D. Wussow has been appointed assistant in the depart- 

 ment of nutrition ; J. S. Houser has been promoted to the position of associate 

 entomologist. 



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