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New Mexico College and Station. — An eutirely new board of regents has been 

 appointed, consisting of J. H. Paxton president, M. O. Llewellyn secretary and 

 treasurer, A. H. Hudspeth, R. R. Larkiu, and F. E. Lester, with Governor W. C. 

 MacDonald and Hon. A. N. White, state superintendent of public instruction, 

 as ex-officio members. R. E. Willard has resigned as assistant professor of 

 agronomy to accept a position with the Farm Management Investigations of 

 this Department. 



The horticultural and agronomy departments have instituted cooperative ex- 

 periments in the breeding of onion seed. 



Cornell University and Station. — The new department of forestry is offering 

 a full professional course of 5 years, leading to the degree of B. S. at the end 

 of the fourth year and that of M. S. a year later. Work for the Ph. D. degree 

 is also offered, as well as a one-year course in the elements of forestry. 



The horticultural library of the late Professor Craig has been donated to the 

 horticultural department of the college of agi'iculture. The collection includes 

 over 3,000 volumes, being especially rich in the subject of pomology. 



Dr. H. J. Webber has accepted a position with the University of California as 

 professor of plant breeding, director of the citrus substation at Riverside, and 

 dean of the proposed school of tropical agriculture. Robert INIatheson has been 

 appointed entomologist for the Province of Nova Scotia and professor of zoology 

 at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. 



North Carolina College Station.— .Joseph F. Brewster (Ph. D. Berlin, 1912) 

 has been appointed assistant chemist. 



Ohio State University. — The new poultry plant was formally opened October 

 12. The equipment comprises an instruction building and incubator house, a 

 laying house 126 feet long, and a brooder house. At present over 1,000 fowls 

 are being kept. A total of 18 students are registered in the course. 



J. H. Gourley, of the extension department, has accepted the position of head 

 of the horticultural department at the New Hampshire College and Station. 

 Recent appointments include Donald J. Kays, a 1912 graduate of the University 

 of Illinois; William Hislop (M. S. Kansas College, 1912), and Gilbert Gusler 

 (Ohio, 1912) as instructors in animal husbandry; R. B. Stolz (Ohio, 1912) as 

 instructor in dairy husbandry ; M. C. Sewell as instructor in soils ; and Ralph 

 R. Jeffries as assistant in horticulture. 



Oklahoma College and Station.— The new college year opened September 2 

 with an enrollment of over 700 students in regular - courses, and this will 

 probably reach 1,200. Many changes in the buildings and the completion of the 

 new engineering building serve to facilitate the work of both the college and 

 station. The department of agronomy is now conveniently housed in its own 

 building, with ample room for soil work, grain judging, and farm machinery 

 studies. The chemical department of the station has moved to the chemistry 

 building, thus bringing all the work in chemistry under one roof. The vaccine 

 and Bermuda grass work of- the station have been tran.sferred to the depart- 

 ments of veterinary science and animal husbandry respectively of the college. 



Ray Painter has been apiwinted assistant in entomology. 



Oregon College and Station.— M. M. McCool (Ph. D. Cornell, 1912) has been 

 appointed assistant professor of soils and assistant agronomist, E. M. D. 

 Brocker, of Purdue University, instructor in farm management, and W. L. 

 Powers assistant professor of irrigation and drainage and superintendent of 

 the irrigation demonstration farm. 



Pennsylvania College and Station.— W. G. Ross has resigned as assistant pro- 

 fessor of agronomy to accept the position of superintendent of farms for the 

 Western Penitentiary of the State, and is succeeded by W. H. Darst of the 

 extension department of Ohio State University. Joseph F. Cox (Ohio, 1912) 



