NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station.— I'ercy F. ^Yilliams, professor of horticulture 

 and forestry and state horticulturist, died December 4. at the age of 29 years. 

 Professor Williams was graduated from the Massachusetts College in 1905, 

 and after a period of commercial landscape gardening became assistant horti- 

 culturist in the station in 190S, and head of the department in the college and 

 station two years later. He introduced the study of landscape engineering into 

 the college, and in the station has been the author of numerous horticultural 

 bulletins, notably on the Satsuma orange and the pecan, in which be was 

 particularly iuteresteil. 



California University and Station. — Additional appointments include Presi- 

 dent John W. Gilmore, of the Hawaii College, as professor of agronomy, and 

 A. V. Stubenrauch, of the pomological investigations of this Department, as 

 professor of pomology. J. E. Coit, associate professor of pomology and superin- 

 tendent of the citrus substation at Riverside, has been made professor of citri- 

 eulture, with headquarters at Berkeley. 



Connecticut College. — Koy E. Jones has been appointed instructor in poultry 

 husbandry. 



Georgia College. — John T. Newton and J. A. Thrash have been reappointed to 

 the board of trustees. J. E. Turlington has resigned as instructor in agronomy 

 in tlie extension department. 



Iowa College. — A. M. Ten Eyck, formerly superintendent of the Fort Hays 

 substation in Kansas, has been appointed to the farm crops section of the ex- 

 tension department. 



Maine University. — George A. Yeaton, orchardist, and Albert Verrill, assistant 

 chemist, have resigned, the former to take up county demonstration work and 

 the latter to enter commercial work. Elmer R. Tobey has been transferred to 

 the position of assistant chemist. 



New Jersey College. — A course in home economics is being offered for the 

 first time as one of the short winter courses, beginning November 18 and 

 ending February 28. It includes such special subjects as chemistry of foods, 

 home management, horticulture, dairying, home sanitation, and invalid and 

 infant cookery. 



Ohio University and Station. — Over 100 students have been registered in the 

 college of agriculture, which is now considerably the largest in the university. 

 An apprentice course in animal husbandry, in which alternate years are spent 

 in the university aud on some live-stock farm selected by the department, is a 

 new feature. 



Ross M. Sherwood, George R. Green, E. P. Arzberger, H. R. Watts, J. B. 

 Demaree, J. T. Rogers, and L. E. ]Melchers, assistants in forestry, animal hus- 

 bandry, and botany, have severed their connection with the station. The first- 

 named has accepted the position of instructor in poultry husbandly at the Iowa 

 College. 



Oregon College. — The stock judging pavilion was burned to the ground Octo- 

 ber 25, causing an estimated loss of $7,500. The structure is to be replaced 

 immediately from state funds available for the reconstruction of state buildings 

 destroyed by fii'e. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Dr. William A. Buckhout, professor of 

 botany and botanist, died December 3, at the age of 66 years. Dr. Buckhout 

 was a graduate of the college in the class of 1868 and received the master's 



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