NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — The resignation of A. J. Norman, assistant in 

 horticulture, to engage in commercial orchard work in Nebraska, has been fol- 

 lowed by the appointment of Percy F. Williams, a graduate of the Massachu- 

 setts College, to fill the vacancy. 



Colorado College and Station. — George P. Weldon, assistant entomologist at the 

 Maryland Station, has l)een appointed field assistant of the fruit investigations 

 at Delta, vice E. P. Taylor, resigned to accept a position as entomologist with 

 the Missouri Fruit Station. The college is to erect a two-story brick building 

 <■>() by 120 ft. for civil and irrigation engineering. The cooperative work in horse 

 breeding has been reorganized under a new arrangement whereby both the sta- 

 tion and this Department will devote an increased amount of funds to the 

 project. 



Connecticut State Station. — H. R. Sttn-ens, a graduate of the University of 

 Vermont, and K. G. ^Mackenzie, a graduate of Yale University, have recently 

 joined the station staff as chemists. 



Georgia College. — A cotton school for farmers was held January 6-17, which 

 is believed to Ite the first of its kind. Lectures were given on the soil, ferti- 

 lisers, the cotton plant, seed selection, cotton disea.ses and insect pests, feeding 

 cotton by-products, and cotton machinery, together with practical instruction 

 in cotton grading, cotton warehousing, and the handling of cotton seed. About 

 120 farmers were in attendance. 



Substantial progress is being made in the erection of the new agricultural 

 I)uilding. A dairy barn has been recently completed, and a barn is now under 

 construction for the department of field experiments. 



Hawaii College — J. E. Roadhonse, of this Oflice, whose appointment as dean 

 was recently noted, diet! November 28, 1907. W. T. Pope, a graduate of the Kan- 

 sas College and head of the science department of the Honolulu Normal School 

 since 1902, has been appointed acting dean, and will proceed with the inaugura- 

 tion of the institution and the organization of its work. It is now hoped to 

 begin actual instruction February 1. 



Idaho University and Station. — R. E. Hyslop, late of the Wyoming University 

 ;;nd Station, has been appointed agronomist. 



Purdue University. — The third State corn show and the first State fruit show 

 were held on the university grounds in connection with the farmers' short 

 course, January 13-18, through the cooperation of the respective State organi- 

 zations with the university. 



Iowa College and Station. — Recent ai)iiointments include C. A. Scott, of the 

 Forest Service of this Department, to succeed H. P. Baker; J. F. Barker, a 

 recent graduate of the Ohio TTniversity, vice E. B. Watson, who has accepted 

 a position with the Bureau of Soils; and S. S. Fay, of the Ohio Station, who 

 has been elected to the position of experimentalist in the division of soils. 



Kansas College and Station. — ludHstrialist announces the appointment of J. C. 

 Kendall, recently State dairy commissioner, as head of the department of dairy 



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