NOTHS 



Tuskegee Institute and Station. — Floyd A. Green, head of the creamery depart- 

 ment, has resigned to become connected with the United States Indian Schoo] 

 Service at Greenwood. S. Dak. 



Arkansas Station. — Dr. W. M. Bruce, of the University of Chicago, has been 

 appointed chemist, vice J. H. Norton, resigned to accept a newly established 

 position In the California Station as chemist in connection with soil and fer- 

 tilizer investigations in southern California. 



California University and Station. — Leroy Anderson has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of dairy industry with H. A. Hopper, of the Indiana Station, as assistant 

 jirofessor, and E. H. Hageman in charge of dairy manufactures. E. W. Major 

 is to devote himself entirely to the work in animal husbandry. 3.- W. Mills 

 resigned July 1 to engage in commercial work, and was succeeded as superin- 

 tendent of the Riverside Station by Thomas F. Hunt, the assistant horticul- 

 turist. In the department of entomology W. B. Herms has been appointed as- 

 sistant, C. Fuchs curator, and H. J. Quayle, W. H. Yolck, Earl Morris, and J. S. 

 Hunter field assistants at Whittier, Watsonville, San Jose, and San Mateo, re- 

 spectively. 



Florida University. — J. J. Yernou, formerly of the New Mexico College and 

 Station, has been appointed agriculturist and has entered upon his duties. 



Kansas College. — The degree of D, Sc. was conferred upon J. T. Willard by 

 the college at its recent commencement. 



Maryland College. — Gustav E. Cohen, assistant professor of chemistry, has 

 resigned to engage in commercial work. Alvah J. Norman, formerly assistant 

 in horticulture at the Alabama College and Station, has accepted a position 

 as assistant in the department of plant pathology. 



Massachusetts Station. — ^A joint meeting with the State board of agriculture 

 was held at Ludlow July 21, a demonstration of methods of curing foul brood 

 in bees being given. 



Minnesota University and Station. — H. J. Franklin has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of entomology in the university and assistant entomologist in 

 the station. 



Missouri University. — The college of agriculture will offer but two short 

 courses in agriculture for boys during farmers' week iu January, 1909. One 

 course, open to boys between the ages of 10 and 16 years, will continue one 

 week, and the other, open to boys between 16 and 20 years, will continue 10 

 days. The first course will include lessons in corn and stock judging, dairying, 

 and horticulture, and the second is intended to bring out the most important 

 princii)les of farm practice, including the judging and selection of animals, the 

 judging and testing of seed corn, and the lu'inciples of dairying, veterinary 

 practice, and fruit growing. 



New Mexico College and Station. — Dr. ^Y. E. Garrison has been elected presi- 

 dent of the college and has entered upon his duties. W. G. Hummel, of the 

 Colorado College and Station, has been appointed assistant in agronomy. 



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