NOTES. 



Hawaii College. — Jared G. Smith, professor of agriculture, has resigned to 

 become manager for a large commercial tobacco growing company on the island 

 of Oahu, and has been succeeded by L. A. Henke, previously director of agri- 

 culture at the high school of Elbow Lalie, Minnesota. 



Maryland College and Station. — Dr. A. F. Woods, dean of the Minnesota Col- 

 lege and School of Agriculture and director of the Minnesota Station, has been 

 appointed president of the college beginning July 1. Dr. H. J. Patterson, the 

 retiring president, will continue as director of the station. Dr. Raymond C. 

 Reed, professor of bacteriology, hygiene, and veterinary science at the Delaware 

 College and animal pathologist of the Delaware Station, has been appointed 

 chief of the department of animal industry. 



Capt. Richard W. Silvester, president of the college from 1892 to 1913 and 

 subsequently president emeritus and librarian, died December 31, 1916, at the 

 age of 59 years. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Additional appropriations aggregating 

 ?4SS.200 have been requested from the State Legislature. Of this amount 

 $250,000 is for a library building, $90,000 for extensions to the power plant, 

 $85,000 for other equipment and improvements, $50,000 for a dormitory, $9,000 

 for rural engineering shops, and $4,200 for a poultry house and judging 

 laboratory. In addition $35,000 is requested to improve, equip for experimental 

 work, and maintain for two years the tract of land acquired at Lexington, 

 under a previous appropriation of $8,000, for use as a market garden field 

 station under the management of the college. 



A. B. Beaumont, assistant professor of soil technology' in Cornell University, 

 has been appointed associate professor of agronomy and acting head of the 

 department. E. D. Waid, assistant director of the extension service, has re- 

 signed to engage in farming. In the station Dr. A. C. Edwards, assistant in 

 veterinary science, resigned December 31, 1916. S. H. DeVault has been ap- 

 pointed graduate assistant in agricultural economics. 



Hew Hampshire College. — Px-es. E. T. Fairchild died at Durham, N. H., Janu- 

 ary 23, at the age of 62 years. President Fairchild was a native of Ohio, for 

 10 years a regent of the Kansas College, and from 1907 to 1912 State superin- 

 tendent of public instruction in Kansas. He had been president of the New 

 Hampshire College since 1912, during which time the enrollment and equip- 

 ment of the institution had been largely increased. He was widely known in 

 educational circles, and served as president of the National Education Asso- 

 ciation in 1912. 



North Carolina College and Station. — Some interesting results are reported 

 by the division of horticulture from work with pecans in the eastern part of 

 the State. A large part of the old trees have been renewed by top-working, etc., 

 with varieties such as Stuart and Schley, which have been found to be the 

 best adapted for the purpose. 



B. P. Folk, State agent in charge of pig club work, resigned January 1 to 

 engage in farming in Louisiana. In the division of agricultural clubs A. K. 



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