NOTES. 



Georgia College. — G. R. Skinner and W. H. Allen have succeeded C J. 

 Goodell and D. J. Taylor as assistant in animal husbandry and supervisor of 

 poultry clubs, respectively. C. A. AVhittle has resigned as editor-librarian, 

 J. M. Purdom, jr., being appointed editor and Miss Nelle SI. Reese, librarian. 

 ■M. C. Gay has been appointed field agent in marketing. 



Missouri University and Station. — C. E. Mangels, assistant chemist at the 

 Ohio Station, has been appointed instructor in agricultural chemistry and 

 assistant in the station beginning April 1. Mitchell D. Wood has succeeded 

 C. W. Sheppard, who is to take up farming, as assistant in animal husbandry. 



ITew Jersey College and Stations. — The short cour.ses in agriculture, which 

 closed February 21, A\ere completed by 98 students, 39 being in general agri- 

 culture and dairy farming, 27 in fruit growing and market gardening, 22 in 

 poultry husbandry, and 10 in home economics. 



J. W. Day has resigned as assistant in agronomy in the college and Ralph 

 ;m. Hubbard as field assistant in horticulture in the state station. Miss Carrie 

 E. Pimm has been appointed assistant extension specialist in hoiue economics. 



Porto Rico Federal Station, — Harvey E. Thomas, assistant plant pathologist 

 of the Virginia Station, has been appointed scientific a.ssistant in plant pathology. 



South Carolina Station. — The division of entomology is completing plans for 

 a field laboratory in one of the coastal counties, for the study of nematodes 

 and American mole crickets. Experiments have been continued in regard to 

 tJie making of home boiled concentrated lime-sulphur wash, and a formula has 

 been worked out which gives a very satisfactory Avash of the same specific 

 gravity as the commercial preparations. 



Twelve additional poultry houses have been constructed to house selected 

 breeding pens of Barred Plymouth Rocks, Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, 

 Orpingtons, and Single Comb Black Minorcas, and the various experimental 

 and breeding pens of heavy-laying Single Comb White Leghorns. Experi- 

 ments are under way to determine the relative value of anthracite coal and 

 kerosene as fuels for heating brooder stoves in the South. A special brooder 

 house has been built for this experiment. 



Texas College and Station. — The state legislature has established a West 

 Texais Agricultural and Mechanical College of a grade coordinate with the 

 existing institution, as well as a junior college located elsewhere to give two 

 years of high school agriculture and two years corresponding to the freshman 

 and sophomore years of college work. The location of the West Texas college 

 is to be determined by a board consisting of the governor, lieutenant governor, 

 state commissioner of agriculture, state superintendent of public instruction, 

 and two members of the legislature. 



V. L. Cory, superintendent of the Denton substation, resigned December 

 31, 1916, and was succeeded on January 25 by C. H. McDowell, a 1912 graduate 

 of the college, previously engaged in farming and extension work in the State. 

 H. Lebeson, assistant chemist, resigned February 20 and was succeeded by 

 Charles Buchwald, and he in turn by G. B. L. Smith. 



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