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and other wastes on the farm and in the home has been begun. These new 

 notes supplement the regular series of press bulletins, which will be continued 

 as heretofore. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The station officials are cooperating 

 with the extension division to promote a campaign for safe farming. The 

 State seems to be well aroused as to the advantages of producing food and 

 feed crops on the home farm, several thousand letters having been received 

 requesting information as to the proper cultivation, fertilization, etc., of these 

 crops. The question of the home garden has aroused especial interest among 

 both city and country people. 



E. E. Culbreth, assistant in the division of markets and in charge of the 

 accounting systems of the credit unions, has resigned to accept a commercial 

 position. Dr. I. M. Hawley has been appointed nursery inspector. 



Ohio Station. — W. C. Boardman and O. H. Smith, assistants in the soil survey, 

 have resigned. Sidney Bliss has been appointed assistant in the department 

 of soils. 



Oregon College and Station. — O. G. Simpson, assistant professor of dairy 

 manufactures and dairy manufacturing specialist, has resigned to become 

 manager of the Oregon Cooperative Dairy Exchange. J. O. Beck has been 

 appointed instructor in dairying, vice D. C. Howard, who has been appointed 

 county agent of Columbia County. 



Pennsylvania College. — A tract of 60 acres adjoining the present experi- 

 mental orchard is to be developed with a view to affording Instruction to 

 students in the commercial operations of fruit growing. About 20 acres will 

 be planted to apples, 7 to peaches, 4 to grapes, 8 to small fruits, 1 each to pears, 

 plums, and cherries, and 3.5 to nuts, while 5 acres will be used for variety 

 tests and studies of the botanical species from which the fruits have sprung. 

 It is planned to provide eventually a foreman's house and facilities for spray- 

 ing, packing, etc. The courses are to be so arranged as to permit of spending 

 half-day periods at the orchard. 



J. B. Scherrer, of the New Hampshire College and Station, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of vegetable gardening extension, effective April 15, and 

 J. Martin Fry, assistant in agricultural extension, beginning February 1. 

 Ralph A. Waldron, instructor in botany, has resigned to take up graduate 

 work at the University of Pennsylvania. 



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

 at the Virginia Station, has been appointed plant pathologist. 



South Carolina College and Station. — H. W. Barre has been appointed director 

 of research, beginning April 4. He will thus become director of the station, 

 vice J. N. Harper, whose resignation has been previously noted, but not dean 

 of the college, that office having been dropped for the present. 



"Utah College and Station.— A. W. Ivlns of Salt Lake City, J. W. Knight of 

 Provo, Mrs. Lois C. Hayball of Logan, A. G. Barber of Logan, and Frank B. 

 Stephens of Salt Lake City have been appointed to the board of directors, vice 

 Thomas Smart, J. Q. Adams, J. M. Peterson, Annie K. Hardy, and Joseph 

 Quinney, jr. 



The policy of the State toward the college and station was slightly changed 

 by the last legislature by substituting for the continuous appropi ' tion method 

 the inclusion of estimates In the governor's budget. A substantitilly increased 

 appropriation for the ensuing blennlum was granted, of which the station re- 

 ceives $7,500 additional and the extension work $5,000 additional, together 

 with $G1,100 for buildings and Improvements and $6,000 for pure bred live 

 stock and pasture. 



