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CalifornJa TJniyersity and Station, — A state survey of crop and lire stock 

 conditions in California and tlie possibility of increasing production was con- 

 ducted during AprU by members of the staff of the College of Agriculture, co- 

 operating with the various state officials, the Forest Service of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, and others. 



Recent promotions and changes in title include the following: As professors, 

 L. D. Batchelor in plant breeding (in the Citrus Substation and Graduate 

 School of Tropical Agriculture at Riverside), B. A. Etcheverry in irrigation 

 engineering, and C. L. Roadhouse in dairy industry ; as associate profeissors, 

 R. L. Adams and P. B. Kennedy in agronomy, and D. N. Morgan in agri- 

 culture (and assistant to the director of the station) ; as assistant professors, 

 H. S. Baird in dairy industry (at the University Farm at Davis), G. P. Gray 

 in entomology (and chemist in the insecticide laboratory), W. H. Heilemann 

 In agricultural extension, A. H. Hendrickson in pomology, G. W. Hendry in 

 agronomy, P. L. Hibbard in agricultural chemistry, and W. P. Tufts in pomology 

 (at the Univerislty Farm) ; and as instructors, E. O. Amundsen and J. W. 

 Mills in agricultural extension, J. R. Beach in veterinary science, Earl Bisbee 

 in dairy industry, A. W. Christie in agricultural chemstry, W. C. Dean \n soil 

 technology, P. T. Peterson in veterinary science (in charge of serum manu- 

 facture), and W, L. Sweet in pomology. George H. Hart has been appointed 

 professor of veterinary science; J. C. Bradley, of Cornell University, assistant 

 professor of entomology for one year in exchange with E. C. Van Dyke ; H. M. 

 Butterfield, instructor in agricultural extension ; R. W. Hodgen, instructor in 

 citriculture ; G. F. Fermery, assistant in agricultural engineering; and J. C. 

 Martin, assistant in agricultural chemistry. Leave of absence was granted for 

 the ensuing year to H. S. Fawcett, associate professor of plant pathology In the 

 Citrus Substation and Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, and to N. L. 

 Gardner, assistant professor of botany, from July 1 to January 1, 1918. 



Delaware College and Station. — The increased state appropriations to the 

 agricultural department have made possible a considerable enlargement of the 

 station staff. A new division of plant physiology has been organized, with 

 Ernest M. R. Lamkey, Ph. D., of the University of Illinois as its head, be- 

 ginning about April 16. W. J. Young has been appointed assistant In horti- 

 culture beginning April 1, C. E. Neff, assistant in agronomy beginning April 

 16, and M. O. Pence, assistant state leader of county agent work In the ex- 

 tension service, beginning July 1. 



Georgia College. — John M. Purdom, jr., was succeeded as editor, May 1, by 

 H. T. Maddux. 



Idaho ITniversity.— President M. A. Brannon has tendered his resignation. 



Massachusetts College. — About 40 acres of laud, previously not used for 

 production purposes, are to be under cultivation to Increase the food supply. A 

 part of this area has been In lawn and another tract was originally set aside 

 for recreation purposes. 



College credit for the remainder of the term has been granted to students 

 enlisting In military or other forms of mobilization duty, or to engage In food- 

 production service. On May 1 only about 100 students remained at the insti- 

 tution. 



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