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worth of cheese per month. D. R. Noland has been appointed to assist in 

 organizing farmers in the mountain region. 



J. E. Eckert has been appointed assistant entomologist in field work and 

 nursery inspector in the station, vice S. C. Clapp. W. Kerr Scott has been 

 appointed assistant in club work. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — G. P. Tlaisance, chemist in the station, has 

 resigned to accept a commercial position and has been succeeded by Dr. C. T. 

 Dowell. D. A. Spencer, assistant professor in animal husbandry and assistant 

 animal husbandman, has resigned to accept a position with the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Oregon College and Station. — A training course for teachers of vocational 

 work has been established at the college by the State Board for Vocational 

 Education. 



Among the best attended courses in the annual short course work were a 

 grain grading coui'se to enable farmers and warehousemen to classify and 

 grade their products for bulk handling and a farm tractor course to enable 

 farm laborers to operate and care for farm power machinery. 



Because of the scarcity and high price of lead arsenates, the department of 

 entomology is recommending the use of calcium arsenate as an insecticide. It 

 is requiring, however, that commercial preparations be submitted to the de- 

 partment of agricultural chemistry for analysis. 



Dr. L.*A. Rufener, assistant professor of rural economics and sociology, has 

 resigned to become expert economist for the United States War Trade Board. 



Pennsylvania College. — F. D. Crooks, instructor in poultry husbandry, and 

 E. J. Kepler, assistant in botany, have resigned effective January 21 and 

 January 1, respectively. 



South Carolina College and Station. — H. G. Lewis has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of soils and chemistry and assistant chemist in the station. 

 W. E. Hunter, graduate assistant in botany, has joined an officers' training 

 camp. H. E. Shiver, assistant in chemistry, has volunteered for the Aviation 

 Corps. 



South Dakota College. — It is announced that the faculty and the students 

 voluntarily agreed to sacrifice nearly a week of the Christmas recess, give up 

 rest days between the semesters, and go to classes on Saturdays, in order to 

 shorten the school year and close early for farm work. About five weeks is 

 expected to be gained in this way. 



Utah Station. — Scott Ewing has been appointed assistant meteorologist, vice 

 N. E. Edlefsen who has become county agent for Emery Coimty. 



Vermont University and Station. — Through a revision of the general statutes 

 of the State, effective February 1, oversight of the station has been placed in 

 the hands of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the university, 

 acting as a board of control. This replaces the board consisting of the president 

 of the university, ex officio, and two trustees, which for 30 years has directed 

 its work. Ex-governor E. J. Ormsbee, who has been a member of the board 

 since 1886, retired under this change. Edwin W. Lawrence, of Rutland, has 

 been appointed a trustee of the university to succeed Redfield Proctor, who 

 has resigned to enter the U. S. Army. 



L. H. Burgwald has been added to the staff of dairy instructors in the 

 extension service, and Miss Bertha Holden has been appointed instructor in 

 home economics. J. P. Sturtevant, sheep specialist, is to divide his time be- 

 tween the extension services of Vermont and New Hampshire. 



Virginia Station. — W. G. Harris, associate chemist, has been granted leave of 

 absence to enter Army service. 



