1918] 



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Virginia Truck Station. — J. A. McCliutock has resigned as plant pathologist 

 to become extension pathologist in charge of cotton, trnck, and forage crop 

 diseases in Georgia for the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, with headquarters at Athens, Ga. 



Washington College and Station.— It is announced that W. J. Spillman has 

 decided not to accept the position of dean of the college of agriculture and 

 director of the station, to which he was recently elected. 



Dr. J. S. Caldwell has resigned as physiologist of the station to accept an 

 appointment as physiologist in charge of the fruit and vegetable utilization 

 laboratories of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. F. W. Allen, assistant 

 horticulturist, has resigned to accept a position with the Bureau of Markets 

 of the Department. E. G. Woodward, associate professor of dairy husbandry 

 and assistant dairy husbandman at the Nebraska University and Station, has 

 been appointed dairy husbandman, beginning January 1. Dr. F. D. Heald has 

 been appointed head of the newly-established department of plant pathology, and 

 Autliony Spuler, assistant entomologist. 



Wisconsin University. — It is announced that seniors drafted or enlisted in 

 the Army or Navy during the current year are to receive their degrees in June. 

 Other students withdrawing for this service will receive college credit. Albert 

 J. Roush has been appointed assistant professor of agi-icultural engineering. 



Wyoming University and Station, — J. L. Robinson, assistant agronomist, has 

 entered a reserve ofRcers' training camp. 



States Relations Service. — C. H. Lane, for several years chief specialist in 

 agricultural education, has been transferred to the Federal Board of Voca- 

 tional Education as field agent for agricultural instruction in the Southern 

 States, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. F. E. Heald is now in charge of the 

 work of agricultural instruction in schools in this Service. H. P. Barrows, 

 specialist in agricultural instruction for several years, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as professor of agricultural education in the Oregon College. J. D. Black- 

 well, for several months assistant in agricultural education, has become director 

 of vocational agriculture for the State of Texas with headquarters at Austin. 



R. W. TruUinger, for several years in charge of the abstracting for Experi- 

 ment Station Record in rural engineering and associated with that in soils and 

 fertilizers, has been commissioned first lieutenant in the Ordnance Reserve and 

 has been called into active service. 



Experiment Station in Santo Domingo. — An executive order of December 24, 

 1917, establishes an experiment station in Santo Domingo under the direction 

 of the Department of Agriculture and Immigration. A tract of land has been 

 selected about 10 miles west of the capitol and the work of clearing the laud 

 and preparing for the erection of buildings has begun. An appropriation of 

 $5,500 is available for these purposes. It is announced that special attention 

 will be given to live stock with a view of improving the herds of the island. 



Holger Johansen, formerly of the St. Croix Experiment Station and recently 

 connected with the Porto Rico Federal Station, has been appointed director. 



Agricultural mobilization in Portugal. — A degree has been passed by the 

 Portuguese Government regarding agricultural mobilization, to be effective for 

 two years after the close of the war. The object is to organize an active 

 propaganda for increasing cultivation, provide agricultural syndicates and 

 rural postal savings banks, and furnish farmers with information regarding 

 the best farm practice as to fertilizers, cultural methods, seeds, etc. The 

 primary purpose is to promote the cultivation of food products of prime neces- 

 sity, and the power is conferred to make this obligatory. 



