NOTES, 



Purdue University and Station. — A number of special courses have been estab- 

 lished to give extra training for men preparing for military service. One of 

 these courses deals with tlie handling of horses and the treatment of their 

 more common diseases, several with gas engines, and another with military 

 French. 



A course of instruction for city garden supervisors was given in March. 



The station is cooperating with the Office of Cereal Investigations of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture in a study of root and systemic diseases of 

 corn. The worls is to be in direct charge of George N. Hoffer of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. An elaborate equipment for these physiological and patho- 

 logical investigations has been installed in the station laboratories. 



Frank I. Odell has been appointed manager of the Moses Fell Annex to the 

 station, located at Bedford. Claude Harper of the Illinois University and Sta- 

 tion has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry for extension work 

 with sheep. 



Iowa College and Station. — Recent lines of investigation to be undertaken 

 include studies of soft corn silage and digestion trials with lean and fat cows 

 on maintenance, by the animal husbandry section, buying in spring v. winter- 

 ing bees and a comparison of Italian, Carniolan, and Caucasian bees, by the 

 entomology section, calcium balance of dairy cows, by the chemistry section, 

 and ventilating systems for barns, by the agricultural engineering section. 



M. F. P. Costelloe, head of the department of agricultural engineering since 

 1915, died January 12 at the age of 37 years. Prof. Costelloe was a 1906 

 gradiiate in civil engineering of the University of Nebraska and received the 

 degree of agricultural engineer in 1916. He had had considerable experience 

 on various engineering projects, giving special attention to irrigation, sewage 

 di.sposal, and drainage. 



Knute Espe and T. H. Benton, assistants in the soil survey, and G. W. 

 Roark, assistant in chemistry, have resigned, and W. E. Whitehouse, assistant 

 in pomology, has been given leave of absence for the period of the war. 

 Assistants have been appointed as follows : Pomology, H. E. Nichols ; soil 

 survey, E. I. Angell ; and entomology, Albert Hartzell. 



Nebraska University and Station. — .J. R. Cooper has resigned as associate 

 professor of horticulture and assistant horticulturist to become professor of 

 horticulture in the University of Arkansas, effective April 1. 



Pennsylv?.nia Station. — J. S. Owens, assistant in experimental agronomy, 

 resigned January 16. 



Virginia Station. — T. J. Murray, associate professor of plant pathology and 

 bacteriology and associate bacteriologist, resigned February 5 to accept a 

 similar position at the Washington College and Station, 



Virginia Truck Station. — The substation established at Tasley in cooperation 

 with the State board of agriculture five years ago has been relocated with a 

 better farm and buildings near Onley. 



Selective Service Law and Agricultural Students. — An amendment to the 

 U. S. Selective Service Regulations is announced by the Provost Marshal Gen- 

 eral regarding certain land-grant college students in agriculture. The text of 

 the amendment is as follows : " Under such regulations as the Quartermaster 

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