NOTE S. 



Arizona University and Station. — Dr. R. H. Forbes, dean of the college of 

 agriculture and director of the station, has been given a year's leave of absence 

 to assist the Societe Sultanienne d'Agriculture, of Cairo, Egypt, in agricultural 

 war service in the valley of the Nile. Charles R. Adamson has resigned as 

 poultryman to become a county agent. 



Kansas College and Station. — Dean W. M. Jardine has been apiwinted presi- 

 dent, and Dr. J. T. Willai'd, vice president. Harry L. Kent, associate professor 

 of education and principal of the school of agriculture, has been appointed 

 State director of education under the Federal Vocational Education Aid Act. 

 R. W. Kiser, instructor in animal husbandry and superintendent of land and 

 live stock, has become extension animal husbandman and has been succeeded 

 by J. W. Crumbaker, foreman of the agronomy farm, and he in turn by Geo. H. 

 Phinney. N. E. Olson has resigned as assistant in dairying and has been suc- 

 ceeded by W. R. Davis. H. A. Pratt has been appointed assistant in horti- 

 culture and foreman of the greenhouse, vice W. F. Pickett resigned. 



Maine Station. — Dr. Raymond Pearl, biologist and for some time in charge 

 of statistical work for the U. S. Food Administration, has been appointed head 

 of the department of biometry and vital statistics in the school of hygiene and 

 public health of John Hopkins University. 



Nevada University and Station. — Dr. Winfred B. Mack, head of the depart- 

 ment of veterinary science and bacteriology in the university and station since 

 1907 and head of the State Veterinary Control Service, died January 18 at the 

 age of 46 years. Dr. Mack was a 1904 graduate of the New York State 

 Veterinary College with two years post graduate training, and in 1905-6 was 

 assistant in comparative pathology and bacteriology at Cornell University. His 

 work in Nevada had dealt mainly with diseases of live stock, notably infectious 

 anemia of horses, contagious epithelioma of chickens, and various disorders 

 at sheep and cattle. Of late he had been giving particular attention to quaran- 

 tine and inspection work, including the supervision of the campaign against 

 rabies. 



New Mexico Station. — C. A. Thompson, assistant in soils in the Washington 

 Station, has been appointed assistant agronomist, vice A. Z. Smith, who has 

 taken up county agent work. 



New York State Station, — F. H. Hall, vice director and editor, has been 

 granted leave of absence to take charge of publicity work of the U. S. Food Ad- 

 ministration dealing with perisliable foods. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Dean H. L. Russell has been granted 

 leave of absence to succeed George E. Haskell in charge of the work witli butter 

 and cheese of the United States Food Administration. 



Progress in Agricultural and Home Economics Instruction in Canada. — ^The 

 chief of the Military Convalescent Home of Sans-Bruit, Quebec, has made ar- 

 rangements for teaching agriculture to convalescent soldiers, the courses being 

 in charge of a district agricultural representative. Instruction has been 

 given in practical work in drainage snirveys and rotations on the hospital farm, 

 commercial poultry keeping, market gardening, and beekeeping. Some of the 



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