NOTES. 



Arkansas IJnlversity. — E. B. Mathew, head of the department of agricultural 

 education in the Fort Hays (Kans.) Normal School, has been appointed head 

 of the department of agricultural education. 



Kansas College and Station. — N. L. Harris, superintendent of the poultry 

 farm, has resigned to become poultry specialist in the extension division of the 

 University of Arizona and has been succeeded by Harold H. Amos. W. S. Lat- 

 shaw, assistant in soil analysis, has been appointed assistant professor of chem- 

 istry and will take charge of certain lines of analytical work in the station. 

 R. W. Titus, instructor in chemistry, has been transferred to the station as 

 assistant chemist and has been succeeded by H. E. Fowler. C. A. A. Utt, in 

 charge of analytical work on foods and dairy products, has resigned to engage 

 in commercial work in Baltimore, Md. 



Massachusetts College. — Alfred G. Lunn, instructor in poultry husbandry, 

 resigned March 1 to become head of the newly established poultry department at 

 the University of British Columbia. 



Minnesota University and Station. — Recent appointments include I. D. Charl- 

 ton, professor of agricultural engineering at the Washington College, as ijto- 

 fessor of farm engineering and chief of the newly established division of farm 

 engineering ; R. O. Westley as assistant professor of agronomy ; and A. M. 

 Christensen as instructor in farm crops at Crookston. W. W. Cumberland has 

 been appointed chief of the division of research in agricultui'al economics and 

 agricultural economist of the station, effective August 1. 



F. L. Kennard, agronomist, and O. M. Kiser, instructor in farm crops at 

 Crookston, have resigned. Leave of absence has been granted to E. C. Stak- 

 man, associate plant pathologist, to direct work for the control of cereal rusts 

 in the upper Mississippi Valley ; W. D. Valleau, research assistant in fruit 

 breeding; and D. O. Spriestersbach, research assistant in agricultural bio- 

 chemistry. 



Missouri ITniversity and Station. — An apportionment of State funds for the 

 calendar year 1918 has been made as follows: Agricultural laboratories, $3,000; 

 short winter course, $11,000 ; agricultural engineering, $1,000 ; animal hus- 

 bandry, $7,500; dairy husbandry, $2,500; entomology, $500; farm management, 

 $1,000; horticulture, $1,500; poultry husbandry, $750; rent on farm lands, 

 $1,000; pure bred live stock, $500; repairs and improvements on barns, $500; 

 for the station, $15,000 ; soils department, $500 ; soil survey, $G,500 ; soil experi- 

 ment fields, $5,325 ; farm crops experiment fields, $4,675 ; agricultural extension, 

 $32,500 ; and to promote the growing of improved corn, $1,500. 



The second term of the 1917-18 session of the short winter course in agri- 

 culture closed March 1. In spite of war conditions the enrollment was not 

 seriously curtailed, the total of 182 students for the two terms being about 10 

 per cent less than for the previous year. An unusual amount of interest was 

 manifested in the course, and the enrollment for the next session is expected to 

 be considerably larger. 



P. H. Ross, county agent leader for the State, has been appointed assistant 

 director of the agricultural extension service. George W. Hervey, assistant in 

 poultry husbandry, has received leave of absence for the period of the war, his 

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