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California TTniversity and Station. — The formal dedication of the first 

 of the new buildings for the Citrus Substation and Graduate School of Agricul- 

 ture was held March 27. 



R. S. Vaile, assistant professor of orchard management at the Citi'us Sub- 

 station, has accepted an appointment from the National Armenian Relief Com- 

 mission to go to Persia as agriculturist. His work is expected to be of an 

 extension nature and designed to rehabilitate the agricultural interests of the 

 region. 



Idaho University and Station. — A substation for the study of problems inci- 

 dent to high altitudes was authorized at the last session of the legislature. 

 Action has been taken by the board of regents looking toward Its establishment 

 on State land at Felt, in Teton County, at an elevation of approximately 6,300 

 feet. 



In response to direct requests from farmers, the department of bacteriology 

 has sent out this year cultures sufficient for the inoculation of 15,000 acres of 

 legumes. The cultures are sold to farmers of Idaho and neighboring States at 

 the actual cost of manufacture, exclusive of equipment, of approximately 20 

 cents per acre. 



J. S. Jones has resigned as director and chemist of the station and professor 

 of agricultural chemistry in the university, effective June 30, and has ti.ssumed 

 charge of the operating laboratory of one of the Government nitrate plants 

 under the Ordnance Division of the War Department. Other resignations in- 

 clude W. C. Edmundson as assistant professor of horticulture and assistant 

 horticulturist to accept a position with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Glenn S. Ray as assistant professor of farm 

 crops to become agricultural advisor for Franklin County, Wash., and A. C. 

 Burrill as station entomologist to accept a position with this Deparrment as 

 extension entomologist with headquarters iu eastern Washington. Dr. T. I^. 

 Hills, bacteriologist of the university and station, has been granted leave of 

 absence for the period of the war and has been commissioned first lieutenant in 

 the Sanitary Corps. 



L. E. Longley, formerly of this Department, has accepted an appointment as 

 assistant professor or horticulture and assistant horticulturist. R. H. Smith 

 has been appointed entomologist and has been detailed to southern Idaho for 

 special work in the study of the clover aphis. 



Purdue TTniversity and Station. — O. E. Reed, of the Kansas College and Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed chief of the department of dairy husbandry beginning 

 August 1. R. E. Caldwell, acting chief of the department, has resigned to 

 engage in commercial work. Chester G. Starr, acting associate in animal hus- 

 bandry, has been appointed agricultural agent for Tazewell County, 111. P. W. 

 Mason, assistant professor of entomology, has accepted a position in the Divi- 

 sion of Deciduous Fruit Insects in the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



Massachusetts College. — A new department of horticultural manufactures 

 has been established with W. W, Cheuoweth of the pomulogicul department as 



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