1918.] NOTES. 799 



pies of vegetable seeds have been received for test in comparison with those 

 for previous years. Over 300 lots of seed corn, representing several thousand 

 ear samples, have been tested with results demonstrating the urgent need for 

 testing corn this season. 



Work has been begun on a calf bam, for which the legislature appropriated 

 $9,000. 



Dr. Louis M. Massey has been granted leave of absence as assistant pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology at Cornell University and assigned to this station 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to conduct extension work in plant 

 pathology. Mitchel Carroll has been appointed first assistant to the ento- 

 mologist for mosquito control and experimental work. 



John H. Hankinson has resigned as State leader of farm demonstration. 

 Irving L. Owen has been appointed manager of the college farm to succeed 

 C. S. Van Nuis. Willard C. Thompson, assistant poultry husbandman, has 

 resigned to enlist in military service. 



New Mexico Station. — J. R. Meeks has resigned as dairyman to take up 

 county agent work in Indiana. Cliarles E. Coi'many has been appointed assist- 

 ant agronomist. J. M. Franklin, assistant in horticulture, has resigned to 

 join the Navy. 



North Dakota College and Station. — Dr. A. F. Schalk, professor of veteri- 

 nary physiology in the college, has been appointed station veterinarian. .James 

 Godkin has been appointed assistant botanist C. J. T. Doryland, soil bac- 

 teriologist, has been granted leave of absence for six months. 



Oregon College and Station. — At the last annual session of the board of re- 

 gents, the president of the board was appointed to take charge of the special 

 war-time work which will be carried on in connection with the regular college 

 activities. President Kerr has been lecturing very extensively on food conser- 

 vation and the war in Oregon, North Dakota, Idaho, and other States. 



Two service flags, made by the home economics club and bearing 1,23.5 stars, 

 have been presented to the college by the students' assembly. At the annual 

 commencein^nt, June 3, 192 students received degrees and 23 received cer- 

 tificates. The fre.shman and sophomore classes have been larger than ever 

 before and the decrease in the upper classes has been merely nominal and due 

 to heavy enlistments. 



H. V. Tartar has resigned as associate professor of agricultural chemistry 

 and station chemist to accept a position on the chemical staff of the University 

 of Washington. R. V. Gunn, assistant instructor in agricultural economics and 

 farm practice at the University of Wisconsin and assistant in agricultural 

 economics at the Wisconsin Station, has been appointed assistant professor in 

 farm management extension beginning July 1. . Clair Wilkes has been apnointed 

 assistant in farm management. L. W. Wing, jr., instructor in dairy' bus nulry, 

 and Fred W. Miller, instructor in veterinary medicine, are now serWng in the 

 aviation .section of the Signal Corps. 



Science notes that Dr. F. E. Denny, of the University of Chicago, has been 

 appointed research assistant in horticulture, vice J. R. Magness, effective April 

 1. Dr. Helen M. Gllkey, of the University of California, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of botany and curator of the herbarium, to succeed the late 

 H. S. Hammond. 



R. W. Allen, sjiperintendent of the Umatilla Substation at Hermiston, has 

 resigned to accept a position with^he U. S. Department of Agriculture. L. R. 

 Breithaupt, .superintendent of the Harney County Substation, has been suc- 

 ceeded by John Martin of the Belle Pourche, S. Dak., Substation of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of this Department 



