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Delaware College and Station.— The horticultural department is undergoing 

 reorganization. C. A. McCue will retain general direction of all its activities 

 but has been relieved of other station work. It is expected that a research 

 horticulturist will be appointed. R. R. Pailthorp, assistant horticulturist, has 

 resigned to accept a position with the Bureau of Markets of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, with headquarters at Spokane, Wash. 



M. L, Nichols, assistant professor of agronomy, has resigned to accept a posi- 

 tion at the Virginia College in charge of extension work in farm engineering 

 and has been succeeded by F. M. Rast, jr., assistant professor of soils and ferti- 

 lizers in the University of Florida. C. E. Neff, assistant agronomist in the sta- 

 tion, has resigned to enter military service and has been succeeded by Geoffrey 

 Houghland. Dr. R. D. Mullinix, of the University of Chicago, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant chemist in the station beginning July 1. 



Kentucky Station. — S. L. Hibberd, of the department of agronomy, and J. U. 

 Field, field agent in cooperative purchasing and marketing, have resigned. 

 W. H. Simmons, dairy inspector, has bt^u transferred to veterinary work in 

 cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Louisiana Stations. — The legislature has appropri.ited $82,000 for the pur- 

 chase of a college farm, A tract has been .selected about three miles from the 

 college grounds which comprises approximately 600 acres of alluvial lands and 

 500 acres of highlands, or bluff, soil. Practically the entire area is now in cul- 

 tivation. Plans for the equipment and operation of the farm have not yet been 

 completed, but the property will be taken over by the college of agriculture 

 January 1, 1919, and used for instructional work. 



Minnesota University and Station. — The resignations are announced of W. L. 

 Oswald as assistant professor of botany, effective April 18 ; Ben C. Helmick as 

 assistant professor of agronomy, effective April 1, to become instructor in 

 agronomy and associate agronomist in the Connecticut College and Storrs Sta- 

 tion ; William Dietrich as assistant professor of animal husbandry and animal 

 husbandman at CnK)kston, effective May 1, to become county agent at Preston ; 

 David O. Spriesterback as research assistant in agricultural biochemistry, effec- 

 tive April 1 ; and Carl Kurtzweil as assistant in cereal crops, effective April 1. 

 I. D. Charlton, professor of farm engineering, has been placed in charge of the 

 work in army mechanics being given at the training school now in progress at 

 the university farm. 



Nevada Station. — Owing to heavy losses where lambs are produced on the 

 open range, a study of methods of increasing the percentage of lambs in Nevada 

 flocks has been planned. Where lambs are produced under sheds, the per- 

 centage is as high as from 120 to 130 per cent, while on the range it seldom i-uns 

 above 85 per cent. 



Porto Rico Federal Station. — William P. Snyder, assistant in plant breeding, 

 has been CDmniissioiied second lieutenant in the National Army. T. B. McClel- 

 land has been promoted to horticulturist and Leonard A. Dalton has been 

 appointed assistant horticulturist. 



Bhode Island Station. — Marguerite W. Elkins, assistant in animal breeding 

 and pathology, has resigned. 



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