NOTES. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Mrs. II. B. Woleott, State leader of 

 home demonstration work, and It. L. Pontius, veterinarian in the station, nave 



resigned. P. L. Blumenthal and William Rodes, chemists, and Soger .Tones. 

 inspector of feeds and fertilizers, have returned to the station from military 

 service. 



Recent appointments include James Speed as editor in the college of agri- 

 culture, Roy Milton as farm superintendent. O. F. Floyd and J. \Y. Lindsay as 

 extension assistants in marketing, and A. S. Chapin as extension poultry 

 specialist. 



Maryland College and Station. — Dr. A. G. McCall, in charge of soil investiga- 

 tions, has been granted leave of absence to take up educational work in 

 Europe. C. L. Opperman, superintendent of the Ridgely substation, has been 

 appointed agricultural editor in the extension service, and has been succeeded 

 by Albert White. P. E. Richards and John Paul Jones have been appointed 

 assistants in soil investigations and plant physiology, respectively. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — William D. Hurd, director of the 

 extension service since its establishment in 1909, has resigned, effective about 

 June 1, to accept a position with the National Fertilizer Association and with 

 headquarters in the Middle West. Lieut. John B. Smith of the Sanitary Corps 

 has returned to the station as assistant chemist. 



Montana College and Station. — C. N. Arnett has resumed his duties as head 

 of the department of animal husbandry, following a year's service in France 

 with the American Red Cross. W. E. Joseph, assistant in animal husbandry, 

 Charles Haller, assistant in the grain laboratory, and R. M. Pinckney, assistant 

 chemist, returned to the station early in January after several months absence 

 in Army service. 



Cornell University and Station. — Dr. Vera B. Stewart, assistant professor 

 of plant pathology, died December 3, 1918, at the age of 30 years. Dr. 

 Stewart was a graduate of Wabash College in 1909 and received the Ph. D. 

 degree from Cornell in 1913. He had been subsequently engaged, for the most 

 part, in research, notably on fire blight and other diseases of horticultural and 

 ornamental nursery stock. In July 1918, he became pathology adviser to the 

 eastern market inspectors of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, ihis work 

 dealing particularly with the detection of incipient diseases in shipments of 

 perishable plant products for the Army and Navy. He was also an associate 

 editor of Phytopathology. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Fred Rasmussen, professor of dairy 

 husbandry, has been appointed Secretary of Agriculture for the State and en- 

 tered upon his new duties January 21. G. C. Given, associate professor of 

 experimental agricultural chemistry, resigned February 14. John B. Scherrer. 

 assistant professor of vegetable gardening extension, A. R. Haas, instructor in 

 botany, M. D. Leonard, instuctor In entomological research, and A. F. Yeager, 

 instructor in pomology, have also resigned. Recent appointments include H. S. 

 Adams as assistant professor of agricultural extension, effective March 1 ; J. F. 

 Olney, instructor in bacteriology; R. D. Lewis, assistant in agronomy; J. S. 

 Owens, assistant in experimental agronomy; and G. F. Miles and P. EL Smith 

 as assistants in plant pathology extension. 



Tennessee University and Station. — President Brown Ayres, widely known 

 in educational circles, died January 2S after a brief illness. 



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