NOTES. 



Arizona University. — The State allotment for county scholarships has been 

 Increased from $150 to $500 each, available for tuition, room, and hoard at the 

 university for the year following award. Examinations are to be held annually 

 to select one beneficiary from each county. Agriculture is among the seiet. 

 wlnHi may be offered as subjects in the examination. 



California University and Station. — Among the members of the Staff who 

 have recently returned from military service are W. B. Herms, associate pro- 

 fessor of parasitology; G. R. Stewart, assistant professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry; A. \V. Christie, instructor in agricultural chemistry; and W. I). Norton, 

 H. E. Droblsh, and F. T. Murphy, assistants in agricultural extension. 



Connecticut Storrs Station. — Leslie E. Card, assistant poultry husbandman. 

 resigned April 1 to take up graduate work at Cornell University. 



Florida Station. — A cooperative arrangement has been entered into with the 

 Bureau of Public Roads of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for installin-r 

 a plant with the view of ascertaining the value of sewage when applied to the 

 sandy soils at the station. 



A better fruit campaign was held under the auspices of the extension division, 

 February 10 to 26. This campaign afforded opportunity for the station workers 

 to present information relative to their Adams fund projects on citrus problems 

 to growers in various parts of the State, and was found very helpful in estab- 

 lishing a clearer comprehension of the various problems under way. 



Miss Evelyn Osborn has been appointed assistant entomologist beginning 

 March 1. William N. Ankeney of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture has been given headquarters at the station while 

 studying vegetable diseases in the State. 



Georgia College and Station. — Lewis A. Zimm, instructor in forestry and 

 plant pathology at Cornell University, has been appointed extension forester 

 in the college. 



The station has arranged a cooperative feeding project with the Bureau of 

 Markets of the State Department of Agriculture, in which a study will be made 

 of the influence of certain feeds on the softness and other qualities of pork. 

 D. (!. Sullins, swine specialist at the Connecticut College, has been appointed 

 animal husbandman, beginning March 1". 



Idaho University and Station. — The various State administrative depart- 

 ments have been reorganized under a recent act of the legislature into nine 

 State departments. One <>f these is agriculture, which is further administered 

 by directors of markets, animal industry, plant Industry, and fairs. A board of 

 agricultural advisers is also provided. The duties of the new department 

 cover a wide range, among them that of cooperation with the college of agri- 

 culture and station and the Federal Government, and it is announced that close 

 cooperation with the college and station has already been agreed upon. 



The legislature made much more liberal provision for the college of agricul- 

 ture and station than ever before. The aggregate lor the ensuing biennium, 

 including Federal funds, will be $175, -M. Iu additiou there are certain supple- 



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