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Director J. O. Lipman has been appointed chairman on agriculture of the in- 

 dustrial commission of New Jersey. This commission consists of 15 members 

 appointed by the State manufacturers' council, 5 of these members representing 

 agriculture. The purpose of the commission is to formulate a reconstruction 

 program for the State. 



Dr. H. C. McLean has resigned as soil research chemist. Van E. Leavitt, 

 extension specialist in fruit growing, died December 23, 1918. 



The following men who have been in military service have returned to the 

 station: William M. Regan, dairy husbandman; J. M. Hunter, animal hus- 

 bandman; W. C. Thompson, assistant poultry husbandman; Roscoe W. DeBaun, 

 extension specialist in market gardening; .1. Vincent Breazeale, foreman in 

 vegetable growing, and Dr. William II. Martin, appointed associate in plant 

 pathology to devote his entire time to problems in potato growing. 



Recent appointments Include Ingrid C. Nelson as assistant editor; Henry b. 

 Seaver as Instructor in horticulture, Edson J. Currier and F. Raymond Hunter 

 assistant Chemists, and Howard V. Huber as assistant State lender of farm 

 demonstration. 



New Mexico College and Station. — -A small drying house I i compli 



for use in drying Yucca elata, which Is being studied in connection with the 

 range cattle nutrition Investigations. 



George R, Quesenberry, professor of farm management and in charge of the 

 college farm, and Cleave W. Humble, Gates s. Vickers, and E. L. Barrows, assist, 

 ants, respectively, In animal husbandry, poultry, and Irrigation, have returned 

 from military service 



Oregon College and Station. — Walter Sheldon Brown, extension associate 

 professor of horticulture, has been appointed professor of pomology vice V. R. 

 Gardner, effective February 1. Frank Heidtman Lathrop, Instructor in ento- 

 mology and assistant entomologist, Leon w. Wing, Instructor Id dairy hus- 

 bandry, and Clair Wilkes. Instructor in farm management, have returned from 

 military service. 



Rhode Island Station.— Recent appoint Include the folio? alsi- 



ants: Helena A. M. Tibbetts and Walton E S ott in animal breeding and 

 pathology, and J. Roy Haag In chemistry. 



Virginia Station, ^fter leave of absence for military service E. T. Ratten 

 has resumed his duties as superintendent of the substation at Holland. W. Q, 

 Harris has been appointed associate chemist and Charles F. Warren assistant 

 horticulturist B. G. Anderson, superintendent of the substation at Appomat- 

 tox and county agent, is to give bis entire time to experimental work. 



American Farm Management Association. — The ninth annual meeting • f 

 this organization was held in Baltimore, January 8, 9, and 10. 1010. 



The presidential address, presented by G. A. Billings, had to do primarily 

 with an outline of the problems confronting farm management workers The 

 necessity for saving labor and for the economic utilization of land was 

 emphasized. The need for information regarding the coal of production on 



the farm led to the suggestion that a committee lie appointed to study pro- 

 duction costs and farm pract '<■ 



Two joint sessions were held with the American Association for Agricultural 

 Legislation at which the following papers were presented: Agricultural 

 Competition between Nations after the War. by M. s. Lane; Opportunities in 

 After-the-War Agriculture for the Young Man without Capital, by W. J. 

 Spillman; Purpose and Plans of the American Association for Agricultural 

 Legislation, by R. T. Ely; Colonization and Control, by 11. I,. Russell; Some 

 After-the-war Problems in Agriculture, by G. F. Warren: and Purpose and 

 Plans of the National Board of Farm Organizations, by C. A. Lyman. 



