NOTES. 



Arizona University. — A five week summer course In range stock manage- 

 ment is being arranged. It is expected that four weeks of the course will be 

 spent in an observation trip through range counties. 



California University and Station. — The most important annual budget of 

 recent years lor the university has just been approved by the board of regents. 

 Salaries of the Staff were materially increased, following an appropriation by 

 the recent legislature of $75,000 for special increases in salaries, together with 

 normal salary increases approximating $30,000. These increases were dis- 

 tributed among 318 members of the faculty. A new salary scale was adopted 

 under which the pay of instructors may commence at .$1,300 with an upper 

 limit of $2,000. The average salaries paid assist aid professors were raised 

 from $1,S00 to $2,400 ; those of associate professors from $2,4(.mi to $3,000; 

 and those of full professors from $3,000 to $3,000. Many members of the teach- 

 ing staff will be paid above the minimum levels, and though a few remain 

 lower it is proposed that the salaries be brought eventually to the minimum 

 level or higher. It is stated that while the new salary levels do not wholly 

 meet the problem of the increased cost of living or the competitive salaries 

 offered in other fields of activity, yet, in general, the increases tend to improve 

 conditions and to make possible the retention of many who were considering 

 the necessity of Leaving the teaching profession. 



Provision has been made in the College of Agriculture for a director of resi- 

 dent instruction, a director of the experiment station, and a director of agricul- 

 tural extension, each to be nominated annually by the dean of the college. 

 These positions have been tilled, beginning July 1. by the appointments of Walter 

 Mull'ord as director of resident instruction, Dr. II. J. Webber as director of the 

 station, and B. H. Crocheron as director of agricultural extension. These three 

 oflicers will constitute a standing committee on administration, with Director 

 Mid ford as chairman, lie will also serve as acting dean in the absence of the 

 dean of the college. 



Other changes in title and rank include J. T. Barrett, professor of plant 

 pathology, acting director of the Citrus Substation, and acting dean of. the 

 Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture at Riverside; I.. D. Batchelor, pro- 

 lessor of orchard management in the Citrus substation and Graduate School of 

 Tropical Agriculture; and R. L. Adams, professor of farm management. R. E. 

 Clausen, assistant professor of genetics, and It. S. Vaile, assistant professor of 

 orchard management in the Citrus substation, have recently returned from Army 

 service. Mrs. A. A. Weigart has been appointed instructor in agricultural 

 extension. 



Connecticut Stations. — The State appropriations for the stations were appre- 

 ciably increased by the last legislature. For the ensuing biennium the State 

 Station will receive $4.">,000, an increase of $7,500, and the Slorrs Station 

 $25,000, an increase of $10,000. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — R. A. Goff, who has been in charge of the Glen- 

 wood substation, has been appointed director of extension for the Island of 

 Hawaii, effective April 1. Dr. Wallace Mact'arlane, formerly chemist at the 

 Oklahoma Station, was appointed April !> in charge of the divisions of chemistry 

 and agronomy in connection with the soil fertility Investigations. P. G. Krauss, 

 superintendent of the extension division, has been placed in charge of the 

 Haleakala homestead demonstration farm in addition to his other duties. 



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