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excepting such lands as may be deemed essential for Instruction in forestry and 

 such as may be "i" special value on account of their mineral deposits. A com- 

 mittee consisting of O. .M. Barnett, Frederick Dunlap, and m. i'. Miller has been 

 appointed to prepare and report i<> the board of curators as t" the plan of 

 procedure. 



R. K. Eudelson lias been appointed associate professor of soils, beginning 

 May i. John Carter has been appointed field assistant In farm crops, beginning 

 April l. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Professor Lawrence Bruner, after .■;'• 

 years' service in the university, has been relieved of active charge of the de- 

 partment of entomology. Myron H. Swenk has been placed In charge <>f all 

 entomological work in the state which comes under the heard nf regents, this 

 Including the department of entomology, the station activities, and the work 

 In connection with the ofliee of State entomologist. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — At the last session of the legislature an 

 appropriation was granted <>l' (75,000 for the erection of a horticultural huild- 

 Ing. The legislature also granted certain increases in the appropriations for 

 general maintenance and demonstration work. A law was passed providing for 

 the collecting and testing of samples of commercial legume-inoculating cultures 

 of bacteria. This law carries an appropriation of $2,000 for conducting the 

 work, but the appropriation will not be available until next year. 



The station policy has recently been adopted of inviting the various State 

 agricultural associations to appoint committees for consultation in p lannin g and 

 carrying on experimental work. A number of these associations have already 

 selected committees for this purpose. 



Considerable new experimental work has been taken up this spring. This 

 includes experiments on growing vegetables on the muck soils of northern New- 

 Jersey, additional studies on cranberries in southern New Jersey, fertilizer 

 tests on tomatoes in Burlington County, and fertilizer, disease control, and 

 seed tests with potatoes in central and southern New Jersey. The studies on 

 artificial oyster propagation have also been resumed, this work being in 

 charge of Thurlow C. Nelson, Ph. D., who is stationed at the oyster laboratory 

 at Tuckerton. 



A collection of garden tools ami equipment valued at $1,500 has been pre- 

 sented to the college l»y the National War Garden Commission. This equip- 

 ment has been in use at Camp Dix. N. J. 



Dr. B. II. A. Groth, who has been for several months pasr completing the 

 plant breeding work begun by the late Dr. B. D. Ilalsted, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as superintendent of a large sugar plantation in Santo Domingo. E, J. 

 Owen has accepted a position as Instructor in agriculture at the Leonardo high 

 school. William C. Skelly, assistant in pig club work at the Ohio State I'nivcr- 

 sity. has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry. Robert I'oultnoy has 

 been appointed assistant extension specialist in dairying, Mrs. Catharine Griebel 

 as assistant State home demonstration leader, and Linus II. Jones as research 

 fellow in plant physiology. 



Cornell University. — An entomological expedition to South America is pro- 

 jected under the auspices of the university for the twofold purpose of securing 

 entomological specimens and forming closer relations with South American in- 

 stitutions of learning. Next September J. C. Bradley is expected to visit Brazil, 

 Argentina, and Chile, and in the spring of 1920 he will be joined in Peru by C. R. 

 Crosby and Dr. W. T. M. Forbes for a trip on the upper Amazon River to Peral. 



E. O. Fippin, extension professor of soil technology, has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence, beginning July 1, to become director of the agricultural bureau 



