NOTES. 



Colorado College. — J. B. Ryan of Rocky Ford, and W. I. Gifford of Hesperus, 

 have been appointed to the governing board, vice Charles Pearson and Dr. 

 R. W. Corwin. 



Purdue University and Station. — F. C. Lewis of the school of agriculture Is 

 to continue during the summer his studies for the station regarding the most 

 practicable farm buildings for Indiana, and the possibilities of developing stand- 

 ardized farm buildings for the State. R. B. Goss has been added to the station 

 staff to assist in a tractor testing project. 



Iowa College and Station.— Dr. A. YV. Dox lias returned as chief of the 

 chemistry section after nineteen months' service as captain in the Sanitary 

 Corps, U. S. Army. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — Science notes that A. F. Kidder has 

 resigned as professor of agriculture in the college of agriculture to become 

 agronomist and assistant director of the State Station at Baton Rouge. 



Massachusetts Station. — The legislature has permitted the use of not more 

 than $2,000 of the current appropriation to the college for the suppression of 

 poultry diseases, and has authorized a fee to be charged of not more than 7 cts. 

 per bird tested. The particular disease aimed at is the bacillary white diarrhea. 

 and the work will be done by the veterinary department. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The resignations are noted of C. L. 

 Newman as head of the department of agronomy, to accept an appointment with 

 the Federal Board for Vocational Education; Dr. G. A. Roberts, head of the 

 department of veterinary medicine, to become veterinarian with the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation and to be stationed with the hygienic laboratory of the 

 medical school at Sao Paulo, Brazil; ami Dr. F. A. Wolf, as head of the de- 

 partment of botany of the college, but retaining hie connection with the station. 



Tennessee Station. — Dr. D. A. Metcalfe D appointed veterinarian. 



Washington College. — An Inquiry recently made of 115 agricultural students 

 concerning their plana for the future furnished 7." replies, 51 from students 

 brought up in the country. Fifty-five of the students were expecting to own 

 or control a farm within live years after completing their college course, 13 

 through inheritance, 5 of these being town hoys. Thirty-eiu'ht students ex- 

 po, ted to rent or become managers of farms other than their own for a time 

 after graduation, lit were planning to teach agriculture in high schools, 11 to 

 take up st. Hon work, 5 to teach in agricultural colleges, and the remainder to 

 follow some occupation closely associated to farming as club work, county 

 agent work, official testing, etc. 



Roy O. Westley, assistant professor of agronomy at the Crookston substa- 

 tion of the University of Minnesota, has been appointed Instructor In farm 

 crops, beginning July 1. 



Wisconsin University and Station.- -C. M. Woodworth has resigned as 

 instructor and assistant in genetics to take up studies of disease resistance in 

 flax with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The board of trustees has authorized 

 the erectiou of several steer sheds for experimental feeding and a double house 

 for the use of the farm help at the university stock farm. 



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