NOTHS. 



Colorado College and Station. — H. M. Bainer, professor of farm mechanics and 

 instructor in dairying in the college and in charge of farm machinery investi- 

 gations in the station, has resigned to become agricultural demonstrator for the 

 Santa Fe Railway system. 



Georgia College. — The extension department has recently held several teachers' 

 institutes at which courses of agricultural instruction have been outlined. The 

 interest shown by the teachers has been very gratifying and indicates that the 

 institute method is a feasible means of introducing agricultural instruction into 

 the common schools. A. Maclaren and R. L. Nixon, of the extension department, 

 have resigned, the former to accept a position in Toronto, Canada, and the 

 latter to accept the princlpalship of the Tenth District Agricultural School at 

 Granite Hill. 



The honorary degree of doctor of science was conferred ui)on President Soule 

 at the recent commencement of the University of Georgia. 



Prei)arations are in ]n-ogress for the erection of a veterinary hospital in which 

 it is planned to manufacture and distribute hog-cholera serum. 



Illinois Station. — Additional permanent soil experiment fields have been lo- 

 cated at Mount Morris, Dixon. La Moille, Minonk, Aledo, Carthage, Carlinville, 

 Lebanon, Ewing. Raleigh, and Unionville. These fields comprise about 20 acres 

 each of land selected for the purpose because of its uniformity, representative 

 character, and accessibility to visitors. Two additional tracts of land have been 

 also purchased and added to the permanent ecpiipment of the department of hor- 

 ticulture, one a 20-acre oi'chard in bearing at Olney, and the other a 76-acre 

 farm 1 mile east of Olney. 



Arrangements have been practically completed by the department of dairy 

 Inisbandry for establishing a cow test association among the dairymen in the 

 vicinity of Harvard. A contest, to be known as the Illinois Competitive Cow 

 Test, is being arranged for the purpose of arousing moi'e interest in breeding and 

 better methods of feeding. A fund of .$1,000 has been secured for cash prizes 

 in this contest, and in addition there will be extensive merchandise prizes. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — President K. L. Buttertield received the 

 honorary degree of doctor of laws at the recent commencement of Amherst 

 College. Dr. B. N. Gates, of the B>ureau of Entomology of this Department, has 

 accepted the assistant professorship of bee culture, and in addition to instruc- 

 tion will carry on experiments for the station and act as state inspector of 

 apiaries. 



In the station, Sumner C. Brooks, a 1910 graduate of the college, has been 

 api)ointed assistant in botany and vegetable pathology, and David W. Anderson, 

 a graduate of the New Hampshire College, graduate assistant in horticulture, 

 chiefly for work in plant bi-eeding. 



Missouri University and Station. — II. O. Allison, assistant ;i!iimai husbandman 

 in tlic Illinois University and Station, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of animal husbandry. He will have charge t)f the breeding herds of beef cattle 

 and the cattle feeding experiments. Other recent appointments include L. A. 

 Weaver, a graduate of the university, as assistant in animal husbandry. 

 \V. J. Ilendrix. a graduate of tlie Ohio Stiite University, as assistant in 

 agronomy. L. A. Morgan, of tlie .Veliraska Univer.sity. as assistant chemist 

 in tlie station to succeed Di'. C. K. Francis, who has resigned to accept the 



