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vice C. A. Webster, resigned, and the latter in dairy husbandry. F. L. Duley, 

 who received the master's degree this year, has been appointed research as- 

 sistant in soils. 



Montana College and Station.— Recent appointments effective June 15 include 

 D. C. Wood, a 1915 graduate of the University of Missouri, as assistant pro- 

 fessor of farm management and R. S. Jones as assistant in chemistry. 



Nebraska University. — R. C. Jensen, instructor in dairy husbandry, resigned 

 July 1 to take up commercial dairy work in South Dakota. 



Cornell University and Station. — The legislature has granted increases to the 

 college of agriculture aggregating $119,557, of which $66,557 is for maintenance, 

 $35,000 to complete the heating plant, $8,000 for the summer school, and 

 $10,000 for improvements and miscellaneous purposes. This increase will per- 

 mit of one additional professor, three assistant professors, three instructors, 

 and sixteen assistants on the general staff and one assistant on the extension 

 staff. 



The new soils building has been named Caldwell Hall in honor of the late 

 Prof. G. C. Caldwell, professor of agricultural chemistry and chemist for many 

 years. A series of additions to the greenhouses is under construction as well 

 as a tool shed and new pig and sheep bams to cost about $15,000. Plans are 

 being drawn for the new plant industry building and preliminary plans for a 

 hall of zoology and a rural community service building. 



A plan has been ratified for the exchange for one or two terms of instructors 

 with others of equal grade and in similar departments at the University of 

 Wisconsin. One of the objects sought is the furnishing to these men of an oppor- 

 tunity to obtain a wider viewpoint through association with men and methods 

 of another institution. 



Instruction is to be offered in bee keeping. Dr. A. A. Allen, an instructor In 

 the arts college, has been appointed assistant professor of ornithology in the 

 college of agriculture, mainly for new courses in economic ornithology. 



A. R. Mann has been granted a year's leave of absence for graduate work in 

 the University of Chicago in rural sociology and related lines. He will be suc- 

 ceeded as registrar and secretary by Cornelius Betten, professor of biology 

 and registrar at Lake Forest College. Leave of absence for a half year was 

 granted to Profs. J. E. Rice and W. A. Stocking. 



North Dakota College and Station. — E. F. Ladd has been given the degree of 

 LL.D. by the University of Maine. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Recent appointments include the following 

 1915 graduates of the college as assistants: Paul S. Baker in agronomy, be- 

 ginning June 1, and E. R. Hitchner in bacteriology and E. A. Siegler and R. S. 

 Spray in botany, all beginning September 1. W. G. Edwards, who received the 

 degree of master of science in botany this year, has been appointed instructor 

 in botany and forestry beginning July 1, L. O. Overholts, instructor in botany 

 beginning August 1, and A. Leland Beam, teaching fellow in agriculture, be- 

 ginning September 1. 



Tennessee University and Station. — The forty-second annual meeting of the 

 East Tennessee Farmers' Convention was held in the assembly hall on the 

 station farm May 18 to 20 with an attendance of about 2,500. The convention 

 was divided into five sections, namely, live stock, dairy, horticulture, home- 

 makers (women), and boys' corn clubs. 



Recent appointments include Oscar M. Watson as instructor in horticulture 

 and horticulturist, and the following members of the extension staff: Hugh 

 Davis Tate, assistant director of agricultural extension ; DeWitt T. Hardin, 

 district agent for East Tennessee; James M. Dean, district agent for Middle 



