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Tennessee ; Hubert Nichols, district agent for West Tennessee ; John C. McAmis, 

 specialist in agronomy ; Robert M. Murphy, specialist in animal husbandry ; 

 Campbell A. Hutton, specialist in dairy husbandry; Miss Virginia P. Moore, 

 girls' canning club agent; and Leo John Brosmer, specialist in poultry hus- 

 bandry. 



Utah College and Station. — The institution recently celebrated its twenty-fifth 

 anniversai'y with special exercises and a historical pageant. President San- 

 born, the first president and director of the institution, was among those present 

 and participated in the exercises. 



An appropriation of $55,000 for a new chemistry building, made by the 

 legislature two years ago but suspended by the governor, has now been re- 

 leased and the building is under way. An appropriation of $6,000 for a sewage 

 system and $30,000 for an addition to the power plant Avere approved by the 

 governor, but other appropriations were vetoed, including an increase to the 

 station. 



The entrance requirements for all college courses have been raised from 

 14 to 16 units commencing with the present academic year. 



Charles W. Porter, who received the Ph. D. degree from the University of 

 California in May, has returned as head of the college work in chemistry. 

 H. iW. Stucki has retired on account of ill health and has been succeeded as 

 assistant agronomist by Howard Maughan and he in turn by N. I. Butt of the 

 class of 1915. John Stewart retired at the end of the college year to engage in 

 commercial work. 



Lewis A. Merrill, for many years agronomist, but subsequently engaged in 

 commercial work, was killed June 1 in an automobile accident in Salt Lake 

 City. He was a graduate of the college in 1895 and had also studied at the 

 Iowa State College and the Ohio State University. He had been in charge 

 of farmers' institutes and agricultural extension work in Utah, giving special 

 attention to dry farming, and had been professor of animal husbandry in 

 Brigham Young University, editor of several Utah agricultural publications, 

 and prominently associated with the National Dry Farming Congress. He was 

 41 years of age. 



Vermont University and Station. — Walter H. Crockett, for many years editor 

 of several Vermont papers, and for some time oflicial reporter for the legisla- 

 ture, has been appointed editor of university publications, including those of 

 the college of agriculture, the station, and the extension service. G. C. Cun- 

 ningham, since 1910 associate plant pathologist, has been appointed plant 

 pathologist for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. 



Washington College and Station. — Dr. J. W. Kalkus, assistant veterinarian, 

 has been appointed veterinarian of the station, vice Dr. S. B. Nelson, who will 

 devote his entire time to his college duties and the secretaryship of the Cascade 

 International Live Stock Association. 



Agriculture in the New York Constitutional Convention. — An agricultural con- 

 ference was held in Albany May 25 to discuss the question of securing the 

 recognition of agriculture as a broad and fundamental i^hase of the State's 

 work and the inclusion in the new constitution of a clause defining the scope 

 and work of the State Department of Agriculture. The conference was the 

 result of a call by the State agricultural advisory board, and later broadened 

 by an additional call from the commissioner of agriculture to cover practically 

 all of the agricultural interests of the State. Among the various activities 

 represented were the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, the New York State Experiment Station, the secondary agricultural 

 schools, the state departments of agriculture and education, the grange, the 



