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engage in commercial work. R. W. Ruprecht, assistant chemist, has been 

 given a year's leave of absence for graduate vv'ork at Cornell University. 



The veterinary and poultry departments of the station are cooperating with 

 the college extension service in a campaign to eliminate bacillary white diarrhea 

 from the State. 



Michigan College and Station. — President J. L. Snyder has been appointed 

 president emeritus, and Dr. F. S. Kedzie acting president. O. F. Jensen has 

 resigned as assistant chemist to pursue graduate studies at the Iowa College. 

 E. J. Miller and E. F. Berger have been appointed assistant chemists. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — Charles H. Otis, Ph. D., instructor in 

 botany in the college of arts and sciences of Cornell University, has been 

 appointed assistant in botany and assistant botanist. 



Oklahoma College. — Dr. L. Charles Raiford of the department of chemistry of 

 the University of Chicago has been appointed professor of chemistry. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Work has been started by the experiment 

 station to determine the fertilizer needs of the Dekalb soils, which comprise 

 43 per cent of the area of the State. A preliminary test, made near Snow Shoe, 

 indicates that abandoned land, as well as virgin soil, responds well to the 

 application of lime. Pot experiments with this soil at the college show that 

 the prime needs are lime and phosphorus. The experiment will be continued 

 and field plats laid off on a larger scale next spring. 



R. U. Blasingame resigned August 1 as instructor in agronomy, and A. R, 

 Bechtel as instructor and assistant botanist, September 1. Recent appoint- 

 ments include the following: A. A. Borland as professor of daii-y husbandry 

 extension, beginning October 1 ; Miss M. Jane Newcomb as instructor in home 

 economics extension, beginning September 1 ; and beginning July 1 A. F. JIason, 

 instructor in horticultural extension, C. W. Clemmer, assistant in agricultural 

 extension, W. D. Swope, assistant in dairy husbandry, F. P. Weaver, trans- 

 ferred from instructor in agricultural chemistry to instructor in farm organi- 

 zation, H. D. Edmiston, transferred from assistant in experimental agricultural 

 chemistry to assistant in agricultural extension, and H. II. Kraybill, trans- 

 ferred from assistant in experimental agricultural chemistry to instructor in 

 agricultural chemistry. 



Texas College and Station. — Wilmon Newell, professor of entomology in the 

 college, entomologist in charge of the division of entomology in the station, and 

 ex-otiicio state entomologist, resigned October 1 to accept a position in Flor- 

 ida under the State Plant Act. The college and station work in entomology 

 have now been separated, and F. B. Paddock has been appointed entomologist 

 in charge of the division of entomology and state entomologist. O. K. Court- 

 ney, formerly assistant entomologist in the college, has been appointed as- 

 sistant entomologist in the station and assistant state entomologist. Louis 

 Wermelskirschen, of the Office of Cereal Investigations of this Department, has 

 been appointed agronomist beginning October 15. H. H. Jobson has been 

 granted two years' leave of absence, beginning November 1, to accept a position 

 as cotton expert with the Chinese Government. 



Washington College and Station. — H. W. Reough has been appointed agricul- 

 turist of Grant County with headquarters at Ephrata. R. L. Buchanan, as- 

 sistant in farm crops, has resigned to become county agent with headquarters 

 at Parkersburg, W. Va. 



The station has received a donation of $1,000 from William Anderson, of 

 Winthrop, for use in the investigation of the diseases of domestic animals. 



