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Arizona "triiiversity and Station. — The new agricultural building has just been 

 completed at a cost of $165,000. This building contains the offices of the presi- 

 dent and business manager of the university, the dean and director of the col- 

 lege of agi'iculture and station, and the departments of agronomy, horticulture, 

 animal husbandry, agricultural chemistry, plant breeding, home economics, agri- 

 cultural extension, and archaeology. 



P. W. Moore has been appointed fellow in agricultural chemistry and T. E. 

 Schreiner, of Cornell University, to take charge of the poultry work. 



Arkansas University and Station. — J. B. Rather, formerly of the Texas Station, 

 has been appointed head of the department of agricultural chemistry in the uni- 

 versity and station, with E. G. Will as assistant. H. E. Truax has resigned to 

 accept a position with the States Relations Service of this Department in its 

 studies of agricultural instruction and has been succeeded as assistant in horti- 

 culture by C. H. Hurd. F. H. Herzer has been appointed assistant in animal 

 husbandry for special work in dairying, and Ruth A. Peck, head of the depart- 

 ment of home economics to succeed Miss Sarah Pettit. 



Kentucky Station. — D. D. Slade, superintendent of the poultry farm, has been 

 transferred to extension work. N. R. Elliott has been appointed assistant in 

 horticulture, and D. H. Wilkins, research assistant in poultry, beginning Septem- 

 ber 1. 



Mississippi Station. — H. K. Gayle, a county agent in Kentucky, has been ap- 

 pointed animal husbandman. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — Recent appointments include the following : 

 Lloyd S. Riford, assistant dairy husbandman and instructor in dairy husbandry, 

 vice A. S. Cook, resigned ; Roy F. Irvin, instructor in poultry husbandry, vice 

 C. E. Brett, resigned ; Dr. John W. Shive, plant pathologist ; J. Marshall Hunter, 

 inspector for the Live Stock Commission; Carl R. Woodward, librarian and 

 editor ; William S. Porte, assistant in plant breeding ; Orville C. Schultz, assist- 

 ant in plant physiologj' ; S. A. Waksman and Roland E. Curtis, assistants in soil 

 fertility ; William H. Martin, assistant in plant pathology, vice George W. Mar- 

 tin, resigned ; W. S. Krout, assistant in plant pathology ; A. C. Foster, seed an- 

 alyst, vice Robert W. Schmidt, resigned ; and Homer C. Carney, assistant seed 

 analyst. 



John H. Voorhees and Charles M. Arthur, extension specialists in agronomy 

 and market methods respectively, have resigned, the latter to become instructor 

 In agricultural extension in the Pennsylvania College. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — J. E. Mensching, J. E. Isenberg, 

 and E. W. Schmidt have been appointed assistants in animal nutrition. F. C, 

 Dose has resigned. 



Porto Rico College and Station.— Samuel D. Gray has been appointed professor 

 of entomology in the college, vice R. I. Smith, who has assumed charge of the 

 Boston office for the foreign cotton quarantine against the pink boll worm of 

 Egj'pt and other countries. Policarpio Gonzalez has been appointed assistant in 

 agriculture. His work will include the instruction of rural teachers in 

 agriculture. 



Elmer W. Brandes has been appointed plant pathologist in the station. 



Washington Station. — Dr. J. S. Caldwell, botanist of the Alabama College and 

 Station, has been appointed in charge of the fruit by-products investigations. 

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