NOTES. 



Arkansas University and Station. — DeForest Hungerford, instructor in soils 

 in the University of Minnesota and assistant in agricultural chemistry in the 

 station, has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy and assistant 

 agronomist. 



Purdue University and Station. — Recent appointments include R. A. Lamson, 

 of the Idaho University and Station, as instructor in dairying and the following 

 assistants: O. H. Anderson, in dairying; G. L. Ogle and R. O. Bausman, in 

 creamery inspection; S. S. Cromer, in education; C. H. Clink, in serum pro- 

 duction ; L. R. George, in animal pathology ; T. W. Harvey,' in county agent 

 work ; W. E. Lommel, in horticulture ; W. R. Skelly. in farm crops and agricul- 

 tural botany; W. L. Elser, of the Ohio Station, in farm management demon- 

 strations; L. S. Robertson, in farm efficiency; F. M. Shanklin, in young 

 people's club work ; and L. L. Jones, in poultry work. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Estimates for 1915 appropriations have 

 been submitted for $313,,30O for maintenance and additional appropriations as 

 follows: Microbiology laboratory, $67,500; for the completion of the agricul- 

 tural building, $122,500; new dormitory, $40,000; enlargement of the power 

 plant, $30,000; and minor improvements, $10,000. 



The trustees have authorized the beginning of investigations in microbiology, 

 in which projects connected with milk and soils are to be taken up, and agri- 

 <;ultural economics. The emplos^ment of an assistant in the veterinary depart- 

 ment, to deal especially with the problems connected with bacillary white 

 diarrhea and contagious abortion of cows, has also been authorized. 



North Dakota College.— J. R. Keithley, of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 this Department, has been appointed professor of dairying. 



Ohio State University. — A section of greenhouses, 30 by 100 feet, is under 

 construction, and will be followed by two vegetable houses, each 45 by 250 

 feet, naaking about 8,000 square feet under glass. The entire greenhouse will 

 be divided into a number of special compartments, including a palm house, a 

 head house, a vegetable house, and a students' laboratory. 



A combined 6-year agricultural veterinary course is under consideration. The 

 first 3 3'ears would be siieut in the college of agriculture and the remainder in 

 the college of veterinary medicine, degrees being granted from both colleges. 



A state biological survey, suggested by the Ohio Academy of Science, is 

 being undertaken with a state appropriation of $2,500, a number of the colleges 

 of the State cooperating. The preparation of duplicate material and separate 

 collections for the colleges and other educational institutions is the primary 

 feature of the work. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Dr. H. P. Armsby, director of the Insti- 

 tute of Animal Nutrition, has been relieved of all undergraduate instruction 

 and will devote his entire time to research in animal nutrition and to advanced 

 graduate instruction. 

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