NOTES, 



Arizona University. — The extension service lias begun a monthly publication 

 known as the Arizona Farm Advisor and designed to furnish popular informa- 

 tion on timely farm topics. The first issue is devoted to the Arizona farmer's 

 bookshelf, and gives a list of publications recommended. Other numbers give 

 information as to the annual farmers' short course held January 4-16, soil 

 fertility, control of codling moth, and the worlc of boys' and girls' clubs. 



A. L. Paschal has been appointed farm demonstrator for Cochise and Santa 

 Cruz counties. 



Connecticut State Station. — D. F. Jones, instructor in horticuliure at Syracuse 

 University and formerly connected vpith the Arizona Station, has been ap- 

 pointed plant breeder vice H. K. Hayes, whose resignation has been noted. 



Illinois University and Station. — ^A laboratory for cheese making, butter mak- 

 ing, and separating, has recently been fitted up. The old stock-judging pavilion 

 has been converted into a combined laboratory for animal nutrition and a 

 dairy laboratory, holding about 140, with smaller laboratories and offices. 



Dr. James Harvey Pettit, professor of soil fertility in the college of agricul- 

 ture and chief of soil fertility in the station, died December 30, 1914, at Pasa- 

 dena, Cal., at the age of 38 years. Doctor Pettit was graduated at Cornell 

 University in 1900 and received the Ph. D. degree at Gottingen in 1909. He has 

 been associated with the university and station since 1901. His work is sum- 

 marized in a recent number of the Illinois Agriculturist as follows : 



" Dr. Pettit's distinctive service has been in connection with the soil fertility 

 investigations, he having been identified with this work almost from its begin- 

 ning at the university. He has made various important contributions to the 

 advancement of this subject, particularly in connection with its chemical 

 aspects. In the experiment station he was in direct charge of the analytical 

 work of the soil survey. As an instructor in the college as well as in his exten- 

 sion service over the State he was an ardent teacher of the principles of 

 permanent agriculture." 



Missouri University. — James G. Watson, of the extension service of the Iowa 

 College, has been appointed extension assistant professor of dairy husbandry, 

 beginning January 8. George W. Reavis, who has been for four years con- 

 nected with the office of the state superintendent of public instruction, has 

 been appointed supervisor of boys' and girls' clubs, beginning December 9, 1914. 



Montana College and Station. — C. C. Starring, horticulturist at the Hood 

 River substation in Oregon, has been appointed assistant horticulturist, begin- 

 ning Januai-y 1. 



Nevada University and Station. — The station library has been consolidated 

 with that of the university in the new library building, where, however, it 

 occupies a small room to itself. This transfer has permitted the fitting up of 

 the old station library room as a laboratoiy. 

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