798 EXPEEIMENT STATION KECORD. 



Willis II. Poar.son, assistant cLieuiist, have resigned. Miss Fannie F. Cooper 

 Las been appointed assistant in extension worls in home economics, and W. 

 Itaymnnd Stone orchard foreman. 



North Carolina Station. — C. W. Mitchell, of Anlander, has succeeded K. W. 

 Barnes as a nicuilior of the ;iovorning board of the station. 



North Dakota College and Station. — The recent legislature passed an act which 

 provides for a board of regents to have charge of all of the higher institutions 

 of learning in the State, including the normal schools, liecent appointees 

 to the board of trustees of the college and station include "Walter Reed of 

 Ameuia, F. Kindred of Hillsboro, and August Hanson of Fargo. 



Ohio State University and Station. — ^Arrangements have now been completed 

 with eight other colleges of the State for the five-year combination arts-agri- 

 cultural course (PI S. li., 30, p. 397), and several other institutions have the 

 plan under consideration. 



A bill is pending in the legislature for the establishment of a branch experi- 

 ment station on the university fanu with the dean of the college of agriculture 

 as associate director. The bill provides for experimental work in connection 

 with the courses given by the different departments, duplication of the station 

 work at Wooster being avoided. The expenses of the substation would be 

 defrayed from the university fund.?. 



Dean H. C. Price of the college of agriculture has resigned, effective July 1. 

 George Livingston, assistant professor of agronomy since 1911. has I'esigned 

 to become specialist in grain marketing in the Office of Markets of this 

 Department. 



Oklahoma Station. — Recent appointments include A. G. Weigel, assistant 

 chemist at the Massachusetts Station as assistant chemist, effective March 1, 

 and D. Glen Morgan as assistant chemist in the feed and fertilizer division. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — J. W. Park, assistant in animal 

 nutrition since 1912, has resigned to accept a position with the Office of Markets 

 of this Department. 



Virginia Station. — Dr. IT. S. Reed, plant pathologist and bacteriologist since 

 1908, has resigned to accept a similar position at the Citrus Station at River- 

 side, Cal., and has been succeeded by Dr. F. D. Fromme, assistant botanist at 

 the Indiana Station. 



Virginia Truck Station. — II. H. Zimmerly, instructor in horticulture in the 

 Pennsylvania College, has been appointed assistant horticulturist beginning 

 June 1. J. A. McClintock has been appointed assistant plant pathologist 

 beginning June 15. 



Seventh Graduate School of Agrieultiire. — The next session of the Graduiite 

 School of Agriculture, imder the auspices of the xissociation of the American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, will be held at the Massachu- 

 setts Agriculturiil College, Amherst, Mass., in July, 1916. The headquarters 

 of the school will be in the large agricultural building which is now being 

 erected on the campus. 



Agricultural Education at The Southern Conference for Education and Indus- 

 try. — The Southern Conference for Education and Industry, organized by the 

 merging of the forces represented by the Southern Educational Association and 

 The Conference for Education in the South, held a 4-day meeting at Chatta- 

 nooga, Teun., beginning April 27. 



The departments and special eoufei'ences of the preceding organizations were 

 organized into a small number of working bodies, such as committees of the 

 Southern Educational Council, and community, agricultural education, grain 

 growers', and live stock, fruit growers', bee culture, marketing, artisans', college, 

 teachers', country church, and teacher training conferences. 



