898 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol. 37 



Cornell University.— The college of agriculture has been assigned by the 

 State Vocational E lucution Board the task of training teachers of agriculture 

 and directors and supervisors of agricultural subjects. The training of teachers 

 of home economics is to be divided between the college, the State Teachers' 

 College at Albany, and the State Normal School at Buffalo. It is expected that 

 eventually about $T.'>.000 of the Federal funds will be available to the college 

 annually, and that considerable graduate work will be developed by the depart- 

 ment of rural education. 



D. B. Carrick has resigned as instructor in pomology to accept a position In 

 the Bureau of Markets of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Oregon College and Station. — A pruning school was held at the college the 

 second week in December, with lectures aud demonstrations in the forenoons of 

 each week and pruning work in the nearby orchards in the afternoons. Some 

 work on spraying was also carried on. 



A joint antismut campaign has been conducted by the departments of botany, 

 plant pathology, and farm crops, in cooperation witli the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture as part of the plan to Increase food production. 



Ava B. Milam, head of the domestic science department, has been appointed 

 dean of the s<-hool of home economics. Ralph McBurney, instructor in bac- 

 teriologj-, has been commissioned first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the 

 Army Medical Department. Chas. S. Brewster, of the Purdue University and 

 Station, has been apiwlnted instructor in poultry husbandry, vice A. C. Mc- 

 Culloch, now engaged in extension work in New Brunswick. 



Other appointments include V. D. Chapi>ell, instructor of dairy manufactures 

 at the Iowa College, as assistant in dairy manufactures; L. W. Wing, as in- 

 structor in dairying; D. K. Tressler, of the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and E. II. I)ougherty as instructors in agricultural chem- 

 istry ; Bernard F. Slicchan as instructor in farm crops; L. F. Lingle as assistant 

 profe.ssor and assistant in horticultural products; H. C. Woodham as Instructor 

 in horticulture; and E. .T. Fjeldsteil as instructor and assistant in animal 

 husbandry, vice G. U. Samson. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Plans have l>een approved for a com- 

 mercial truck garden of about 10 acres. The work is to be done by students 

 and is Intended to afford an insight Into commercial truck operations. 



II. A. Andrec. assistant professt)r In agronomy in charge of farm economics, 

 has resigned to become head of the department of agricultural engineering at 

 the Texas College. C. M. Arthur has resigned as instructor In apricultunU ex- 

 tension to take up work connected with problems of distribution and marketing 

 of farm products carried on with the Pennsylvania Committee on Public Safety. 

 Dr. H. L. Fulmer, assistant professor of bacteriology, is now in military service. 

 L. P. McCann. instructor in animal husbandry, resigned January 1, 1918. 



Dr. D. S. Fox, assistant In farm management at the Montana Station, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of farm management. Other appointments 

 Include E. L. Nixon as extension plant pathologist, C. A. Hunter as assistant 

 professor of bacteriology and assistant bacteriologist, M. W. Lisse as as'sistant 

 professor of agricultural chemistry, E. .1. Klepper as assistant in botany, Chas. 

 Cummings as instructor In dairy husbandry, and E. J. Holben as assistant In 

 exporinnMital agronomy. 



Texas College and Station. — At the special .session of the legislature, the acts 

 establishing a West Texas Agricultural College and a Northeast Texas Junior 

 A. and M. College were repealetl. The John Tarleton Agricultural College at 

 Stephenville and the Grubbs Vocational College at Arlington, junior colleges 

 under the board of directors of the Texas A. and M. College, opened September 



