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New Jersey College and Stations. — Recent appointments include William H. 

 Hamilton as assistant State leader in farm demonstration, R. F. Poole as 

 research assistant in plant pathology, and Louis Schwartz, as assistant chemist. 

 Frank O. Fitts, assistant chemist, and Miss Nevada S. Evans, assistant seed 

 analyst, have resigned. 



Cornell TTniversity and Station. — Dr. A. W. Gilbert, profes.sor of plant breed- 

 ing, who has been on leave of absence for graduate work in rural economics 

 at Harvard University, has resigned and accepted an appointment with the 

 Bo.ston Cliamber of Commerce. Donald K. Tressler, assistant in agricultural 

 chemistry, has resigned to accept a position with the Bureau of Soils of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Ohio State University and Station. — Following a faculty ruling permitting 

 students to withdraw from tlie university with full credit to take positions on 

 farms, approximately 600 students have left for this purpose. Of these 414 

 are from the college of agriculture and the remainder chiefly from the arts 

 college. 



An additional experiment farm is to be located in Belmont County in the 

 near future. 



Oregon College and Station. — The forty-eighth annual commencement wag 

 held June 4, 281 gr:iiluates receiving degrees. There were al.so 101 absent on 

 military or civil duty connected with the war, who were graduated in absentia. 



A grain grading course for farmers and wheat dealers was held under the 

 auspices of the farm crops department .Tune 7 to 14. The purpose was to 

 acquaint growers and others interested with the new Fetleral grain standardi- 

 zation rules and afford training in classifying and grading northwestern 

 grains. 



E. L. Westover, a graduate of the Kansas College with experience In the 

 organization of l>reeding associations in Minne.^otn and Wisconsin, has been 

 appointed cooperative extension spofinlist in dairy liusbandry, vice W. A. Barr 

 resigned to become a county agent in .Vrizona. I>. E. Ricliards. foreman of the 

 college live stock farm, has been appointed instructor in animal husbandry. 

 R. I. Scoville, of the dairy department, and (Jeo. F. Moznette, of tlie liepartment 

 of entomology, have resigned to accept appointments with the V. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. .John T. Bregger of the Michigan College, and Frank H. 

 I.athrop, of the Ohio State University, have been appointed teaching fellow 

 in botany and research assistant In entomology, respectively. It is reportetl 

 that over 60 members of the faculty have resigne<i to accept positions in other 

 institutions or in the Federal service during the present college year. 



Pennsylvania College and Station.— Harold Williamson, herdsman for three 

 years, was killed in France recently while serving witli a CauMdian regiment. 

 F'. S. P>aker, assistant agronomist, resigned April 1 ; A. A. Hansen, instructor 

 in botany, May 1 ; G. A. Meckstroth, assistant in botany, June 1; and I. J. 

 Bibby, instructor in dairy husbandry, June 21. Recent appointments effective 

 July 1 include C. G. McBride as assistant professor of agricultural extension, 

 C. F. Preston as assistant professor of farm organization extension, and Miss 

 Edna B. MacNaughton and Miss Aurelia B. Potts, as instructors in home 

 economics extension. .7. S. Owens has been appointed assistant in experimental 

 agronomy. efl><tive June 13. 



Porto Rico Insular Station. — On March 3, under the provisions of the new 

 organic act for Porto Kico, the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture was 

 dissolved and the management of the station passed into the bands of the 

 Department of Agriculture and Labor, of which Manuel Caniuiias is commis- 

 sioner. 



