1917] NOTES. 197 



Michigan College and Station. — Ezra Levin has been appointed muck crop 

 specialist with lieadquarters at Kalamazoo. His time is to be divided between 

 research and extension work. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A chair of comparative pathology and 

 bacteriology has be^'u established in the veterinary division, to which Dr. Clif- 

 ford P. Fitch, assistant professor of pathology and bacteriology in the New 

 York State Veterinary College, has been appointed beginning August 1. Dr. 

 Fitch will also become chairman of the veterinary division of the animal in- 

 dustry group, succeeding Dr. M. H. Reynolds, who will be in charge of veterin- 

 ary .sanitation. 



Philip A. Anderson, instructor in animal husbandry, has been appointed in 

 charge of a new section of meats in the animal industry group. Alice L. 

 Edwards has been appointed assistant professor of nutrition beginning August 1. 



John T. Stewart, chief of the division of agricultural engineering, has been 

 granted leave of absence to accept a commission in the engineering corps of 

 the U. S. Army. Louise Jensen has resigned as mycologist of the station and 

 has been succeeded* by F. 3ean Maclnnis of the Illinois Station. Phil C. Bing of 

 the Wisconsin University and Station has succeeded L. G. Hood as assistant 

 editor. Mildreth J. Haggard has resigned as assistant chemist in animal 

 nutrition. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The contract has been let for the agri- 

 cultural engineering building at a cost of $132,450. 



The department of animal husbandry is experimenting with various crops 

 for hog and sheep pastures. Rape, cane, sweet clover, and oats are being com- 

 pared with the blue grass and alfalfa. 



New Hampshire College. — Ralph D. Hetzel, director of the extension service 

 of the Oregon College, has been appointed president beginning about August 15. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — W. J. Car.son, professor of dairy husbandry 

 and dairy hu.sbandman, L. S. Kiford, instructor in dairy husbandry and assist- 

 ant in the State Station, Thurlow C. Nelson, biologist in charge of oyster in- 

 vestigations, and Howard F. Huber, extension specialist in horticulture, have 

 resigned. Wm. M. Regan has been appointed dairy husbandman, and Willes 

 K. Combs, a.ssistant dairy husbandman. Other appointments include J. T. 

 Barlow as research assistant in plant physiology, Miss Jessie G. Fiske as assist- 

 ant seed analyst, C. S. Clarkson as as.sistant chemist, D. A. Coleman, Ph. D., 

 as assistant agronomist, and H. M. Biekart as florist. 



New York State Station. — A. J. Flume, assistant chemist, has resigned to take 

 up commercial work and is succeeded by Walter L. Kulp, formerly assistant in 

 bacteriology at the Michigan College and recently engaged in bacteriological 

 work in connection with hospitals in Bo.ston, Mass. 



Oregon College. — A bequest estimated at from $25,000 to $40,000 has been 

 made to the college by the late J. T. Apperson, a member of the board of regents 

 since its establishment, for use as a permanent loan fund to students working 

 their way through college. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Recent changes in title and promotions 

 include the following: As professor, A. W. Cowell. land.scape art; as associate 

 professors, C. E. Myers, plant breeding, and C. F. Noll and J. W. White, ex- 

 perimental agronomy ; as assistant professors. C. R. Anderson, forestry, S. I. 

 Bechdel, dairy husbandry, J. R. Bechtel, vegetable gardening, A. F. Mason, 

 horticultural extension, L. O. Overholts, Ph.D., botany, E. I. Wilde, floriculture. 

 F. N. Fagan, pomology, and C. L. Goodling, farm management (and superin- 

 tendent of farms) ; and as instructors, H. P. Cooper and D. C. Wimer, agronomy, 

 L. P. McCann, animal husbandry, R. S. Spray, botany, J. S. Gardner, plant 

 breeding, and L. D. Jesseman and A. F. Yeager, pomology. E. R. Hitchner has 



