NOTES. 



Alabama Canebrake Station. — J. M. Burgess, associate professor of dairying 

 at Cleiuson College, lias been appointed director beginning about December 1. 



California "University. — Several special sbort courses are being offered at 

 Davis and Riverside on gas tractors, and at Davis to practical cheese makers on 

 improved methods in cheese making. 



New York State Station. — James E. Mensching, of the Pennsylvania Insti- 

 tute of Animal Nutrition, has been appointed associate agronomist to succeed 

 R. C. Collison, promoted to agronomist and given leave of absence for post- 

 graduate work at Columbia University for the year. 



Ohio State University and Station. — Vernon H. Davis, professor of horticul- 

 ture, has resigned to become director of the nevr State bureau of markets. 



At the station Thomas L. Guyton and Jacob R. Stear have been appointed 

 assistants in entomology. J. T. Parsons has been appointed assistant in soils. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — W. L. Carlyle has resigned as dean and 

 director to engage in business in Calgary, Alberta. President J. W. Cantwell 

 has been designated acting director of the station. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — A frame building 25 by 45 feet 

 is being erected for the use of the Institiite. It will contain stalls and other 

 appliances for the digestion and metabolism experiments carried on in connec- 

 tion with the investigations with the respiration calorimeter and will also 

 afford storage for the feeding stuffs used. 



I^Iark C. Lewis, a 1917 graduate of the college, has been appointed assistant 

 in animal nutrition, vice William H. Matthews, resigned to enter the military 

 service. 



Tennessee Station. — The selection by the State commission of a site of 680 

 acres near Columbia in Maury County for the Middle Tennessee substation has 

 been accepted by the county court of that county, which has appropriated ap- 

 proximately $100,000 for the purchase of the property. Another fund of $100,000 

 for buildings and a maintenance fund is available under the State legislation 

 previously referred to (E. S. R., 37, p. 198). 



Work has been begun on the new dairy barn on the Cherokee Farm of the 

 main station. This is to cost .^G.noO, including two silos and accommodations for 

 about 30 cows. 



Utah Station. — The dairy barn has been I'enovated and additional equip- 

 ment installed, including a new milk room. The poultry department has re- 

 cently completed two semimonitor and two shed-roof poultry houses, which will 

 accommodate about 400 birds and cost approximately $700. The department of 

 meteorology has installed a complete set of meteorological instruments. 



H. J. Maughan has resigned as assistant agronomist to engage in ranching 

 in Wyoming, and A. O. Larson, as assistant entomologist, to accept a position in 

 the high school at Manhattan, Mont. 



Vermont University and Station. — H. E. Bartram, assistant plant pathologist 

 in the station, resigned October 31 to begin demonstration work in plant path- 

 ology in connection with the extension service. 



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