NOTES, 



Delaware College and Station. — Wolf Hall, the new $280,000 building which 

 will house all the activities of the agricultural department and temporarilj' the 

 college departments of chemistry and biology, is practically completed and 

 will be occupied in September. 



Frank A. Hays, Ph. D. (Iowa State College, 1917), has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of animal husbandry. Mark L. Nichols, assistant professor 

 of agronomy and assistant agronomist, and Raymond R. Pailthorp, assistant 

 professor of horticulture and assistant horticulturist, have been transferred 

 entirely from station to college work. 



Idaho University and Station. — Appropriations made by the last legislature 

 for the station for the present biennium are as follows : For the further 

 study of insect pests troublesome to alfalfa and clover seed producers, $4,000; 

 for emergency calls in the investigation of plant diseases, insect pests, and 

 soil troubles, $1,200; for soil survey work in cooperation with the Bureau of 

 Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, $1,200; for the erection of additional 

 greenhouses, $4,-500 ; and for tile-draining a portion of the university farm and 

 fencing the farm, $2,500. In addition, the Aberdeen substation received $5,000, 

 that at Caldwell $7,800, and that at Sandpoint $5,000. 



The segregation of 160 acres of State lands was authorized for use in a study 

 of problems concerned with high altitude agriculture. A substation, to be 

 known as the high altitude substation, is to be established in a region whose 

 altitude is 6,000 feet or more. An appropriation of $3,-500 is made for the 

 biennium, and the citizens of the community in which it is located are obligated 

 to raise a like amount for the erection of buildings. 



The irrigation work of the station has been transferred from Gooding to Cald- 

 well. This transfer was made necessary by the approaching expiration of the 

 lease under which the Gooding substation has been operated since 1909, and 

 the resignation of Superintendent J. S. Welch, who is now connected with 

 the Maori Agricultural College of New Zealand. 



From a State appropriation made for the erection of new buildings at the 

 university, the State Board of Education has authorized the use of $25,000 

 for the erection of a new horse barn, hog and sheep barns, and r, seed house. 

 The completion of the. south wing of the university administration building 

 and the erection of an annex to the engineering building have also been 

 authorized. 



Dr. Ernest H. Lindley, professor of philosophy at the University of Indiana 

 since 1902, has been appointed president, succeeding Dr. M. A. Brannon. who 

 became president of Beloit College on July 1. Dr. C. H. Shattuck, professor 

 of forestry and forester, resigned June 30. Dr. A. R. Hahner. instructor in 

 veterinary science, resigned last April and has been succeeded temporarily by 

 Dr. H. C. Luce. Other appointments include H. W. Hulbert as instructor and 

 assistant in farm crops, and A. C. Baltzer as instructor in dairy husbandry 

 and assistant dairy husbandman, 



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