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Porto Rico Federal Station. — The Porto Rico legislature, at its last session, 

 appropriated $1,000,000 for aid in the growing of food crops and an extensive 

 campaign is under way. About forty rural teachers are actively engaged in 

 all sections of the island and a great many seeds of economic crops have been 

 bought and distributed. Cane planters have been induced to plant or to allow 

 their laborers to grow beans in the young cane, so that whereas last year over 

 $800,000 worth of beans was imported, beans have already been produced for 

 export. 



Rhode Island Station. — Howard A. Johns, a 1917 graduate of the Pennsyl- 

 vania College, has been appointed a.s-sistant in chemistry beginning July 1. 



South Carolina College and Station. — The animal husbandry and dairying 

 divi-sion has been separated into divisions of dairying and animal husbandry. 

 R L. Shields continues as chief of the animal husbandry division and W. W. 

 Fitzpatrick, dairy expert in extension work, has been appointed chief of the 

 division of dairying. 



G. M. Armstrong has been appointed instructor in botany in the college and 

 assistant in the station. A new position of research assistant has been estab- 

 lished in the division of horticulture. 



Tennessee University. — H. D. Tate has been succeeded by W. A. Schoenfeld 

 as assistant director of the division of extension, and he in turn by C. E. Brehm 

 as specialist in marketing. 



Utah College and Station. — Plans have been completed for the new dairy 

 building and are under way for some new feeding sheds for experimental work 

 with steers. Dr. C. E. Davis has resigned as assistant professor of chemistry 

 to accept a position as rese.irch chemLst with a commercial firm. 



Virginia College and Station. — E. R. Hodgson, associate agronomist, has 

 resi;;nfd to become specialist in agronomy in the extension division and has 

 been succeedetl by T. K. Wolfe, the assistant agronomist G. S. Ralston has 

 been appointed tieUl horticulturist, to have charge of the several experimental 

 orchards in the State. 



Wyoming University and Station. — W. A. Albrecht, of the Missouri Uni- 

 yerslty and Station, has been apopinted associate agronomist and acting head 

 of the department of agronomy, beginning July 1. 



