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New members of the governing board include William Healy of Boise, J. A. 

 Lippincott of Idaho City, and J. A. Keefer of Shoshone. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Dr. Robert Graham, professor of veter- 

 inary science and head of the department of diseases of live stock in the 

 station, has been appointed professor of animal pathology and chief of animal 

 pathology in the Illinois University and Station. Dr. C. D. Bohannan, asso- 

 ciate professor of agricultural economics, R. C. Dabney, connected with the 

 inspection of bakery sanitation, R. B. Taylor, assistant chemist in the fer- 

 tilizer department, and J. T. Milligan, in charge of the egg laying contest, 

 have resigned. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A modem structure is to replace in the 

 near future the old stock barn which was recently burned. This building will 

 be of reinforced concrete and hollow tile, with the upper portion of frame and 

 Etucco. A new seed house is also to be erected. 



R, W. Thatcher has been appointed dean of the department of agriculture and 

 director of the station. Dr. E. M. Freeman has been appointed dean of the 

 college of agriculture within the department. 



Dr. R. A. Gortner, associate professor of biochemistry, has been appointed 

 professor in this subject and chief of the division in the college and station. 

 R. A. Dutcher, assistant professor of agricultural chemistry at the Oregon Col- 

 lege, and C. A. Morrow, professor of chemistry in the Nebraska Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, have been appointed assistant professors of agricultural biochemistry, 

 effective September 15. S. D. Wilkins and V. C. Growl have been appointed 

 assistants in the division of animal nutrition; A. J. Wuertz, assistant In 

 agricultural biochemistry, and J. E. Chapman, assistant in soils. 



C. W. Howard, associate professor of economic entomology and assistant ento- 

 mologist, has resigned to become professor of biology in Canton Christian 

 College. China. W. F. I.usk. assistant professor of agricultural education, has 

 accepted a similar appointment in Cornell University, and John Parker a 

 position in agronomy in the Kansas College. Miss Feme Peck, instructor in 

 agricultural botany and seed analyst, has been appointed State seed analyst 

 in Nebraska, and has been succeeded by A. H Larson. 



Leave of absence for six months has been granted to Miss Josephine T. Berry, 

 chief of the division of home economics, to become assistant director of voca- 

 tional education and director of home economics with the Federal Vocational 

 Education Board, and for one year to Miss Grace I. Williams, assistant pro- 

 fessor of home economics, for graduate study. Miss Anna E. Bayha and Mis3 

 Olive N. Tuttle have resigned as instructors in home economics. 



W. L. Oswald, as.sistant professor of agricultural botany and assistant 

 botanist and plant pathologist, has accepted an appointment with the Bureau 

 of Markets of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to assist in a survey of the 

 seed situation. Francis Jager, chief of the division of apiculture, has been 

 appointed a member of the Red Cross mission to Serbia. Miss Alice McFeely 

 has been appointed assistant editor of station bulletins. 



At Crookston, T. R. Sewall, superintendent of buildings and grounds, and 

 Mrs. T. R. Sewall, Instructor in domestic science, resigned July 31. Miss 

 Hazel Rockwood, a 1917 graduate of the college, has been appointed instructor 

 In home economics, and A. M. Folker instructor in farm engineering and superin- 

 tendent of buildings and grounds. 



Missouri University and Station. — A new position has been established In 

 the extension work, known as the woman county home demonstration agent 

 Demonstrations are to be conducted cooperatively by the agricultural extension 

 service, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the county. Each county is 



