1917] NOTES. 399 



required to appropriate not less than $500 for the support of the agent, while 

 the university will contribute not more than $750 a year for salary and 

 maintenance. 



Leaves of absence have been granted Howard Hackedorn, assistant professor 

 of animal husbandry, and C. R. Moulton, assistant professor of agricultural 

 chemistry, for a year's graduate work, and to E. M. McDonald, assistant profes- 

 sor of farm crops, who has entered a reserve officers' training camp. Resigna- 

 tions have been accepted of Roy Hastings, assistant in agricultural extension; 

 Thomas M. Olson, agricultural agent for Butler County ; Chester Pollock, dairy 

 cattle herdsman ; Walter E. Thrun, assistant in agricultural chemistry ; and 

 Willis B. Combs, a.ssistant in dairy husbandry. 



Recent appointments include the following: Carl Marsh, dairy cattle herds- 

 man; J. A. Machliss, assistant in soil survey; L. W. Morley, assistant in dairy 

 husbandry; Paul M. Roblnett, assistant in horticulture; Sarah Pettit, superin- 

 tendent of women's county home demonstration work ; Edward A. Livesay, 

 assistant county agent leader; John T. Stin?on, assistant in agricultural exten- 

 sion ; E. Roy Keller, assistant in boys' and girls' club work ; Mary E. Robin- 

 son, extension instructor in home economics; and Dr. F. W. Caldwell, extension 

 assistant professor of veterinary science. 



North Dakota College. — H. L. White, professor of physiological chemistry 

 and toxicology, has been appointed professor of biological chemistry in the 

 college of physicians and surgeons of the University of Southern California. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The station has recently completed a modem 

 two-story grain storage house. The upper story will be used for laboratory 

 work in plant breeding, seed selection, etc. The lower floor has six rooms, three 

 of them designed for storage rooms for small grains and equipped with special 

 appliances for fumigation, and the remainder are designed for a general receiv- 

 ing and work room, a machine room for the graders, ginners, etc., and a general 

 storage room, respectively. 



The station reports the resignation of Dr. C. K. Francis, chemist, B. A. 

 Ahrens, poultry husbandman and head of the poultry department, Henry L. 

 Thomson, head of the farm engineering department, and W. L. Fowler, animal 

 husbandman and head of the animal husbandry department. Harry Embleton 

 has been appointed professor of poultry husbandry and poultryman, and Dr. 

 Wallace Macfarlane has been transferred from assistant agronomist to station 

 chemist. Dr. L. L. Lewis, veterinarian and bacteriologist of the station and 

 dean of the veterinary school, has been granted six months' leave of absence 

 on account of ill health. 



Oregon College and Station. — Roy R. Graves, professor of dairying and dairy- 

 man, has resigned to accept a position with the Dairy Division of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. A. F. Kerr, of the Forest Service, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor of forestry. O. D. Center, director of extension of the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho, has been appointed director of extension to succeed R. D. 

 Hetzel, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



Wyoming Tlniversity. — Dr. Aven Nelson, professor of botany, has been ap- 

 pointed acting president. 



Federal Food Control Act. — This elaborate war measure was signed by Presi- 

 dent Wilson, August 10. Its object is expressed in the opening section as "to 

 assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the move- 

 ment, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer 

 and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equip- 

 ment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, hereafter 

 3n this act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, 



