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Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. — The station has i-ecently been provided 

 with a buUfling of reinforced concrete construction, which will house the busi- 

 ness offices, the ofRces of the agricultural department, the office and laboratory 

 of the entomological department, and the libi'ary. The building offers increased 

 floor space to accommodate the growth of the station, and also provides fire- 

 proof quarters for the station library and entomological collections, which 

 were lieretofore housed in a frame building. 



Idaho University. — The department of forestry has been segregated from the 

 college of arts and sciences, as an independent school. F. G. Miller, head of 

 the department of forestry in the Washington College, has been appointed 

 dean of the school and professor of forestry. 



A modern horse barn 40 by 112 feet and a sheep barn 82 by 80 feet are being 

 erected. 



Purdue University and Station. — F. G. King, associate in animal husbandry, 

 has received a commission as captain in the National Army. 



Iowa Station. — Dr. A. W. Dox, chief of the section of chemistry, has been 

 granted leave of absence to accept an appointment as captain in the food 

 division of the Sanitary Corps of the National Army. 



Kansas College and Station. — Among the members of the staff engaged in 

 military service are the following: E. N. Wentworth, professor of animal 

 breeding; H. B. Walker, associate professor of irrigation and drainage engi- 

 neering; Robert Schmidt assistant in botany; Herschel Scott, fellow in soils; 

 Ernest E. Dale, fellow in horticulture; and C. E. Aubel, fellow in animal 

 husbandry. 



Recent appointments include IC. J. T. Ekblaw as professor of farm enginein-- 

 ing, A. C. Hartenbower as superintendent of institutes and extension schools, 

 John H. Parker as assistant professor of farm crops, L. H. Fairchild as 

 assistant in dairy husbandry, H. F. Lienhardt as instructor In bacteriologj'. 

 W. F. Pickett as assistant in plant propagation and foreman of the greenhouse, 

 •E. C. Thurber as hog herdsman. H. H. Amos as assistant in poultry husbandry, 

 W. L. French as specialist in agriculture in the home study department. Miss 

 Lena L. Price as research assistant to the director of the station, W. S. 

 Stevens as associate in stock remedy analysis, and William E. Paterson as 

 specialist in dairy husbandry in the division of extension. 



Kentucky University. — Dr. Frank Le Kond McVey, president of the University 

 of North Dakota since 1909. has been appointed president. 



Maine University and Station. — Leave of absence has been granted for the 

 duration of the war to Drs. Raymond Pearl and F. M. Surface, for service 

 with the statistical department of the U. S. Food Administration. Dr. H. R. 

 Willard, of the university, and John R. Miner, of the station, are also associated 

 in this work. 



Massachusetts College. — E. L. Quaife, assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry, has resigned to accept a position in the extension work in animal 

 husbandry in the Iowa College. 



Minnesota University and Station. — Clyde II. Bailey, cereal technologi.st and 

 assistant professor of agricultural chemistry, who has been on leave of absence 

 as chemist for the State Board of Grain Appeals, has returned as associate 

 professor of agi'icultural biochemistry. Simon Marcovitch, assistant entomolo- 

 gist, has resigned to become head of the department of biology at the National 

 Farm School of Pennsylvania. 



Mississippi College. — J. Wendell Bailey, assistant professor in the general 

 science scliool. has accepted an appointment with the Bureau of Entomology 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and is engaged in studies of insects 

 affecting cereal and forage crops at Tempo, Ariz, 



