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Montana Station.^-B. W. Whitlock, for the past four years superintemlent of 

 the State grain laboratory of the station, has resigned to accept a position as 

 Federal grain supervisor with headquarters at Salt Lake City. E. W. Jahnke, 

 assistant in the laboratory, has been appointed superintendent 



Nevada University and Station, — Dr. Walter E. Clark, head of the depart- 

 ment of political science of the College of the City of New York, has l)een 

 appointed president, to take effect January 1, 1918. James B. McNair has been 

 appointed assi.stant chemist in the station. 



A joint study of poi-sonous plants has been arranged. The department of 

 range management will take up the study of methods of handling live stock 

 on the range for the prevention of losses due to poisonous plants. The veteri- 

 narian will study the characteristic symptoms of poisoning by various plants 

 and will make post-mortem examinations of poisoned animals to determine the 

 character of the injury caused by plant poi.sons. The department of chemistry 

 will attempt to isolate the poison and to determine the part of the plant In 

 which poisonous matter is most abundant and the stage of plant growth at which 

 injury is most certain to occur. 



New Hampshire College. — A. \V. Richardson, instructor In poultry industry at 

 the University of Maine, has been api>ointed assistant professor in charge of the 

 poultry department, vice U. V. Mitchell. J. R. Hepler. of the Wisconsin Uni- 

 versity and Station, has been appointed assistant professor of horticulture, and 

 H. F. Depew assistant In dairying. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — F. C. Minkler, professor of animal hus- 

 bandry and animal husbandman, director of the short ciiurses ir agriculture, 

 and live-.stock connnissioner for the State Department of Agriculture, has re- 

 signed to accept a position In charge of live stock on a private estate in the 

 State. 



Cornell "University and Station. — School and Soriety states that on account of 

 the financial uncertainty caused by the war. a temjwniry rule has been adopted 

 making all terminable appointments In the instruction staff for next year 

 effective for one year only. Heretofore, Instructors and assistant profes-sors 

 have been appointed for terms of from one to five years. 



A. R. Mann has been appointed dean of the College of Agriculture and 

 director of the station. 



Chas. H. Tuck, who has been absent on leave since January, 191G. to engage 

 in agricultural rxiilorations in Manchuria for an American syndicate, has 

 resigned and has been 8uccee<led by M. C. liurritt as professor of extension 

 teaching and vice director of extension. Other promotions Include J. R. 

 Schramm as professor of botany, R. H. Wheeler as professor of extension 

 teaching, and H. O. Buckman as professor of soil technology. 



Ohio State University and Station. — Frank Beach, assistant In horticultural 

 extension at Purdue University, has been appointed specialist In horticulture 

 in tlie university beginning July 1. 



In the station Horatio Markley has resigned from the board of control to 

 take charge of fair exhibits, vice F. M. Lutts, who has been appointed a 

 superintendent of exi»eriment farms. James Devol, of Marietta, has been ap- 

 pointed to the board of control to succeed Mr. Markley. Other appointments 

 include the following: William H. Alexander, section director of the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, as cllmatologlst ; Firman E. Bear, of the College of Agri- 

 culture, as associate In soil technology (nonresident) ; J. T. Parsons, assistant 

 in soil technology ; O. I. Snapp, assistant In soils ; J. R. Stear, as.slstant en- 

 tomologist; I. P. Lewis, field assistant In horticulture; and M. O. Bugby, S. C. 

 Hnrtman, and W. J. Smith, superintendents of experiment farms. 



