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Pennsylvania College and Station. — Among recent appointments are the fol- 

 lowing: Effective July 1, A, A. Farnliam, instructor in landscape gardening; 

 and Grace Armstrong and Mary R. F'isher. instructors in home economics 

 extension; July 7, Clair W. McDonald, assistant in animal husbandry; August 

 1, M. F. Grimes, assistant professor of animal husbandry ; H. C. Yerger, jr., 

 instructor in dairy manufacture; and J. N. Else, assistant in agronomy; Sep- 

 tember 1, H, G. Parlviuson, assistant professor of rural education ; Fred 

 Hultz, assistant in animal husbandry ; and W. T. White, teaching fellow in 

 agriculture ; and September 24, C. A. Hunter, assistant profes-sor of bac- 

 teriology. G. S. Bullvley has been transferred from the dairy husbandry de- 

 partment to extension worli as assistant professor of dairy husbandry ex- 

 tension. J. M. Shei-nmn, assistant professor of bacteriology; E. O. Anderson, 

 instructor in farm management ; and H. R. Kraybill, Instructor in agricultural 

 chemistry, have resigneil. 



Oregon College and Station. — An apple and pear packing school was conducted 

 by the horticultural division September 4 to 15. A short course in pruning 

 will be offered during December. 



P. M. Brandt, assistant to the dean and director at the Missouri University 

 and Station, has been appointed professor of dairy husbandry. L. W. Wing, 

 assistant in dairying at the same institution, has been appointed instructor in 

 dairying. Bernard F. Sheehan, in charge of alfalfa investigations at the Iowa 

 College, has been appointed instructor in farm crops and will assist in plant 

 breeding at the station. 



South Carolina Station. — J. L. Seal, formerly with the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try and the States Relations Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has been appointed extension pathologist and will devote his entire time to 

 extension worli in plant disea.se control in the State. G. M. Armstrong has 

 been appointed instructor in the college and assistant in botany in the station, 

 his time being equally divided between teaching and research work with cotton. 

 W. E. Hunter. W. C. Harron, J. G. Gee, and J. L. Cathcart have been appointed 

 graduate assistants in the divisions of botany, chemistry, and veterinary 

 science. 



The horticultural division has given intensive training to a number of the 

 1917 graduates of the college who are managing cooperative canneries in 

 different sections of the State. It is stated that this has proved to be a veiT* 

 successful step in the food conservation campaign. 



Tennessee Station. — A plant house is being built for the department of botany 

 to be used in tlie further study of tomato blight, especially in the inoculation 

 of plants with cultures of fungi isolate<l from blighted plants secured in 

 different sections of the State. 



The corn disease, Physoderma, has been found to be prevalent in east and 

 west Tennessee, and the station is engaged in a campaign, in cooperation 

 with the Plant Disease Survey of this Department, to locate the disease. 



A valuable addition to the equipment of the entomological laboratory is an 

 electric incubator, provided with an extremely sensitive thermoregulator. It 

 has ample space for a large amount of material, also for a recording therno 

 graph and hygrograph and thermometers, and a hygrograph by which the 

 recording instruments are kept adjusted. 



Vermont University and Station. — Dr. H. B, Ellenberger has been appointed 

 associate professor of animal and dairy husbandry and extension specialist in 

 dairying. B. A. Chandler has resigne<l as acting professor of forestry and 

 acting forester of the station to become assistant professor of forestry at 

 Cornell University. W^ G. Hastings has been appointed profes.sor of forestry 

 in the university and chief forester for the State. 



