Vol. 35, 1916] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION". 197 



Dr. W. E. Joseph, associate animal husbandman at the Illinois University and 

 Station, has been appointed assistant animal husbandman, vice R. R. Dod- 

 deridge, whose resigntion has been previously noted. 



New York State College and Stations. — Owing to a veto by Governor Whitman 

 of the legislative printing appropriation bill, carrying a lump fund of about 

 $200,000. no state appropriation for printing the station bulletins and I'eports 

 is available. The Cornell and State stations have each been receiving about 

 $60,000 i>er annum from this fund. The veto followed a refusal by the legisla- 

 ture to itemize the objects of expenditure. 



North Carolina Station, — A campaign to stimulate interest in building silos in 

 the Piedmont section of the State has been begun. A campaign is also under 

 way to induce the patrons of creameries to have their childi'^n compete for 

 about $800 worth of prizes offered by the creameries for the best set of herd 

 records kept for the year beginning July 1. About 100 entries for this contest 

 have been obtaineil. 



The division of markets is assisting the potato growers of the northeast 

 section of the State through a wire service inaugiu'ated in cooperation with 

 the Office of Markets and Rural Organization of this Department, a saving to 

 these growers of several thousand dollars being estimated. A similar service is 

 being rendered to the cantaloup growers in the Sandhill section around 

 Laurinburg. 



Ohio State Unirersity, — Dr. Jay B. Park has been appointed professor of farm 

 crops. He was associated for two years with the department of agi'onomy at 

 the Illinois Station, and since that time has been studying plant breetling at 

 Harvard University, from which he received his doctor's degree this spring. 



Alfred C. Hottes, instructor in floriculture in Cornell Univei-sity, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of horticulture. His special work will be the 

 developing of courses in floriculture. 



Oklahoma College. — James A. Wilson, a former director of the station, has 

 been placed in charge of extension work, vice W. D. Bentley, resigned to accept 

 an appointment with the Office of Extension Work in the South, of the State 

 Relations Service of this Department. 



Hampton Institute. — R. W. Crouse and Louis Martin, instructors in agricul- 

 ture, resigned July 1, the former to manage a farm in Iowa, and the latter 

 to take charge of demonstration work among the negroes in Maryland. Dr. 

 R. R. Clark, veterinarian and instructor in animal industry, resigned August 1 

 to become principal of the Theo<lore N. Vail Agricultural School at Lyndon, 

 A'ermont. J. L. B. Buck and A. E. Shipley, assistant and secretary to the 

 director, have been given indefinite leave of absence for service in the Army 

 in connection with the Mexican situation. Recent appointments include Floyd 

 Crouse, J. R. Case, and J. M. Macintosh, 1916 graduates respectively of the 

 Iowa, Connecticut, and Ontario colleges, as instructors in farm crops, ele- 

 mentary agriculture, and farm physics. 



Vermont University. — Miss Josephine A. Marshall, assistant professor of home 

 economics, has accepted a position with Teachers' College of Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Agriculture at the National Education Association.— According to The Ameri- 

 can Review of Reviews, the association " has not often given so much of its 

 time to the country school and rural conditions as it did this year." At the 

 meeting held at New York City, July 1 to 8, the fundamental line of thought 

 in several departments was that the country school of all rural social institu- 

 tions makes the best and most available center for rebuilding the rural com- 

 munity, and bears at present the greatest responsibility for socializing country 

 life. The address of the president, Dr. David B. Johnson, of South Carolina, was 



