1916] NOTES. 399 



of agricultural engineering; A. C. Ragsdale, instructor in dairy husbandry at 

 the West Virginia University, as extension assistant professor of dairy hus- 

 l.andry; W. A. Albrecht as instructor in soils; R. A. Kinnaird, instructor in 

 agriculture at the Maryville State Normal School, as extension instructor in 

 soils; H. G. Newman as assistant in veterinary science; P. H. Ross, county 

 agricultural agent of Leavenworth County, Kans., as county agent leader; 

 Harry T, Bennett as assistant in agricultural chemistry; Dr. E. H. Bullock as 

 assistant in the agricultural extension service ; and J. H. H. Mote as district 

 agricultural agent in the Ozark region. 



Montana College and Station. — Resignations are noted of G. E. Smith as as- 

 sistant chemist, effective August 1, and D. C. Wood, as assistant professor and 

 assistant in farm management, effective September 1, the latter to accept 

 a position as extension professor of farm management in the University of 

 Missouri. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The erection of the agricultural engineering 

 building has been postponed on account of the present high cost of construc- 

 tion. Bids for erecting this building have twice been advertised for and 

 refused. It is probable that another effort will be made to secure bids about 

 March, 1917. 



Frank C. Dean has resigned as agricultural editor to accept a similar posi- 

 tion in the Ohio State University, effective September 1. 



Nevada Station. — The collection has been begun of certain lupines poisonous to 

 live stock for the purpose of extracting the poisonous principle and studying 

 its chemical nature. A new line of work planned is a study of methods of 

 avoiding the heavy losses now experienced in bringing sheep through the period 

 of spring starvation when they are coming from the winter ranges of the 

 southern deserts to the lambing grounds in the northern portion of the State. 



Rutgers College. — Alva Agee, director of the division of extension in agricul- 

 ture and home economics and professor of soil fertility, has been appointed 

 secretary of the new state board of agriculture. John H. Haukinson has been 

 appointed state leader in farm demonstrations and Alexis L. Clark has resigned 

 as assistant state leader. 



Cornell University and Station. — The state fiscal year has been changed to end 

 June 30 instead of September 30 so that it now coincides with that of the Fed- 

 eral Government. This is proving to be of great convenience to the college of 

 agriculture, particularly in the administration of its projects under the Smith- 

 Lever Act. 



A. R. Mann, formerly secretary of the college of agriculture, has been ap- 

 pointed acting dean and director beginning August 1. 



The summer session of the forestry school was attended by about 30 seniors 

 and graduate students as compared with about 20 the previous year. The* pro- 

 gram included practical woods work in the neighborhood of Lake Saratoga, 

 where because of the nearness of fairly large centers of population there is a 

 close utilization of forest products and a type of lumbering different from that 

 studied in the Adirondacks in 1915. G. H. Collingwood has been appointed ex- 

 tension professor of forestry, vice R. D. Moody resigned to become a member of 

 the Wisconsin conservation commission. 



Clinton DeWitt Smith, instructor in extension teaching and widely known as 

 an educator in both North and South America, died at Buffalo, N. Y., August 5, 

 while on a lecture tour for the college of agriculture. Professor Smith was born 

 at Trumansburg, March 7, 1854, was graduated from the university in 1873, and 

 taught in the Star Military Institute and practiced law for brief periods. He 

 became assistant agriculturist in the station in 1890, director of the Arkansas 

 Station in 1891, and director of the Minnesota Station and professor of dairy 



