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husbandry from 1891-1893. In the latter year he went to the Michigan College 

 as professor of agriculture, continuing in this position until 1899. In 1895 he 

 was also made director of the Michigan Station, and in 1899, dean of the de- 

 partment of special courses and superintendent of farmers' institutes. In 1908 

 he accepted the presidency of the Louis Queiros School of Agriculture of Sao 

 Paulo. Brazil, returning to this country after a five-year period of service in 

 1013. His subsequent life was spent on his farm at Trumansburg and in the 

 extension service of the college of agriculture. 



New York State Station.— John C. Baker, Ph. D. (Columbia, 1916), has been 

 appointed associate chemist. William W. Baer has been appointed assistant 

 chemist for work in the agronomy department, succeeding E. J. Lewis resigned 

 to engage in commercial work. 



Ohio Station. — Recent appointments include Wayne Van Pelt as assistant in 

 botany, W. C. Gangloff as assistant in chemistry, and H. J. Conlin as assistant 

 in soils. C. E. Mangels, assistant in agricultural chemistry at the Missouri 

 University and Station, has been appointed assistant in nutrition beginning Sep- 

 tember 1, succeeding Chas. M. Fritz resigned. 



Oregon College and Station. — Pai-mers' days have recently been held at the 

 Moro dry-farming substation and the Eastern Oregon substation near Union. 

 The institutions were opened to inspection and the leading experimental work 

 was explained to hundreds of farmers. 



A West-side Farmers' Week was conducted by the college extension service at 

 McMinnville, July 3 to 8, with more than 1,000 farmers and their wives in 

 attendance. 



Gilbert B. Posey, research assistant in botany, has been appointed scientific 

 assistant in forest pathology in this Department. 



Porto Rico Insular Station. — During the past year experimental plantings have 

 been made of pineapples, vegetables, grapefruit, and other economic plants. 

 About 300 tons of seed cane were distributed and the station has about 1,000 

 seedlings under test. Excellent results are reported by planters with D-117 

 and B-20S. 



Work with citrus diseases, analyses of tropical fruits, and a citrus survey 

 are being begun. About 8,700 packages of plants, 5,000 of fruits, and 1,000 

 of seed were inspected under the plant quarantine. An appropriation of $1,000 

 was made by the Porto Rican legislature for the construction of a plant house. 



George N. Wolcott has resigned as assistant entomologist to complete Ph. D. 

 work at the University of Illinois. 



Tennessee University. — C. Elmer Wylie has been appointed assistant in dairy- 

 ing beginning June 15. 



Utah College and Station. — The station office building has been thoroughly 

 renovated and the station library rearranged to make its material more readily 

 accessible. The mailing service for all publications of the institution, including 

 those of the college, station, and extension division, has been reorganized to 

 promote efficiency in sending out printed matter. A conference of the agronomy 

 workers of the eleven Rocky Mountain and Pacific Slope States was held at the 

 college July 18-20. 



N. I. Butt, fellow in agronomy, has been appointed assistant agronomist and 

 H. P. Anderson assistant chemist and bacteriologist. Other appointments in the 

 station include Orson P. Madsen as assistant poultryman, vice A. D. Egbert, 

 resigned ; N. E. Edlefsen as assistant meteorologist ; and W. J. Merrill as secre- 

 tary to the director. George Stewart and H. R. Hagan, instructors in agronomy 

 and entomology, respectively, have been granted leaves of absence for the en- 

 suing year to pursue graduate work in Cornell and Harvard universities. 



