NOTES. 



Iowa College. — According to a note in Minnesota Farm Review, Kenneth 

 McGregor, instructor in iinimtil husbandry, has been appoint -.'d in charge of the 

 department of animal husbandry in the University of Alberta. 



Maryland College and Station. — Recent appointments include C. J. Pierson 

 as assistant in the department of entomology and zoology in the college, O. I. 

 Snapp as fellow in insect investigations in the college and station, and Dr. 

 Philip Garman as assistant entomologist in the station. 



Michigan College. — Science states that G. R. Johnstone has resigned as in- 

 structor in botany to take up graduate work and has been succeeded by H. E. 

 Young of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Virginia College and Station. — During the summer, field meetings have been 

 held at several of the county substations, affording opportunities to many farm- 

 ers to observe the results of the fertilizer experiments, crop rotations, cultural 

 treatments, variety studies, etc. The substations are regarded as rendering 

 valuable service to the farmers in the solution of local problems. 



J. Thompson Brown, J. B. Watkins, and J. A. Turner have been reappointed 

 to the board of trustees. W. B. Ellett has been assigned a teaching course in 

 agricultural chemistry in the college in addition to his duties as station chemist. 

 H. E. Thomas, a 1916 graduate of the college, has been appointed assistant plant 

 pathologist, while K. E. Quantz has been transferred from the department of 

 plant pathology to that of horticulture. J. T. Grissom resigned August 1 as 

 assistant chemist to engage in commercial work. A. A. Ingham, instructor in 

 horticulture, has also been appointed assistant horticulturist in the station. 



Virginia Truck Station. — H. H. Zimmerley has resigned as assistant horticul- 

 turist to accept a position as demonstration agent for Kent County, Delaware. 



West Virginia University and Station. — Among the changes effective July 1 

 was the resignation of I. S. Cook as professor of agronomy and agronomist. 

 Professor Cook has been appointed county agricultural agent of Ohio County, 

 with headquarters at Wheeling, vice Horace Atwood resigned to become 

 poultryman in the station, and has been succeeded by Forest W. Stemple. 

 O. M. Johnson resigned as professor of farm management to become state agent 

 for the Ohio State University. Charles E. Stockdale was appointed editor of 

 the station and extension department. E. A. Tuckwiller resigned as assistant 

 animal husbandman in charge of beef cattle at Lewisburg to become extension 

 specialist in animal husbandry at the station, and was succeeded by R. H. 

 Tuckwiller. R. R. Jeffries resigned as extension specialist in horticulture to 

 become county agent at Caiion Falls, Colo., and was succeeded by W. R. Legge. 

 George W. Burke was appointed assistant chemist in the station, Robert B. 

 Dustman extension specialist in agronomy, and S. A. Cody specialist in poultry 

 husbandry extension work. David H. Kaulfman resigned from the extension 

 work in soils. 



F. E. Bear has resigned as soils chemist and head of the soils department, 

 effective September 15, to become professor of soils at the Ohio State University. 

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