NOTES. 



Arizona TTniversity. — Stanley F. Morse, superintendent of the extension serv- 

 ice, has resigned to become superintendent of a large commercial guayule 

 plantation near Tucson. 



Delaware College and Station. — M. L. Nichols has been appointed assistant 

 professor of agronomy and assistant agronomist, vice W. A. Lintner whose 

 resignation has been previously noted. 



Georgia Station. — The building of two additional offices and laboratories to 

 house the agronomist and assistant chemist has been authorized. The work 

 is to be begun at once, as well as other improvements in the buildings and 

 grounds. 



Director R. J. H. DeLoach resigned November 1 to organize and direct a 

 bureau of research and education connected with a commercial concern in 

 Chicago. James D. Price, State Commissioner of Agriculture, has been ap- 

 pointed director beginning January 1, 1917. H. P. Stuckey will be acting 

 director until that time. 



Idaho University and Station. — Two new silos have been completed for test- 

 ing new crops in feeding cattle and sheep, making five in use. In addition, 

 13 wood stave silos of f ton capacity are to be devoted to a study of the fer- 

 mentation processes of silage and of the use of crops other than corn. 



Julius E. Nordby has been appointed instructor in animal hu.sbandry and 

 farm superintendent. 



Illinois University and Station. — W. I. Brockson has been appointed assistant 

 in crop production. 



Purdue University and Station.— R. S. Stephenson has been appointed instruc- 

 tor in animal hu.sbaudry and W. B. Krueck and J. B. Markey assistants in 

 animal husbandry in the college of agriculture, and George Cross assistant in 

 animal husbandry in the station. Charles S. Brewster has been appointed 

 instructor in poultry husbandry. P. S. Richey has succeeded P. E. Thompson, 

 resigned, as assistant in animal husbandry. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Dr. J. H. Kastle, dean of the college of 

 agriculture and director of the station, died September 24 after a brief lilness. 



Dr. Kastle was born January 25, 1864, at Lexington, fvy., and was graduated 

 fiom the Kentucky State College in 1884. He received the master's degree two 

 years later from the same institution, and in 1888 that of Ph. D. from Johns 

 Hopkins University. He then returned to Lexington as professor of chemistry, 

 serving in this capacity for 17 years. In 1905 he became chief of the division 

 of chemistry in the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health and Marine 

 Hospital Service, and from 1909 to 1911 served as professor of chemistry in 

 the University of Virginia. 



Dr. Kastle was appointed research chemist in the Kentucky Station in 1911, 

 and upon the death of Dean Scovell the following year succeeded him as dean 

 and director. He was a member of the American Chemical Society, the Society 

 of Biological Chemists, the American Physiological Society, and the Society 

 of Chemical Industry, and the author of a long list of publications, mainly in 

 biological and physiological chemistry. When taken sick he was preparing a 

 paper on The Relations of the Experiment Station to Regulatory Work for 

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