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to accept a position in the Office of Marliets and Rural Organization of tlie 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Montana College and Station. — The chemical building was burned October 20. 

 All the records, the chemistry library, and considerable apparatus were saved. 

 D. S. Fox, Ph. D., has been appointed assistant professor of farm management. 



New Jersey College and Station. — An international egg-laying and breeding 

 contest is being conducted under the auspices of the stations at Vineland, N. J., 

 beginning November 1 and continuing for three years. The contest is open to 

 all poultrymen. One of the purposes in view is to throw light on some of the 

 principles of breeding in fowls, especially of the inheritance of fecundity and 

 other characteristics. 



Work is being begun on a greenhouse for the department of plant pathology. 



S. A. Waksman, H. E. Carney, and Charles H. Richardson have resigned, the 

 first named to accept a fellowship in the University of California, the second 

 to become instructor in the biological sciences and agriculture in the Middle- 

 town Township High School, and the third to become assistant in biological 

 chemistry at Columbia University. Recent appointments include Alvah Peter- 

 son, Ph. D., as instructor in entomology and assistant entomologist ; Miss 

 Nevada S. Evans, as assistant seed analyst; James W. Day, as assistant in 

 agronomy ; Joseph R. Neller, as research assistant in soils ; and Thurlow C. 

 Nelson in charge of oyster research. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The Annual Farmers' Convention held 

 at the college August 29-31, under the auspices of the college, station, and 

 extension workers, was one of the most successful meetings of its kind yet 

 held in the State. About 3,000 men and 2,000 women were in attendance. The 

 special subject of the meeting was rural education, which was graphically 

 presented by means of an exhibition in which several booths were groupe<l 

 around a larger booth in one of the college buildings. The smaller booths rep- 

 resented the activities of the station and extension service, while the larger 

 booth represented a consolidated or farm-life school. This exhibit attracted 

 much attention from visitors. 



E. A. Hodson, assistant professor of agronomy, has been given a year's leave 

 of absence for graduate study, and his work is being taken by J. O. Ware, 

 formerly agent for Columbus County. H. L. Joslyn, assistant professor of 

 soils, has resigned to become superintendent of the Craven County Farm-life 

 School and has been succeeded by T. H. Stafford. George H. Rea has been 

 appointed specialist in bee keeping under a cooperative arrangement between 

 the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the 

 extension service. D. G. Sullins has been appointed assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry and dairying, J. H. Hall, assistant in plant breeding, vice Buxton 

 White, resigned to become alumni secretary for the college, and C. C. Logan, 

 extension specialist in soils. 



Oregon College and Station. — The forestry building has been completed. A 

 new swine feeding barn and laboratory is under construction and is expected 

 to be ready for use in November. 



Paul H. Crouter, a 1916 graduate, has been appointed superintendent of the 

 Eastern Oregon substation at Union, and will have special charge of the cattle 

 feeding experiments. D. E. Rickard, a member of the same class, has been 

 appointed superintendent of the college live-stock farms, and Carey Lloyd 

 Strome, a third member, has been selected as foreman of the seed crop farms. 

 H. A. Schoth has accepted a position in vetch experiments in connection with 

 the studies of the U. S. Department of Agriculture which are under way at 

 the college. 



