NOTES. 



Illinois University and Station. — The resi^jnations are noted of Clarence G. 

 Logan, assistant iu soil extension ; Ward H. Sachs, associate in chemistry ; 

 CJlyde R. Newell, instructor in farm mechanics; and F. C. Richey, assistant 

 in soil physics. E. A. White has returned from a two years' )eave of absence 

 at Cornell University and resumed his duties as assistant professor in farm 

 mechanics. 



Purdue TJniversity and Station. — The new biology building Is under con- 

 struction and is expected to be ready for occupancy in March, 1917. 



J. D. Luckett, assistant chemist in the station, has accepted an appointment 

 on the staff of Experiment Station Record in the section of field crops and has 

 entered upon his duties. 



Iowa College and Station. — A new dairy barn, designed as a model as to 

 arrangement and construction, is being erected on the college dairy farm. 



A total of 3,181 requests for blueprint plans for self-feeders were received 

 at the station from October, 1915, to June, 1916. 



New projects begun by the station include studies of the specific nutritional 

 effects of rations upon swine and sheep, the feeding of rape silage to swine, the 

 water requirements of dairy cows when on succulent feeds, and the digesti- 

 bility of Sudan grass. 



Arthur S. Thurston has been appointed assistant professor of floriculture 

 and truck crops. L. S. Gillette, assistant professor of dairy husbandry in the 

 college, has been appointed assistant chief in dairy husbandry in the station. 



Minnesota Station. — A two-story institute hall has been completed at the 

 Duluth substation. The first floor contains an auditorium and ofiice space, 

 and the second, dormitory accommodations, a kitchen, and a dining room. 

 The new equipment will make possible the holding of community gatherings 

 at the substation, as well as afford a meeting place for various farm organiza- 

 tions of northeastern Minnesota. 



Missouri Station. — ^The department of animal husbandry has been author- 

 ized to spend a balance of $2,000, remaining from its biennial appropriation, 

 in the purchase of pure-bred live stock. 



Charles G. Carpenter has been appointed assistant in horticulture and John 

 B. Smith assistant in farm crops. 



ITew Hampshire College and Station. — Dr. Charles H. Otis has resigned as 

 insti'uctor and assistant botanist to accept a position in the biological labo- 

 ratory of Western Reserve University. 



New Jersey Stations. — D. Manley Jobbins, for a number of years florist and 

 in charge of the greenhouses, died November 11. 



Ohio State University. — The new home economics building is approaching 

 completion. It is a three-story brick building, costing about $150,000, and 

 containing, among other features, a textile laboratory, a large room for work 

 in Instructional management, an experimental flat for courses in house deco- 

 ration and household management, quarters for the extension department, 

 and an auditorium seating about 500 people. 



West Virginia University. — Dr. C. H. Winkler has been appointed professor 

 of rural education, vice M. J. Abbey, resigned. 

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