NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — Recent appointments include G. S. Templeton 

 of the Texas College as head of the department of animal industry; E. S. Gir- 

 ton, a 1913 graduate of the Iowa College, as assistant professor of animal in- 

 dustry, vice L. W. Summers resigned to become associate professor of animal 

 husbandry and animal husbandjnan in the Virginia College and Station ; A. R. 

 Gissendanner and J. A. McLeod as assistants in animal industry ; and H. B. 

 Tisdale as assistant in agriculture. 



Arizona University and Station. — J. C. T. Uphof has been appointed instructor 

 iu plant breeding and assistant plant breeder to succeed D. F. Jones, who has 

 been appointed instructor in horticulture in Syracuse University. 



Arkansas ITniversity and Station. — Lynn W. Osborn has been appointed in- 

 structor in agronomy and assistant agronomist. 



Connecticut College and Storrs Station. — The entering class numbered 70, the 

 largest in the histoiy of the institution. 



The third international egg-laying contest under the sole management of the 

 college and station began November 1 with eight entries. 



B. B. Fitts, instructor in dairying in the college, and assistant in dairy hus- 

 bandry in the station, has resigned to engage in extension work in dairy and 

 animal husbandry at the Oregon College and has been succeeded by H. F, 

 Judkins. B. G. Southwick has been appointed assistant agronomist. 



Delaware College. — W. C. Pelton, assistant in horticulture, has been appointed 

 assistant in market gardening at the New Jersey Stations in connection with 

 extension work. 



Georgia College and Station. — Recent appointments in the college include the 

 following : O. T. Goodwin, as instructor in animal husbandry, vice H. B. Carpen- 

 ter ; R. E. Blackburn, as tutor in horticulture, vice C. M. Kiger ; M. W. Lowry, 

 as adjunct professor of soil chemistry, vice R. S. Hollingshead ; and G. E. 

 Downing, to take charge of the pig club work in Gteorgia in cooperation with 

 this Department, and with headquarters at the college. Miss Mary E. Cresswell, 

 in charge of girls' canning club work in the State, resigned October 1 to super- 

 vise this work for the South as a whole and with headquarters in Wa.shington, 

 D. C. 



At the station, C. A. McLendon. for the past five years botanist and plant 

 pathologist and in charge of plant breeding investigations, resigned October 1 

 to engage in commercial work in Columbia, S. C, and was succeeded by B. B. 

 Higgins (Ph. D.. Cornell, 1913). C. A. Wells has been appointed resident 

 chemist. 



The station has just completed two barns of solid concrete at a total cost of 

 about $8,000. One is to be used as a horse barn and the other exclusively for 

 nutrition experiments with cattle. 



Illinois University and Station. — The new armoi-y now under construction is 

 to be further enlarged by the addition of two 30-foot bays, making the entire 

 structure 400 by 200 feet and providing a seating capacity of 8,000 on the floor 

 and ultimately 3,000 additional by means of galleries. The building will be 

 utilized for exhibition purposes, conventions, farmers' short courses, etc. 



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