NOTES 



Alabama College. — Charles S. Williamson, jr., assistant professor of chem- 

 istry, has resigned to accept an associate professorship of industrial and sugar 

 chemistry in Tulane University. 



Arkansas University and 'Station. — At a meeting of the board of trustees June 

 28, Martin Nelson, agronomist, was elected dean of the college of agriculture 

 and director of the station. 



Georgia Station. — H. P. Lykes has resigned as animal husbandman to accept 

 a position with the Southern Railway in connection with their propaganda work 

 in dairying and poultry raising, with headquarters at Atlanta, and has been 

 succeeded by Perry Van Ewing, assistant in animal nutrition investigntious at 

 the Kansas College and Station. 



Mississippi College and Station. — J. M. Beal, instructor in botany in the col- 

 ture, has been appointed supervisor of extension courses, P. H. Elwood extension 

 instructor in civic betterment, and A. F. McDougall, a 1913 graduate of the 

 college, instructor in charge of an automobile outfit which is giving demonstra- 

 tions from town to town of spraying, pruning, milk testing, etc. The college 

 fair exhibit is being materially enlarged. 



Michigan College and Station. — J. A. Jeffery of the department of soil physics 

 has resigned to accept a position as agriculturist with the Detroit, South Shore, 

 and Atlantic Railway. R. J. Baldwin has been appointed superintendent of 

 agricultural extension, and R. E. Karraker research assistant in soil physics, 

 vice Dr. George Bouyoucos, resigned. 



Mississippi College and Station. — J. M. Beal, instructor in botany in the col- 

 lege, has been appointed plant pathologist in the station. 



Nevada University and Station. — L. T. Sharp, instructor in soils in the college 

 of agriculture and in charge of the soils laboratory in the station, resigned July 

 15 to become assistant professor of soil chemistry and associate soil chemist in 

 the California University and Station. 



Oregon College and Station.— A substation has been established at Hood 

 River for the purpose of studying the fruit pests, plant diseases, and other 

 horticultural problems of that section, with J. R. Winston, of the North Carolina 

 College and Station, as plant pathologist. A state appropriation has also been 

 made for a substation in Clatsop County, and it is expected that this will soon 

 be established, with dairying, small fruit growing, and truck gardening as the 

 principal features of the work. 



E. L. Potter has been appointed head of the department of animal husbandry, 

 succeeding Director Withycombe, who will devote his entire attention to admin- 

 istrative duties as director. H. F. Wilson has been appointed head of the 

 department of entomology, relieving Dean A. B. Cordley, who will give his 

 whole time as dean of the school of agriculture. 



Roy R. Graves, of the Dairy Division of this Department, has been appointed 

 dairyman, vice F. L. Kent, whose resignation has been previously noted. O. M. 

 Nelson, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin, is to have charge of 

 the division of sheep husbandry of the animal husbandry department. 



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