NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — Science notes that Jesse M. Jones has resigned 

 as head of the department of animal industry to become field agent for this 

 Department in farm demonstration work in Maryland, Kentucky, and West 

 Virginia. L. W. Shook, assistant in animal industry, has resigned to accept a 

 similar position with the North Carolina Station, and will be accompanied by 

 T. C. Bottoms as herdsman. J. M. Johnson, assistant in animal industry, has 

 resigned to take up graduate work at the University of Missouri. 



Arkansas University and Station. — The college of agriculture has just closed a 

 series of one-week farm extension schools held in seven counties in the State, in 

 which the Stiite and local farm demonstration agents of this Department par- 

 ticipated. The remote sections of the State were reached by the schools, and 

 they were so successful that much attention has been attracted to the college as 

 a result. The average number of farmers re^stering in the schools was 210. 



Ernest Walker, professor of horticulture and horticulturist, has resigned to 

 accept a corresponding position in the Alabama College and Station. W. L. 

 Fowler, assistant professor of animal husbandry in the University of Arizona, 

 has been appointed animal husbandman. 



Kansas College and Station. — A new hog building and animal nutrition labora- 

 tory and a slaughterhouse have just been completed. The model mill for the 

 study of problems in the milling industry is already in operation. Bids have 

 been requested for the new animal husbandi-y barn, which will cost about 

 $20,000. and a new hog-cholera serum plant, to cost about $12,000. The board 

 of administration has allotted $20,000 for repairs of the college buildings, the 

 building of driveways, and the general improvement of the campus. The 

 purchase of from 15 to 20 dairy cows has been authorized for the Fort Hays 

 substation. 



Recent appointments include the following : O. C. Miller, seed inspector ; 

 F. L. Beutley, assistant in agronomy; Lyman D. La Tourette, fellow in crops; 

 John Seiglinger, fellow in soils ; James P. Poole, assistant in botany ; Karl B. 

 Musser, a graduate of the college, as deputy dairy commissioner; II. L. Kent, 

 principal of the secondary school of agriculture and associate professor of voca- 

 tional education; W. E. Grimes (Kansas, 1913), superintendent of the agron- 

 omy farm, vice F. B. Lawton, resigned ; Ray Gatewood, assistant in animal 

 husbandry; G. E. Thompson, of this Department, field superintendent of the 

 substation work; F. H. Merrill, assistant horticulturist, vice John R. Cooper, 

 resigned; Dr. C. W. Hobbs, field veterinarian in the antihog-cholera campaign; 

 H. E. Dodge, assistant in dairy husbandry; and H. B. Walker, of the extension 

 department, as the representative of the college on the stiite board of irri- 

 gation. 



The resignations are noted of C. D. Steiner, superintendent of boys' and girls' 

 agricultural clubs, to become professor of agriculture in the University of 

 Utah ; George C. Wheelei', animal husbandman of the extension department, 

 to become live stock editor of the Kansas Farmer ; T. R. H. Wright, instructor 

 in the animal husbandry department, to become live stock editor of the 



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