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Department of Health and tlie stations to carry on experiments in j^ewage dis- 

 posal and sewage plant control. 



New Mexico Station. — J. D. Hungerford resigned as nutrition chemist May 

 15, to accept a commercial ijositlon. 



New York State Station. — A State employees' pension law has recently been 

 enacted which affects all workers in the station. The salient features of the 

 law provide for voluntary retirement at 60 and compulsory retirement at 70 

 years. The amount of the pension is determined largely by the length of 

 service and the salary at the time of retirement, but can in nro -^ase exceed 

 one-half the salary at retirement. The law becomes effective in January, 1921. 



A State appropriation of $5,000 has been made at the request of fruit grow- 

 ers for a special investigation by the station of the merits of the new dusting 

 methods for the control of insect pests and fungus diseases as compared 

 with spraying. 



Peter G. Ten Eyck of Albany has been appointed to the board of control, 

 vice Parker Corning. John W. Bright, assistant bacteriologist, has resigned to 

 accept a commercial position and has been succeeded by Myron W. P"'inch. 



Oklahoma College and Station.^F. B. Cross, assistant professor of horti- 

 culture and assistant liorticulturist, resigned May 1 to become a county agent 

 in New Jersey. 1 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Esther S. Mixer, assistant in chemical 

 agriculture, resigned June 30. Paul II. Guldin has been appointed associate 

 professor of poultry husbandry; T. B. Charles, instructor in poultry husban<lry; 

 and A. S. Barnhart, assistant in club work extension. 



South Dakota Station. — Some excellent results have been secured recently 

 in feeding silage made from millet. In a feeding tilal of 120 days, cattle made 

 an exceptionally good gain and sold for nearly as much in the market as steers : 

 that had been fed on corn and oil meal. 



Texas College. — John C. Burns, head of the department of animal husbandry, 

 resigned July 1 to become southwestern field representative of the Texas 

 Shoi-thorn Breeders' Association, with headquarters at Fort Worth. 



Vermont University. — M. P. Rasmussen has been appointed farm manage- 

 ment demonstrator in the extension service, beginning April 1. 



Virginia Truck Station. — At the recent session of the legislature, an act was 

 passed designating the station as one of the permanent State institutions. 

 The president of the Virginia Agricultural College and the chairman of the J 

 board of control of the Virginia Station were made ex-officio members of the ^ 

 board of directors, and John G. Eberwine of Deans, Ben T. Gunter of Accomac, 

 and Daniel W. Lindsey of Berkley Station have been appointed by the governor 

 as the remaining members. The State has acquired title to the property upon 

 which the station is located by donation from the local truckers' association, 

 and increased appropriations have been granted for its maintenance and the 

 extension of certain lines of work. 



Wyoming University and Station. — J. C. Overpeck has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of agronomy and assistant agronomist, beginning June 5. Dr. 

 James Poole, botanist of the station, has been granted a year's leave of absence 

 for graduate work in Harvard University, beginning July 1. 



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