NOTES. 



Arizona University. — ^W. M. Cook has been appointed director of exten- 

 sion worlj beginning July 18, succeeding E. P. Taylor, resigned to accept a com- 

 mercial position. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — W. T. Pope, instructor in botany in tlie Uni- 

 versity of California, has been appointed horticulturist to succeed J. E. Higgins, 

 who has accepted a position in the College of Agriculture of the University of 

 the Philippines. John C. Ripperton of the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, was transferred to the position of assistant chemist June 25, 

 succeeding K. A. Ching. 



Purdue University and Station. — H. W. Gregory, assistant professor of 

 dairying and associate in dairy manufactures, has been appointed chief in 

 dairy husbandry vice O. E. Reed, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



Iowa College. — Rev. Wm. I. Chamberlain, president of the college from 

 1886 to 1890, and subsequently a trustee of the Ohio State University and a 

 member of the board of control of the Ohio Station, died July 1, at Hudson, Ohio, 

 aged 83 years, 



Louisiana University and Stations. — ^A tax levy was made by the last 

 legislature on the natural resources of the State, which it is estimated will 

 yield about $3,000,000 per annum. A portion of this fund was allotted to the 

 support of various State institutions, but the surplus, estimated at al)out 

 $1,000,000 at present, is for the development of the College of Agriculture. 



The legislature also made an appropriation of $10,000 for the establishment 

 of a fruit and truclv experiment station. This station is to be located in 

 Tangipahoa Parish. 



A tract of about 30 acres of land at Harahan, near New Orleans, has been 

 purchased by the Sugar Planters Association, at a cost of about $15,000. It is 

 expected that this tract will eventually be deeded to the State for the use of 

 the sugar station, now located at Audubon Park. 



T. H. Jones has been appointed entomologist. 



Minnesota University and Station. — The plan of conducting demonstration 

 farms throughout the State, under the supervision of the extension service, 

 has been abandoned, these problems now being covered by county agents and 

 farm bureau activities. 



Special spring and summer terms of the School of Agriculture have been held 

 for disabled soldiers who are being reeducated under the auspices of the 

 Federal Board for Vocational Education. 



The resignations are noted of E. O. Hanson, assistant professor of dairy 

 husbandry and supervisor of advanced registry testing ; Edna R. Gray, instructor 

 in home economics; C. J. Robertson, instructor in agricultural engineering at 

 Morris; Frank Robotka, assistant in agricultural economies; Mildred Kimball, 

 Gladys Grant, and Ethel Hedman, instructors in home economics at Morris; 

 Lavinia Stinson, instructor in foods and cookery; T. B. McCulloch, supervisor 

 of demonstration farms ; A. M. Christensen, instructor in agronomy at Crooks- 

 ton ; and V. R. Haber, research assistant in entomology. 

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