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in the North Carolina Station, and have been succeeded by Charles H. Hunt, 

 assistant chemist of the Washington Station, and Raymond F. Remlee. 



Oklahoma Station. — M. A. Beeson has recalled his resignation announced 

 some time ago and has been reappointed head of the department of agronomy, 

 with Henry F. Mui-phy as assistant in agronomy. W. L. Blizzard has been 

 appointed head of the department of animal husbandry, beginning July 1. 



Oregon College. — Paul V. Maris, State leader of county agents, has been 

 appointed director of extension. E. L. Westover, dairy extension specialist, 

 has resigned to become western field representative of the American Guernsey 

 Cattle Club. 



Rhode Island Station. — Bertha M. Heath, assistant in animal breeding 

 and pathology, is no longer connected with the station. F. P. Gross, jr., has 

 been appointed assistant in chemistry. 



Washington College and Station. — A destructive tornado passed over the 

 college farm July IS. The All-Northwest Egg-Laying Contest building con- 

 taining 100 entries was entirely demolished and 350 birds killed. The sheep 

 barn and the bull barn were completely destroyed. The horse barn was blown 

 down, and about one-fourth of the college poultry plant building was blown 

 away. No serious injury was done to the experimental work in crops, although 

 cereals and peas were badly lodged, and a 2.5-acre student apple orchard was 

 entirely destroyed. The loss in buildings is estimated at more than $50,000. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Washington and Idaho sta- 

 tions are cooperating in a farm organization and cost of production survey of 

 wheat farms in the Pullman-Moscow area of the Palouse wheat country. 

 E. R. Johnson has been appointed research fellow in farm management in the 

 Washington Station, beginning June 1. 



J. P. Fairbank, head of the department of agricultural engineering, has 

 resigned to enter commercial work, and was succeeded August 15 by L. J. 

 Smith, head of the corresponding department at the Manitoba Agricultural 

 College. T. J. Murray, associate professor of bacteriology and station bac- 

 teriologist, has accepted a similar position at the University of West Virginia. 



H. H. Hill resigned as instructor in dairy irranufactures March 15 to engage 

 in commercial work and has been succeeded by C. A. Phillips. H. N. Colman, 

 superintendent of official testing work, resigned April 1 and has been suc- 

 ceeded by Fred S. Martin. C. E. Howell, assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry, has resigned to become manager of a large ranch in California. 

 E. F. Gaines, cerealist in the station, has been granted a year's leave of ab- 

 sence for graduate study at Harvard University. J. H. Longv^'ell has been 

 appointed instructor in animal husbandry. 



Ontario Agricultural College. — President G. C. Creelman has resigned to 

 become agent-general for Ontario in London, beginning July 1, the business 

 of this office consisting chiefly in directing prospective immigrants to Ontario's 

 agricultural opportunities. J. B. Reynolds, president of the Manitoba Agri- 

 cultural College, has been appointed to succeed him. 



Meyer Memorial Medal. — A bequest of $1,000 by the late Frank N. Meyer, 

 agricultural explorer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 13 years 

 until his death in China in 1918, has been devoted to the issuance of medals 

 for distinctive service in plant introduction. The medals are to be awarded 

 by the Council of the American Genetic Association, and the first was be- 

 stowed May 3 on Barbour Lathrop, associated with the work of the Office of 

 Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the Bureau of Plant Industry since 

 its establishment. 



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