900 EXPERIMENT STATION HBCOfSD. [Vol.43 



Cornell University and Station. — A pi-ofessorship of farm finance has been 

 established in the department of farm management and rural economics to 

 which Dr. W. I. Myers has been appointed. H. E. Babcook, formerly State di- 

 rector of farm bureaus, has returned as professor of marketing. W. F. Lusk 

 has resigned to become head of the department of agricultural education at 

 the Mississippi College, and has been succeeded by Dr. T. H. Eaton, head of 

 the department of agricultural education at the Connecticut College. David 

 Lumsden, assistant professor of floriculture, has resigned to take up horti- 

 culture and landscape gardening work at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, 

 D. C. A year's leave of absence has been granted K. C. Livermore, professor 

 of farm management, to engage in farming. 



North Dakota College and Station. — The election of President E. F. Ladd 

 to the United States Senate is noted. George B. Rogers, dairy husbandman, 

 has resigned to take charge of a dairy herd in Wayne County, Mich. J. W, 

 Haw, assistant county agent leader, has been transferred to the station as 

 animal husbandman. 



Ohio State University and Stati6n. — J. B. Green, specialist in agricultural 

 engineering, has resigned from the university staff to accept a commercial posi- 

 tion, and has been succeeded by Robert Thompson, of the extension service, as 

 assistant professor of agricultural engineering. Miss Faith R. Lauman has 

 been appointed head of the department of home economics. Miss Treva B. 

 Kauffman has resigned as assistant professor of home economics. 



O. A. Alderman, a 1920 graduate of the Michigan College, has been appointed 

 assistant in forestry in the station. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — J. F. Adams, associate professor of 

 botany and assistant botanist, resigned November 15. E. J. Walter has been 

 appointed assistant professor of ngronomy extension. 



Tennessee University and Station.— The college of agriculture and station 

 have undergone a reorganization, resulting in a more complete division of the 

 teaching and investigational forces. Of those formerly in both branches of 

 the work, C. A. Willson, animal husbandman, L. R. Hesler, botanist, O. M. 

 Watson, horticulturist, and M. Mulvania, bacteriologist, have been transferred 

 entirely to the teaching staff. The veterinary department and the farm fore- 

 man have been eliminated from the station organization. 



The college agronomy work has been divided, with R. B. Lowry in charge 

 of insti'uction in soils and O. W. Dynes, recently appointed associate professor 

 of agronomy, of that in farm crops. Professor Dynes will also conduct plant 

 breeding work under the Oliver Perry Temple Foundation. 



Dr. C. D. Sherbakoff, assistant plant pathologist of the Florida Station, has 

 been appointed plant pathologist,. and will have charge of the projects relating 

 to plant diseases. W. M. Shaw, assistant soil chemist at the Minnesota Sta- 

 tion, has succeeded F. J. Gray, resigned as assistant chemist. 



Utah Station. — The station and the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, have just completed the field work of a cooperative soil survey of 

 Ashley Valley, Uintah County. The county commissioners made a special ap- 

 propriation in order to insure the early completion of this work. Several of 

 the irrigation companies of the valley also levied special assessments for a 

 study and reorganization of their irrigation systems by the irrigation depart- 

 ment of the station. 



J. R. Bateman has been appointed superintendent of the Panguitch Farm 

 in Garfield County, which is devoted to pure-bred cattle with a view of im- 

 proving the range stock in the southern part of the State. Peter Nelson has 

 been appointed foreman of the college farm. 



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