NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — The aKrlcultural biiildinp:, Inchuling rrrnch 

 of the oquipnieiit and reooi'ds of the station, was destroyed by fire October 30. 



Florida Station. — Dr. O. F. Burger, pathologist in fruit disea.se investiga- 

 tions in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has 

 been appointed plant pathologist, beginning November 1. John H. Jeffries has 

 been appointed superintendent of the Citrus Substation at Lake Alfred. 



Purdue University and Station. — John June Davis has been appointed head 

 of the department of entomology, succeeding James Troop, retired at his own 

 request after nearly forty years' service. Prof. Troop retains his teaching 

 duties. 



Other appointments include H. D. Brooks as assistant in poultry husbandry 

 and C. E. Baker as assistant in horticulture. S. F. Thornton has resigned as 

 deputy State chemist to accept a commercial position. 



Kansas College and Station. — The next legislature is to be asked to appro- 

 priate funds for continuing the constriction of the* group of agricultural 

 building.s. Approximately .$400,000 will be requested to build the west wing of 

 Waters Hall and annexes to the east and west wing.«, which will be used for 

 a meats laboratory and creamery, respectively. 



The enrollment of students in the division of agriculture is about 500, some 

 50 more than during the fall semester a year ago. The nunrlter of freshmen 

 in agriculture exceeds that of any other fall semester in the history of the 

 institution. 



Recent appointments include P. C. McGilliard as assistant in dairy hus- 

 bandry ; W. R. Horlacher and D. C. Fetzer as fellows In animal husbandry ; and 

 W. S. Wiedorn as instructor in landscape gardening. M. F. Ahearn, for several 

 years professor of horticulture, has resigned to take charge of the department 

 of physical education, and has been succeeded by R. J. Barnett, professor of 

 pomology at the Washington College. 



Rutgers College. — Miss Florence Powdermaker, instructor in the School of 

 Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, was appointed Sep- 

 tember 1 as specialist in nutrition, 



Cornell University. — A State appropriation of $10,000 for extension work on 

 Indian reservations is to ba employed in various ways. Scholarships may be 

 offered at the winter courses, adults may be brought to the college during 

 farmers' week, a rotary loan fund may be established to enable Indians to pur- 

 chase improved seed, animals, machinery, etc., and there nray be general exten- 

 sion work on the reservations. The work is to be under the direction of D. J. 

 Crosby of the extension service, assisted by Dr. Erl A. Bates of Syracuse Uni- 

 versit.v, who is honorary president of the Indian Welfare Society and who has 

 been appointed adviser in Indian extension. There are six Indian reservations 

 in the State with a population of about G,000 and an area of over 10,000 acres. 



New York State Station. — Edward H. Francis and Rossiter D. Olmstead, 

 assistants in horticulture and entomology, respectively, resigned October 1. 

 The former has been succeeded by Harold B. Tukey, a 1920 graduate in horti- 

 [ culture from Cornell University. 



South Carolina College and Station. — Dr. G. F. Lipscomb has resigned as 

 'station chemist to become professor of chemistry at the University of South 



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