98 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



January 1. Leonard Hegnauer has been appointed soils and crops specialist 

 for field work in the extension department. 



West Virginia TIniversity and Station. — ^Arthur C. Ragsdale has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in dairy husbandry, vice G. W. Thompson, resigned. J. H. B. 

 Krak has been transferred from the department of soils to become assistant 

 chemist, dividing his time equally between the State geological survey and the 

 station, and has been succeeded in the department of soils by Robert M. Salter. 

 J. P. Bonardi (New Hampshire College, 1915) has been appointed assistant 

 chemist in fertilizer work. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — An addition to the hog cholera serum 

 plant by which the manufacture of the serum and virus may be carried on in 

 separate buildings is under construction. A cement silo has been erected for 

 use in feeding experiments and the beef cattle barn has been remodeled. Build- 

 ings are also being put up at the substations at Ashland .Junction, ^Slarshfield, 

 and Spooner under a state appropriation of !?;5,.500. 



The proportion of city-bred students in the college of agriculture has fallen 

 from 22 per cent in 1914 to 16 per cent. 



F. A. Aust, assistant in landscape design in the University of Illinois, has 

 been appointed to take charge of the courses in landscape design and the 

 supervision of the campus. W. J. Geib has been appointed assistant professor 

 of soils. C. D. Livingston and J. W. Braiin have been appointed instructors in 

 the college of agriculture and assistants in the station, the former in agricul- 

 tural engineering, and the latter in horticulture and i)Iant pathology. 



Agricultural Instruction in Canada. — W. R. Reek has resigned as associate 

 professor of anlnuil husbandry at the Ontario Agricultural College to take charge 

 of the extension work in agriculture of Prince Edward Island. T. J. Harrison, 

 superintendent of the substation at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of field husbandry at the Manitoba Agricultural College, and 

 has been succeeded by W. H. Gibson, assistant superintendent at the substation 

 at Lacombe, Alberta. .T. B. Reynolds has been appointed president of the 

 Manitoba College. S. B. ^McCready resigned July 1, 1915, as director of ele- 

 mentary agricultural instruction in the department of education of Ontario, 

 and has been succeeded by Dr. ,T. B. DandcMio, formerly associate professor of 

 botany at the Michigan College, who will have the title of inspector of ele- 

 mentary agricultural classes in the normal and higii schools. F. S. Grisdale 

 has been appointed principal of the school of agriclture at Vermilion, Alberta. 



Valentine Winkler has succeeded George Lawrence as minister of agricul- 

 ture and immigration of the Province of Manitoba. A farmers' cooperative 

 poultry fattening station is being operated at the college. Poultry is shipped 

 in by the farmers, fattened for from 14 to 18 days, killed, dressed, and sold, 

 returns being made after deducting express charges and the actual cost of fat- 

 tening and handling. G. C. White has been appointed professor of rural eco- 

 nomics and farm management and J. A. Neilson lecturer in horticulture. 



The Alberta goverimient, by an order in council of April 29, 1915, established 

 a college of agriculture in connection with the University of Alberta. E. A. 

 Howes, principal of the school of agriculture at Vermilion, has been' appointe<l 

 dean of the faculty of agriculture, and George A. Harcourt, deputy minister of 

 agriculture, assistant to the dean. H. A. Craig, superintendent of demonstra- 

 tion farms, was appointed deputy minister of agiiculture, and Sydney Carlyle, 

 superintendent of demonstration farms. Only advance<l work, beginning with the 

 third year, will be o(Tere<l in the agricultural department of the university, and 

 applicants for admission must have taken the two-year course in one of the 

 schools of agriculture. There were 67 graduates of these schools in readiness 



