NOTES. 



Arizona University and Station. — The annual farmers' short course was held 

 at the college of agriculture from January 3 to 15. A total of 127 students was 

 registered in agiiculture and 35 students in home economics. This was an 

 increase of about 20 per cent above the attendance of any previous year. A 

 feature of the course was an irrigation congress which was participated in by 

 farmers, officers of water users' associations, members of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service from Arizona and New Mexico, and irrigation engineers from California. 



A. M. McOmie, assistant agriculturist in the station, resigned January 1 to 

 engage in private work. 



Iowa College. — Dr. Irving E. Melhus, pathologist in cotton and truck diseases 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, has been appointed as.s<>- 

 ciate profe.s.sor of plant pathology. 



Maine University. — Dr. Merritt C. Fernald, the first member of the faculty <>f 

 the institution, its acting presidt-nt from 1868-1871, and its president fnnii 

 1879-1893, dietl at Orono January 8, nt the age of 78 years. Dr. Fernald also 

 served as emeritus professor of philosophy from 1893-1898, when he retired 

 under a special pension from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. 



Missouri University. — W. M. Regan, instructor in dairy husbandry, has re- 

 signed to take charge of the dairy husbandry work at the Nevada University 

 and Station, beginning January 1. L. W. Wing, jr., a graduate student in Cor- 

 nell University, has been appointed a.ssistant in dairy husbandry. E. M. Par- 

 rish, instructor in soils and farm crops at Tuskegee Institute, has been apixiinted 

 demonstrator for negro farmers In Missouri for the six months each year begiu- 

 nitig March 1, vice C. S. Woodard, who dp<'line<l the appointment previously 

 noteil. 



Nebraska University. — Elmer Lamont Rhodes has been appointed Instructor 

 in farm management, »)eginning February 1. R. E. Holland has resigue<l as 

 assistant in instructional au'rononiy to become county agent of Kimball County. 



Nevada University and Station. — Charles E. Fleming, grazing examiner of the 

 Forest Service of this Department, has been appointed professor of ran^rt- 

 management, beginning in February. It Is planned to undertake experimental 

 work In methods of range Improvement and management, largely along botanical 

 and economic lines. 



Texas Station.— J. J. Taubenhaus, Ph. D., associate plant pathologist at the 

 Delaware Station, has accepted an appointment as plant pathologist and physi- 

 ologist, beginning February 1. 



Wisconsin University and Station.— -H. W. Stewart has been appolnteil assist- 

 ant professor of soils, and Dr. J. H. Coffman instructor in veterinary .science 

 in the college of agriculture and assistant in vetorin:iry science In the .station. 



Section of Agriculture, American Association. — The tsvo features of the meet- 

 ing of the Section of Agriculture of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, at Columbus, Ohio, during the holidays, were the address of 

 the retiring vlce-presVlent. Dr. L. H. Bailey, and a symposium on The Relation 

 of Science to Meat Production. 



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