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frnit growing, vice Warren W. Oley, resigned, and Louis K. Wilkins as field and 

 laboratory assistant. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The extension service is bringing the 

 results of station work closely to the people of the State. Many newspapers 

 and farm journals are now carrying one or more articles weekly and one of the 

 local dailies is sending a reporter to the college each day for information. It is 

 stated that as a result of work in Ashe, Allegheny, and Watauga counties, four 

 cheese factories have been established and the output of cheese doubled in the 

 past 10 months. Growing soy beans for oil production has also been encouraged. 



J. D. McVean, who has had charge of the pig club work in the State, has been 

 appointed pig club agent in the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department, 

 and was succeeded .January 17 by B. P. Folk, the county agent of Gaston 

 County. L. I. Case has been appointed assistant beef cattle field agent. 



Ohio State University and Station. — The department of agronomy of the 

 college of agriculture is carrying on a series of experiments to determine the 

 effects of the calcium-magnesium ratio in the soil on bacterial life. Storage 

 tests by two members of the senior class with celery are also in progress in 

 cooperation with the station. 



Oklahoma Station. — Wallace McFarlane. Ph. D., has been appointetl in charge 

 of the soil division of the agronomy work. 



Oregon College. — The annual farmer.s' and home-makers' week was held at 

 the college, January .3-10. In addition to the lectures and demonstrations, there 

 were 21 conferences held by county and state organizations, including the State 

 Grange and Farmers' Union, representatives of which agreed upon a basis 

 for federating the various state organizations. 



A conference of county agriculturi-sts from 13 counties maintaining agents 

 and the officers of the seven substations was held at the college .January 10-l.j, 

 with Paul V. Maris, the new state leader of farm demonstration work in charge. 



H. C. Seymour, formerly superintendent of schools for Polk County, has been 

 appointed state leader of girls' and boys' industrial club work, vice F. L. Griffin, 

 whose resignation has been previously noted, and has entered upon his duties. 



Rhode Island Station. — The experimental work of interest to market gar- 

 deners is to be extended by the addition of over 100 plats. The first main 

 problem to be undertaken is to be a study of the feasibilty of the partial or 

 complete substitution of green manures and commercial fertilizers for horse 

 manure. This is stimulated by the real and prospective scarcity of the manure 

 supply. An overhead irrigation system sufficient to deliver 80 gallons of water 

 per minute from a nearby pond has been partly installed to determine the rela- 

 tive dependency upon water of the various soil treatments. The effect of cer- 

 tain crops upon those immediately following will also be studied. 



L. S. Crosby, assistant in cliemistry, has resigned to accept a commercial 

 position. 



New Entomological laboratories in Canada. — Four new entomological labora- 

 tories were completed during the summer of 191.5. located respectively at 

 Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia ; Frederickton, New Brunswick ; Treesbank. Mani- 

 toba; and Lethbridge, Alberta. 



The laboratory at Frederickton is the most elaborate of these structures and 

 is a two-story and basement brick building 24 by 30 feet, located on the campus 

 of the University of New Brunswick. Its work has been especially directed 

 toward the natural control of insects, notably the brown-tail moth, tent cater- 

 pillar, spruce budworm, and fall webworm. The laboratory at Annapolis Royal 

 i>- a wooden ono-story and basement building. 20 feet square. It is located 

 on the county school grounds and is equipped with special reference to com- 

 bating the brown-tail moth and for studies of the bud moth, fruit worm, and 



