NOTES. 



Connecticut College. — F. W. Duflce (Oliio State University, 1915) has been 

 appointed instructor iu agi-onouiy and Glenn II. Campbell, assistant in dairy 

 husbandry. 



Illinois University and Station. — Dr. AV. L. Barlison has been appointed 

 associate profe.ssor of crop production in the college of agriculture and associate 

 chief in crop production in the station. James H. Greene has been appointed 

 state leader in junior extension, boys' and girls' work, in cooperation with this 

 Department. 



Iowa College and Station. — Recent appointments include Ross L. Bancroft 

 as assistant professor in agronomy ; II. W. Johnson as instructor in agronomy 

 and assistant in soil bacteriology ; F. S. Will<ins and Roy Westley as instructors 

 in farm crops ; and Earl Girton, associate professor of animal husbandry at the 

 Alabama College and Station, as extension professor in animal husbandry. 



Kentucky University and Station. — A barn for the study of live-stock dis- 

 eases, a sheep barn, and a tile silo have recently been completed. Studies to 

 improve the type of the general utility sheep in Kentucky and to determine the 

 value of pure-bred sires as compared with scrub sires for the production of 

 spring lambs are to be begun. 



E. H. Nollau, assistaht chemist in the station, has been appointed specialist in 

 agricultural, physiological, and biological chemistry in the States Relations 

 Service of this Department, succeeding on the Experiment Station Record Dr. 

 L. W. Fetzer, who has become profi'ssor of pliysiologj- and biochemistry in the 

 School of Medicine of Fordham University. George H. Vansell of the Kansas 

 Station and C. F. Stiles have been appointe<l assistants in the departments of 

 entomologj' and zoology in the college of agriculture. 



Maine University. — J. F. Tliomns has been appointed instructor in animal 

 industry. 



Massachusetts College. — Stockbridge Hall, the new agricultural building, was 

 dedicated Octobtn- 2'J. The program included addresses on Levi Stockbridge 

 and Charles L. Flint, by W. H. Rowker, of the board of trustees; Agricultural 

 Possibilities in New England, by Dean J. L. Hills, of the A'ermont University 

 and Station; The Engineer in Agriculture, by W. Wheeler, secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture; and a closing address by President Butterfield. 



John C. McNutt, professor of animal husbandry and dairying at the North 

 Carolina College, has been appointed professor of animal husbandry, vice John 

 A. McLean, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



W. F. Turner of this Department, who has been statione.l at the Bureau <if 

 Animal Industry farm at Beltsville, Md., has been appointed extension instruc- 

 tor in animal husbandry, vice George F. Story, whose resignation has been 

 previously notetl. 



Michigan College. — Kenneth G. Hancher (Ohio State I'niversity. inir>) has 

 been appointed instructor in chemistry. 



Missouri University and Station. — The present enrollment in the four-year 

 course in agriculture as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in agrl- 



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