NOTES 



Alabama College and Station. — Dr. F. A. Wolf, plant pathologist, has accepted 

 a position as head of the department of botany and plant pathology at the 

 North Carolina College and Station, beginning January 1, and succeeding H. R. 

 /'ulton, who has accepted an appointment with the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 of this Department. 



Arizona Station. — .T. F. Nicholson, bacteriologist at the Idaho College and 

 Station from 1909-1914, and subsequently agricultural expert for a western 

 railway system, has been appointed agronomist beginning January 1. W. E. 

 Bryan, assistant in agronomy in the Louisiana Stations and who received the 

 M. S. degree at the University of AVisconsin in 1915, has been appointed assist- 

 ant plant breeder beginning February 1. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — The college is asking the legislature for 

 appropriations of .$382,000 for immediate needs, including ?230,000 for a library 

 building, $40,000 for a dormitory, .$3.5,000 to complete the power plant, $12,000 

 to complete the rural engineering shops, .$60,000 for miscellaneous improvements, 

 and ,$5,000 for extra labor due to the enactment of the Saturday half holiday 

 law. It is also requesting an authorization of $200,000 per annum for five 

 years for new buildings, improvements, equipment, and the purchase of land. 



A temporary exchange of instruction in landscape gardening has been effected 

 with the University of Illinois, F. A. Waugh lecturing at the latter institution 

 in exchange with R. R. Root. 



R. Hay Ferguson, for the past two years extension professor of agricultural 

 economics, died December 1, 1915. Professor Ferguson was born in Belfast, 

 Ireland, September 22, 1870, afterward moving to New Zealand and graduating 

 from Canterbury University. In 1913, he was graduateil from the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, specializing in agricultural economics. His special field 

 of work in Massachusetts was the organization of cooperative exchanges and 

 marketing, and he had also suggested a plan for a rural credit system. 



Missouri University and Station. — The station has been authorized to estab- 

 lish two additional soil experiment fields. One of these is to be on either the 

 Mississippi or Missouri River bottom lands in the central or eastern part of 

 the State, the other on the river bottom land on one of the smaller rivers in 

 northwest Missouri. 



Nebraska University. — The technical course in forestry in the college of agri- 

 culture was abolished in the spring of 1015 and farm forestry organized under 

 the department of horticulture. T. W. Nicolet was ai)pointed assistant professor 

 of horticulture to offer courses in farm forestry and landscape gardening, and 

 entered upon his duties October 15, 1915. 



Cornell University. — An inventory or survey of the natural resources of the 

 State, with particular reference to the development of a permanent agriculture, 

 is contemplated. It is announced that this work will in no sense duplicate other 

 state agencies, but looks toward the unification and cooperation of all the avail- 

 able forces and agencies within the State to secure joint action in developing and 

 preserving its resources. 

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