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Georgia Station. — B. AV. Hunt, of Eatonton, has been appointed to succeed 

 J. W. McWliorter as a member of the board of directors. 



Kansas College and Station. — D. E. Lewis, assistant professor of horticulture 

 and asistant in the fruit and vegetable disease investigations, resigned April 1 

 to engage in commercial fruit gi-owing. P. E. Crabtree, specialist in crops in the 

 extension division, has been appointed district agricultural agent for western 

 Kansas with headquarters at Scott City. 



Maine University. — Alexander Lurie, instructor in horticulture, has been 

 appointed horticulturist in the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Cornell University. — The New York State College of Agriculture, in coopera- 

 tion with various otlier state agencies, such as the farm bureaus, is conducting 

 an active campaign this spring against oat smut. In this campaign it is using 

 a pictorial poster in briglit colors, the poster showing two men in the act of treat- 

 ing smut with formaldehyde solution, while the lettering on the poster gives 

 very briefly the essential features of the treatment. Information on the subject 

 is being sent out systematically to the agricultural press, largely through the 

 farm bureau agents. One of the railroads of the state is running an oat smut 

 demonstration train. 



All of these activities are regarded as preliminary to the most important part 

 of the worli, whidi is actual demonstration through meetings with farmers. 



Pennsylvania Station. — Tlie station has planned an extensive field test of 

 different carriers of phosphorus. The plan of this experiment calls for 4 tier.s 

 of 41 one-tenth acre plats in each, making a total of 164 plats. The crop rota- 

 tion will consist of corn, oats, wheat, and mixed clover and timothy, each one 

 year, and the fertilizers will not be applied until the plats have passed through 

 one four-year rotation. This will afford preliminary data concerning the rela- 

 tive fertility of the plats. 



The experiment is designed to test tne relative efficiency of equal amounts 

 of pliosphorus in diffei'ent carriers when usetl in connection with a complete 

 fertilizer, with barnyard manure, and with a crop rotation in which the crop 

 residues are returned to the .soil. It will also include the effect of lime on the 

 different forms of phosphorus, together with a comparison of the different 

 methods of applying rock phosphate and acid phosphate. 



During the past sunnner preliminary field and pot experiments were con- 

 ductetl with soil of the Dekalb series from the vicinity of Snow Shoe, Center 

 County. This has led to the establishment of a field experiment in somewhat 

 greater detail with a view of determining the effect of manure, lime, and com- 

 mercial fertilizers for the improvement of the Dakalb soils. 



Rhode Island Station. — Frank O. Fitts has resigned as assistant in chemistry 

 to accept a similar position at the New .Jersey stations. 



Vermont University. — County agents are now at work in 11 of the 14 counties 

 of the State. F. C Shaw, agricultural instructor in the farm and trades' .school 

 at Thompson's Island in Boston Harbor, began work in Bennington County 

 March 27, and F. H. Abbott in Washington County, April 13. 

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