NOTES. 



Maryland Station. — Dr. A. G. McCall has returned from service with the Army 

 Educational Corps in France, and has resumed his duties iu charge of soli 

 investigations. 



Mississippi Station. — Tlie substation located at McNeill will henceforth be 

 conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Special attention will be given to live stock, not- 

 ably sheep and hogs, with reference to conditions in southern Mississippi. 

 S. W. Greene of the Department lias been appointed in charge of the substation. 



The work formerly carried on at McNeill has been transferred to Poplarville, 

 where E. B. Ferris, as assistant director in charge, is engaged in experimeais 

 with forage crops and fertilizers. 



Missouri University and Station. — H. O. Allison, associate professor of animal 

 husbandry and animal liusbandman, has been appointed farm adviser for the 

 Soil and Crop Improvement Association of Livingston County, 111. 



Montana College.^ — President James M. Hamilton resigned July 7, and lias 

 been succeeded by Alfred Atkinson, profes.sor of agronomy and agronomist. 



Cornell University. — ^The semi-centennial of the university was observed June 

 20 to 22, the elaborate ceremonies including the unveiling of a statue of the 

 founder, Ezra Cornell. 



A new chemistry building is to be built to cost about a million and a half 

 dollars. The name of the donor has not yet been announced. 



Tennessee University and Station. — It is announced that President H. A. 

 Morgan is to continue as dean of the college of agriculture and director of tlie 

 station. J. D. Hoskins, dean of the college of liberal arts, has been appointed 

 assistant to the president ; C. A. Willson, assistant dean of the college of agri- 

 culture; and C. A. Mooers, assistant director of the station. 



A gift of $25,000, by Miss Mary Boyce Temple, for conducting special agricul- 

 tural tests by the division of agricultural extension, has been made public. 



Vermont University. — President Guy Potter Benton, for some time educational 

 director of the American Army of Occupation in Germany, has tendered his 

 resignation as president of the university, effective July 1. 



Washington College and Station. — J. P. Fairbank, assistant professor and 

 acting head of the department of agricultural engineering, has been made pro- 

 fessor and head of the department. E. H. Steffen of the Forest Service of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture has been appointed associate professor and 

 head of the department of forestry. Roy O. Westley, instructor in agriculture 

 at the School of Agriculture at Crookston, Minn., has been appointed instructor 

 in farm crops. Joseph Passonneau, assistant in the office of markets, has been 

 appointed director of that office vice Asher Hobson resigned. 



West Virginia Station.— The legislature has converted into a I'egular perma- 

 nent grant the appropriation which two years ago was made as a special 

 emergency fund on account of war conditions. In addition, $30,000 has been 

 granted for farm buiUlings, roads, fences, and other improvements at Morgan- 

 town, and $15,000 for the special needs of the Iteymann Memorial Farms. It 

 is expected to proceed with the building of additional barns immediately and 

 the furnishing of the additional equipment needed. 



Director J. L. Coulter has returned fi-om six months' service in Army educa- 

 tional work in Europe. 

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