NOTES. 



Connecticut State Station. — Major Joliu P. Street, chief of the department of 

 cliemistry, resigned August 1 to engage in commercial work and has been suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. E. M. Bailey. 



Georgia Station. — The legislature has appropriated .*?S,000 to supplement the 

 T'"ederal funds in the repair and upkeep of the station". 



Hawaii College. — The territorial legislature has recently enacted legislation 

 \\hereby in 1920 the college will be expanded into the University of Hawaii. 

 Two colleges will be organized, a college of applied science, AA'hich will con- 

 tinue most of the present curriculum, including agriculture and mechanical 

 arts, and a college of arts and sciences, to offer courses in cultural lines and 

 leading to the B. A. degree. 



Idaho University and Station. — Dr. Wilber R. Kidwell has been appointed 

 assistant professor of veterinary science in the college of agriculture, beginning 

 September 1. R. S. Snyder, assistant in soil chemistry in the Iowa Station, has 

 been appointed assistant chemist in the station. 



Maryland Station. — E. V. Miller has been appointed assistant plant physiolo- 

 gist, George F. Stuntz, assistant agronomist, and F. S. Holmes, seed inspector, 

 succeeding S. V. Eaton, W. J. Aitcheson, and C. P. Smith, respectively. B. H. 

 Brinkley has resigned as farm superintendent. 



Massachusetts College. — The innovation was tried this year of holding 

 farmers' week in midsummer instead of in tlie spring. The plan is reported as 

 very successful, the maximum attendance aggregating over 1,500 and being of 

 a very representative nature. 



Ohio Station. — Science announces that Don C. Mote, assistant animal hus- 

 bandman in parasitology investigations, has been appointed State entomologist 

 of Arizona, beginning July 1. 



Oregon College and Station. — C. I. Lewis, head of tlie department of horti- 

 culture and vice-director of the station, has resigned to engage in commercial 

 work. Dr. E. J. Kraus, dean of service departments and research horticulturist, 

 has been appointed professor of applied botany at the University of Wisconsin. 

 F. S. Wilkins, instructor in farm crops at the Iowa College, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of farm crops. 



Rhode Island Station. — Chester Bridge and William Mather, 1919 graduates 

 of Wesleyan University and the Massachusetts Agricultural College, respec- 

 tively, have been appointed assistants in chemistry and have entered upon their 

 duties. 



Vermont University. — At the last session of the legislature an appropriation 

 of $25,200 per annum was made for cooperative extension work. This is to be 

 expended through the county farm bureaus, at the rate of $600 per year for 

 each of the three main divisions, namely, county agents, home demonstrations, 

 and boys' and girls' clubs. 



Wyoming University and Station. — Work has been begun on a doul)le housa 

 at the university stock farm. 



Dr. J. W. Scott, professor of zoology and research parasitologist, is to spend 

 the coming year in research work in the East, partly in Washington, D. C. 



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