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tension ; and as assistants, Carl G. Degen in agronomy, Miss Esther S. Mixer 

 in chemical agriculture, Russell M. Love in dairy husbandry extension, D. H, 

 Stewart in agricultural extension, and Ellis M. Christen in animal husbandry. 



Tennessee University. — L. R. Hesler, assistant professor of plant pathology 

 at Cornell University, lias been appointed professor and head of the depart- 

 ment of botany. 



Texas College and Station. — J. W. Luker has been appointed superintendent 

 of the feeding and breeding substation vice J. W. Jennings, resigned to en- 

 gage in farming. Ross M. Sherwood has been appointed poultryman vice 

 "W. L. Mayer, resigned to engage in teaching, and J. B. McNulty has been ap- 

 pointed dairyman, beginning September 1; R. G. Brewer has been appointed 

 assistant animal husbandman in sheep and goat investigations vice C. M. 

 Hubbard, resigned to accept an appointment with the Washington College. 

 Dr. M. C. Tanquary, associate professor of entomology and assistant in staple 

 crop investigations at the Kansas College and Station, has been appointed 

 chief of the division of entomology and State entomologist, beginning January 

 31, 1920, vice F. B. Paddock, whose appointment in the Iowa College and Sta- 

 tion is noted on page 496. P. V. Ewiug, animal hu.sbandman in charge of swine 

 investigations, W. E. Jackson, as.sistant entomologist, and Wellington T. Brink, 

 executive assistant in charge of library and publication, have resigned to go 

 into commercial work, effective September 30, December 1, and August 21, 

 respectively. 



irtah Colleg'e and Station. — A new live-stock building has recently been com- 

 pleted at a cost of approximately $90,000, which will house the college and 

 station departments of animal hu.sbandry, dairy husbandry, poultry husbandry, 

 range management, and veterinary science. The basement of the building 

 will contain a modern commercial dairy. 



B. L. Richards, Ph. D., has been appointed associate professor of botany. 



Vermont University and Station. — Recent appointments include A. H. Gilbert 

 as assistant professor of plant patliology and assistant pathologist in the 

 station, and J. A. Newlander as instructor in animal husbandry. 



Virginia Truck Station. — G. S. Watts resigned July 15 to become assistant 

 horticulturist at the Massachusetts College and was succeeded August 15 by 

 Floyd H. Keister. 



"Washington Station. — Two barns and a 120-ton tile silo are to be built at the 

 Western Washington Substation at Puyallup at an estimated cost of $24,000. 

 A tract of 60 acres of nearby land has recently been purchased. It is planned 

 to improve the dairy herd, retaining the best of the Jerseys on hand and adding 

 a group of Holstein-Friesians. 



West Virginia University. — Dr. John L. Sheldon, in charge of work in 

 botany and bacteriology the last 16 years, has resigned. 



Philippine College of Agriculture. — The College of Veterinary Science has 

 been transferred to Los Banos. This brings it in contact with the remaining 

 work of the institution. A new entomology and plant pathology building has 

 been completed. 



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