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Plans have been approved for a superintendent's cottage and small live 

 stock barn at the Waseca substation. A tract of 8 acres at the fruit station at 

 Zumbra Heights has been purchased, and negotiations are under way for a 

 larger tract. 



C. P. Bull, professor of agronomy and seed specialist, resigned October 1 to 

 engage in the seed business. J. C Cort, associate professor of dairy hus- 

 bandry, has resigned to become manager of a large dairy farm in Wisconsin, 

 and has been succeeded by Allan B. Rayburn as assistant professor of dairy- 

 husbandry. Other resignations include A. G. Tolaas as extension specialist in 

 plant pathology to become chief inspector for the newly organized State board 

 of inspection and certification of seed potatoes; Elizabeth Vermilye as assist- 

 ant professor of home management; R. O. Westley as assistant professor of 

 agronomy at Crookston ; and E. S. Proebsting and J. AV. Bushnell as instruc- 

 tors in horticulture. 



W. H. Alderman, professor of horticulture and horticulturist of the West 

 Virginia University and Station, has been appointed chief of the division of 

 horticulture beginning September 1. Among other appointments may be noted 

 those of George A. Pond as assistant professor of agronomy and farm manage- 

 ment; Theodore E. Odland as instructor in agronomy; T. S. Hanson as as- 

 sistant in forestry; J. E. Chapman as assistant in soils; Harold Macey as 

 assistant in dairy bacteriology; Harold Borst as assistant seed analyst; J. H. 

 Beaumont as assistant in horticulture; E. O. Hanson as assistant in dairy hus- 

 bandry ; Robert R. Smith as agronomist at Crookston ; Frank Frolik as exten- 

 sion specialist in plant pathologj' ; Alberta Gustafson as assistant State leader 

 of boys and girls club work ; Julia O. Newton as assistant State leader of home 

 economics extension work ; Norris K. Carnes as instructor in animal hus- 

 bandry ; Grover C. Matthews as assistant professor of beekeeping ; Clyde R. 

 Chambers as research assistant in agricultural economics; Edward C. Torrey 

 as extension specialist in publicity work ; and Adele Koch as extension 

 specialist in home economics. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — Charles D. JefEries and 

 W. J. Sweeney, 1919 graduates of the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Col- 

 leges, respectively, have been appointed assistants in animal nutrition begin- 

 ning September 1. 



Canadian Agricultural Appointments. — Dr. Simon Frasie Tolmie, member 

 of Parliament for Victoria, B. C, has been appointed Canadian Minister of 

 Agriculture. He is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, and was for 

 many years a Federal and Provincial veterinary inspector, as well as a live 

 stock raiser and president of several live stock organizations. 



Dr. J. H. Grisdale, director of the Canadian Experinfental Farms and acting 

 deputy minister of agriculture, has been appointed deputy minister of agri- 

 culture. E. S. Archibald, Dominion animal husbandman, has been appointed 

 director of experimental farms. 



F. M. Clement has been appointed dean of the faculty of agriculture at the 

 University of British Columbia, vice L. S. Klinck, who has been appointed 

 president of the university. 



Agricultural Bequest to Wilmington, Vt. — By the will of the late Clinton 

 C. Haynes, his entire estate, estimated at $20,000 or more, has been left to the 

 people of Wilmington, Vt., in trust " for the benefit of agriculture in said town." 

 The will provides for the investment of the fund, the income to be used as the 

 trustee deems most advantageous to the agricultural interests of the people of 

 the town, but being annually applied for the expense of lectures, experiments, 

 premiums, and other purposes incident to the object for which the fund was 

 created. 



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