900 EXPEKIMEXT STATIOX RECORD. [Vol.41 



William Riidolfs, of Wageningen, Holland, a graduate student in soils at 

 the State Station, is to spend tlie greater part of the year in the Pasteur 

 Institute in France, putting on a commercial basis the practice which has 

 already been worked out in the laboratories for making rock phosphate avail- 

 able by the process of sulfofication. Howard F. Huber has resigned as assist- 

 ant State leader of farm demonstration to go into commercial work, and has 

 been succeeded by W. F. Knowles. formerly assistant State leader in boys' 

 and girls' club work. 



New Mexico Colleg-e and Station. — President A. D. Crile and Joseph W. 

 Rigney. as.sistant lim-ticulturist, have resigned. The latter is to engage in 

 farming, and has been succeeded by Sidney W. Wentworth. 



A large live-stock dipping vat has been built on the college grounds for the 

 use of farmers and stockmen at a small cost per head. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — A. L. Patrick has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of soil technology. 



Rhode Island Station. — C. G. Bridge, assistant chemist, has resigned. Bertha 

 M. Heath has been appointed assistant in animal breeding and pathologj\ 



Tennessee University and Station. — Litigation extending over five years has 

 been terminated by a compromise under which a bequest by tlie late B. R. 

 Strong of $65,000 and certain real estate to the university has been agreed to. 

 Of this amount $35,000 is to be used for farm purposes by the college of 

 agriculture. 



The cornerstone of the new agricultural building was laid November 1, 1919, 

 and it is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy by the opening 

 of the fall term. The cost will be approximately $250,000. 



S. H. Essary, associate professor of botany and mycologist of the station, 

 has been appointed botanist. 



Vermont University and Station. — An industrial fellowship has been estab- 

 lished in the college of agriculture by the soil improvement committee of the 

 National Fertilizer Association. The fellowship will provide $1,.500 per annum 

 for three years for research in the station on the relation of fertilizers to the 

 hastening of crop maturity. Lewis H. Flint, instructor in botany, has been 

 designated for the fellowship. 



Dr. A. K. Petersen, assistant professor of botany and botanist, has been 

 appointed professor of botany and botanist in the Colorado College and 

 Station. 



Virginia College and Station. — The total enrollment of students is 789, the 

 largest attendance in the history of the college. 



M. E. Gardner has been appointed assistant horticulturist ; E. R. Hodgson, 

 superintendent of the Staunton County substation, vice R. H. Cook ; and R. C. 

 Thomas, formerly assistant botanist at the Ohio Station, assistant plant 

 pathologist. 



Washington College and Station. — Roy Larsen has been appointed assistant 

 in horticulture in the station to investigate soil and cover crop management in 

 the orchards of Chelan County, with headquarters at Wenatchee, beginning 

 February 15. An appropriation of $4,300 for the first year's work has been 

 granted by the county commissioners. 



The appointment is also noted of C. L. Vincent as instructor in horticulture, 

 beginning January 5, vice E. S. Robertson, who will become extension specialist 

 in horticulture. 



