1919] NOTES. 899* 



Louisiana Stations. — W. E. Dodson, dean of the college of agricvilture since 

 1909 and director of the stations since 1905, resigned January 1. He was suc- 

 ceeded hy Dr. W. H. Dalryniple, who will also continue as professor of veteri- 

 nary science and veterinarian. 



Maryland Station. — Howard J. Winant has been appointed assistant in soil 

 investigations. 



Massachusetts Station. — Miss Esther S. Mixer, assistant chemist in the feed 

 and dairy section, has resigned to accept a position in the Pennsylvania Col- 

 lege, and has been succeeded by Miss Ethel M. Bradley. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A contract has been entered into with 

 the Anoka County Poor Farm for the use, by the station, of a portion of its 

 land as a sandy-land exiDeriment field. This tract adjoins one already in use as 

 a peat-land experiment field, and a series of mutually contributory and com- 

 plementary soil studies on the two types has been inaugurated. 



The official testing of pure-bred cows for advanced registry has inci'eased 

 until 60 testers are now in the field. 



The resignations are noted of R. M. Washburn as professor of dairy hus- 

 bandry to engage in commercial work ; P. W. Peck, as associate professor of 

 farm management, who has been for several months connected with the farm 

 cost-accounting studies of the Office of Farm Management, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture ; and Benjamin Kienholz as instructor in agronomy. 

 J. D. Black has been appointed professor and chief of the division of agri- 

 cultural economics, vice W. W. Cumberland, whose leave of absence for service 

 in Turkey as financial and economic adviser to the commission to negotiate 

 peace between the Allies and Turkey has been continued for another year. 

 J. R. Keithley, head of the dairy department of the North Dakota Station, has 

 been appointed professor of dairy manufactures ; Theodore Odland, instructor 

 in agronomy and assistant agronomist ; George A. Pond, assistant professor of 

 farm management ; C. G. Worsham, instructor in farm management ; and D. L. 

 Peterson, instructor in poultry husbandry. 



Missouri University and Station. — The resignations are noted of T. J. Tal- 

 bert as associate professor of horticulture; Ernest C. Pegg as assistant pro- 

 fessor of forestry ; Ralph L. Mason as extension instructor in poultry husbandry ; 

 and J. C. Hackleman as extension assistant professor of farm crops, the last 

 named to assume charge of crops extension work at the University of Illinois. 

 A. C. Dahlberg has been appointed assistant professor of dairy husbandry. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Dr. E. M. Wilcox, plant pathologist and 

 physiologist, has resigned, effective April 1, to become director of an experiment 

 station to be established in San Domingo. 



Nevada University and Station. — Dean C. S. Knight of the college of agricul- 

 ture, also head of the department of agronomy in the college and station, has 

 i-esigned to become secretary of the Reno Chamber of Commerce, effective June 

 30. Miss Hester Mayotte, secretary and librarian of the station, resigned 

 January 31. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — Arrangements have been made with the 

 French Ministry of Agriculture for tests by the stations of eight lots of soil 

 from the territory in the vicinity of Verdun, Rheims, Soissons, and Amiens. 

 A comparison will be made of soil from fields not affected by shell fire with 

 soil from fields badly torn by shells and shell fragments, with a view to 

 determining whether the churning of the surface by shells and the temporary 

 saturation with gas fumes has more or less permanently affected the crop- 

 producing power of the land. 



