NOTES. 



California University and Station. — The university is cooperating with the 

 Drainage Investigations of this Office in a study of the reclamation of alkali 

 lands by drainage ditches and a pumping system. The 5,400-acre ranch at 

 Kearney Park is to be utilized for this work, of which Walter Wallace Weir 

 has been placed in charge. 



The ministers' week, held at Davis December 1-5, 1913, was attended by 485 

 clergymen. 



The class in building construction at Davis Is to erect a new farm mechanics 

 building. 



Kentucky "University and Station. — Ralph Kenney, assistant in farm crops in 

 the college of agriculture, resigned January 1 to accept a position in the Kansas 

 College and Station as assistant agronomist in forage crop work, and was suc- 

 ceeded January 20 by Dillon S. Myer. James E. Mastin, assistant chemist in 

 the food and drugs department of the station, also resigned January 1 to become 

 assistant in chemistry in the Mississippi College. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — The extension service of the college has 

 recently established a section of agricultural cooperation and marketing. Assist- 

 ance is to be given in the organization of cooperative buying and selling associa- 

 tions, rural credit, the finding of a better market for agricultural produce, and 

 other lines of agricultural cooperation. R. H. Ferguson, of Virginia, a graduate 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College and with considerable experience in organ- 

 izing cooperative associations in New Zealand and the Southern States, has been 

 appointed extension professor in agricultural economics to carry on this work. 



The state law relative to the annual report of the station has been so amended 

 as to permit of its publication in installments, the size of edition of each install- 

 ment up to 20,000 copies being fixed by the director. This change makes pos- 

 sible the publication of the station bulletins as parts of the annual report, and 

 as this report is printed at the expense of the State will increase the station 

 revenues available for other purposes. 



A. H. Nehrling, instructor in floriculture in the University of Illinois, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of floriculture in the college. John L. Byard, 

 deputy apiary inspector since 1911, has been appointed superintendent of the 

 apiary. 



Minnesota University and Station. — An emergency appropriation of $15,000 has 

 been granted for hog cholera serum production. This increases the previous 

 appropriations to $25,000. 



The home economics division has been reorganized to take effect August 1, 

 Miss Juniata L. Shepperd and Miss Margaret J. Blair of the college of agri- 

 culture being transferred to the extension division as assistant professors of 

 home economics, and Miss Bess M. Rowe of the extension division becoming 

 assistant professor of home economics in the college of agriculture. Robert C. 

 Ashby, of the Washington College and Station, has been temix)rarily appointed 

 instructor in animal husbandry in the college and assistant in the station in 

 connection with graduate work. 

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