NOTES. 



Hawaii Federal Station. — At the last session of the territorial legislature an 

 appropriation was made available to the station to be used in improving 

 the marketing conditions for local farm produce. The territorial market divi- 

 sion was established under its supervision, and while the produce sent in during 

 the first month amounted in value to only $84, shipments have rapidly increased, 

 amounting in February to $2,200 and in March to $4,200. An unusually keen 

 interest is being taken in this experiment. The territorial market makes avail- 

 able a larger market than had ever been open to the local farmer and at con- 

 siderably better prices. Among the results of its establishment may be noted 

 the greatly increased plantings of miscellaneous farm produce and the extension 

 of poultry and hog raising. 



Kansas College and Station. — President H. J. Waters has been granted leave 

 of absence to make an inspection of the bureaus of education and agriculture in 

 the Philippine Islands, and will subsequently visit China, India, Egypt, and 

 other countries, returning about October 1. Dr. J. T. Willard has been desig- 

 nated acting president during this period. 



Stanley Clark has been appointed superintendent of the new substation at- 

 Colby where wells are being drilled and irrigation and dry-land farming opera- 

 tions being begun. Malcomb C. xSewell, formerly assistant in soils at the Ohio 

 State University, has been appointed superintendent of the Garden City sub- 

 station. Both appointments became effective March 1. 



Kentucky Station. — Dr. L. W. McElyea, of the hog cholera serum administra- 

 tion work, resigned February 1 and has been succeeded by Dr. R. L. Pontius. 

 H. W. Rickey has been appointed poultry expert to organize boys' and girls' 

 poultry clubs. G. C. Routt, assistant in animal husbandry, resigned April 1. 



Michigan Station. — ^Arthur K. Hart has resigned as assistant chemist and has 

 been succeeded by J. H. Torrence, a 1913 graduate of the University of 

 Arkansas. 



Nebraska "University. — The department of agricultural engineering is to give 

 a 6 weeks' course in steam and gasoline engines and automobiles beginning 

 about June 8. A rural ministers' short course is to be held at the university 

 fa I'm June 11-16. 



North Carolina Station. — F. E. Carruth, a graduate of Wesleyan University, 

 has been appointed assistant chemist and has entered upon his duties. 



Oregon College and Station. — Dean A. B. Cordley, of the school of agriculture, 

 has been appointed director of the station. 



Clemson College and Station. — The extension division has just finished con- 

 ducting agricultural rallies in 132 public schools in the State. Each of these 

 schools has a 3-acre demonstration plat and is teaching agriculture under the 

 direction of the college. 



The station has purchased a pure-bred Percheron stallion and a pure-bred 

 Hereford bull for use with the native stock. 



Paul H. Calvin, a graduate in animal husbandry of Purdue University, has 

 been appointed a live stock demonstration agent. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — W. H. Strowd, assistant chemist at the 

 North Carolina Station has been appointed chemist in charge of the feed and 

 fertilizer control. 

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