NOTES, 



Georgia College. — J. W. Hart has been appointed professor of extension work 

 in dairying in cooperation with the Dairy Division of this Department, with 

 which he has been connected. The college will operate an educational train 

 during February and March in cooperation with the railroads of the State. 

 A federated agricultural association has been formed with the object of bring- 

 ing together and unifying the efforts of all the agencies interested in the agri- 

 cultural development of the State. The cotton school and other short courses 

 have been largely attended. 



H. W. Moore has been appointed tutor in animal husbandry. 



Maine Station. — Dr. Frank M. Surface, associate biologist, has resigned to 

 accept a position as research assistant in the department of animal husbandry 

 at the Kentucky Station. He is to be succeeded by Dr. E. P. Humbert, of this 

 Department. W. W. Bonus (Cornell, 1909) has been appointed associate 

 horticulturist. 



Minnesota University. — Dr. George Edgar Vincent, dean of the faculties of 

 arts, literature, and science in the University of Chicago, has accepted the 

 presidency of the university and will enter upon his duties April 1. 



Nebraska University and Station. — George K. K. Link has been appointed ad- 

 junct professor of agricultural botany in the university and assistant botanist 

 in the station, vice G. Herbert Coons, whose resignation has been previously 

 noted, and has entered upon his duties. 



New Jersey Station. — Dr. W. H. S. Demarest, president of Rutgers College, 

 has been appointed acting director. William D. Hoyt, Ph. D., a graduate of the 

 University of Georgia and graduate student and fellow at Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant botanist and bacteriologist. 



•Ohio Station. — Among recent appointments are the following: Paul Thayer 

 as assistant horticulturist. A, E. Perkins as assistant chemist in dairy investi- 

 gations, and J. A. Stenlus as assistant chemist. 



Washington College. — Recent additions to the staff of the agricultural de- 

 partment include A. B. Nystrom, formerly of the Kansas College, as instructor 

 in dairying; J. D. Charlton, formerly of the Manitoba Agricultural College, as 

 instructor in farm mechanics ; and Miss Lillian Blanchard as instructor in 

 poultry production. 



Farming demonstration trains over three railway lines in this State, and a 

 farming demonstration boat on Puget Sound operated during the summer 

 months, reached a total of 34,450 people. 



Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. — This society held its 

 thirty-first meeting in Washington, November 15, 1910. It was addressed by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, who spoke on the subject of Training Men for 

 Agricultural Investigation. He showed how the Department is a training 

 ground for such men, who are placed under specialists and given instruction 

 and experience in special branches. He urged that more attention should be 

 given to preparing men for instruction and investigation in agriculture. The 

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