NOTES. 295 



Iowa College and Station. — M. Mortensen. wbo has served as instructor 

 during the short courses iu dairying for several years, has been appointed 

 acting head of the dairy department, and H. 0. Horneman has been appointed 

 extension worker in dairying. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — According to a note in Demeter, the 

 university has been organized into six colleges, among which are a college of 

 agriculture and the Audubon Sugar School. The agricultural courses have been 

 rearranged to provide additional eleetives and greater opportunity for speciali- 

 zation. There has also been added a two-year pi-eparatory school of agriculture 

 with A. F. Kidder as principal. 



B. F. Hochenedel has resigned as assistant chemist in the Sugar Station to 

 engage in commercial work. 



Michigan Station. — A grant to the bacteriological laboratory of $1,500 has been 

 made from state funds for the purpose of manufacturing hog-cholera serum 

 according to the method suggested by the Bureau of Animal Industy of this 

 Department. About SO liters of serum have been manufactured and 1,819 ani- 

 mals, representing 33 herds, have been treated with a subsequent mortality of 

 about 12 per cent. A charge of 1 ct. per cubic centimeter for virus and 2 cts. 

 per cubic centimeter for serum is made, which covers the cost of production 

 other than that of buildings and permanent equipment. 



Mississippi Station. — J. A. McLean, of the Iowa College and Station, has 

 accepted the position of animal husbandman. 



Nebraska University and Station. — INIartin Nelson has resigned as adjunct 

 professor of field crops in the university and assistant in field crops in the sta- 

 tion to accept the position of agriculturist in the Arkansas University and 

 Station. W. W. Burr has been appointed assistant in soils and crops at the 

 North Platte Substation in connection with the cooperative work with the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



Cornell University and Station. — The Avork of the College of Agriculture in 

 rural economy, hitherto under the immediate direction of the dean as professor 

 of rural economics, has been formally organized as a separate department in 

 charge of G. N. Lauman, who has relinquished his secretaryship to the faculty./ 



A biological station has been erected in the marshes at the head of Cayuga 

 Lake with water gardens and other facilities for the study of problems in 

 limnology. The research work now under way in this department deals chiefly 

 with the study and development of the forage food of fishes as the beginning of 

 an effort to develop water agriculture. 



C. S. Wilson has been appointed assistant professor of pomology, thereby 

 bringing about a further differentiation of the horticultural department, and 

 C. A. Rogers has been appointed assistant professor of poultry husbandry. 

 Other recent appointments include the following : As instructors, E. S. Guthrie, 

 of Ohio State University, in butter making, Milton Pratt Jones, in extension 

 teaching, and George E. Burnap iu rural art; as assistants in the College of 

 Agriculture, Lewis J. Cross in agricultural chemistry in its relation to agri- 

 culture, Leonard Haseman in entomology, and M. M. McCool and M. F. Barrus 

 iu plant pathology ; as research assistant, Scott H. Perky in rural economy ; as 

 fellow in agriculture, Arthur W. Gilbert in plant breeding; and as assistants in 

 the station, Fred J. Pritchard, Harry H. Love, and Eugene P. Humbert in plant 

 breeding, and J. O. Morgan and Harold J. Conn in soil investigations. 



North Carolina College and Station. — Dr. W. A. Syme has been promoted to 

 the assistant professorship of chemistry in the college, and Hubert Hill has 

 been appointed instructor in chemistry. J. K. Plummer has been appointed 

 assistant chemist in the station. 



