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the western part of the state. Information 

 from -western South Dakota, where sugar 

 beets are being raised on a large scale, shows 

 that the price of land has greatly increased. 

 The loss of so many sugar factories in Belgium 

 and France is reported as stimulating efforts 

 to produce more sugar in this country. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. Hesry Freeman Walker has bequeathed 

 $100,000 to Middlebury College, to provide 

 full salary for a professor on Sabbatical leave, 

 any balance is to be used as an emergency fund 

 for members of the faculty. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 provision has been made by the Texas legis- 

 lature for establishing a third junior agricul- 

 tural college, to be known as the Northeast 

 Texas Agricultural College. An appropria- 

 tion of $250,000 has been made for its estab- 

 lishment and maintenance. The board of 

 directors of the State Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College is given control over the in- 

 stitution. State appropriations have also been 

 made for the station and substations aggrega- 

 ting $225,095 for the year beginning Septem- 

 ber 1, and $181,270 for the following year. 



A CHAIR of aviation has been founded in the 

 London University by M. Basel ZaharofE, who 

 before the war had established similar pro- 

 fessorships in the universities of Paris and of 

 Petrograd. 



Eoss Aiken Gortner, Ph.D. (Columbia), 

 associate professor of agricultural biochemis- 

 try in the University of Minnesota, has been 

 appointed professor and head of the division of 

 agricultural biochemistry in the university and 

 chief of the division of agricultural biochemis- 

 try in the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, succeeding E. W. Thatcher who be- 

 comes dean and director of the department of 

 agriculture in the same institution. E. Adams 

 Dutoher, assistant professor of agricultural 

 chemistry in the Oregon Agricultural College, 

 and Clarence A. Morrow, professor and head of 

 the department of chemistry in Nebraska Wes- 

 leyan University, have been appointed assist- 

 ant professors of agricultural biochemistry in 



the University of Minnesota. Clyde H. 

 Bailey, cereal technologist and assistant pro- 

 fessor of agricultural chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, who for the past year 

 has been on leave of absence and has been em- 

 ployed as chemist for the Minnesota State 

 Board of Grain Appeals, Minneapolis, has re- 

 sumed his duties in the university and has 

 been promoted to an associate professorship in 

 the division of agricultural biochemistry. 



C. W. Howard, associate professor of ento- 

 mology and parasitology of the University of 

 Minnesota, has accepted the position of pro- 

 fessor of biology in Canton Christian College, 

 Canton, China. Professor Howard will sail 

 from San Francisco the middle of October, 

 visiting Hawaiian Islands, Manila and Japan 

 en route. Canton Christian College is the only 

 institution of collegiate rank in South China. 

 The rapid growth of the agricultural and med- 

 ical departments has made necessary the or- 

 ganization of a department of biology. 



Dr. L. B. Arey has been promoted from in- 

 structor to associate professor of anatomy in 

 the Northwestern University Medical School. 



Dr. Eaymond Freas has been appointed ad- 

 junct professor of chemistry in the University 

 of Virginia. 



Dr. J. Arce has been appointed to a newly 

 established chair of tropical pathology in the 

 University of Lima, Peru. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS OF 



FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH DIFFERENT 



PHOSPHATES 



The interpretation of results of field experi- 

 ments with diilerent phosphates is of present 

 interest, especially as the conclusions reached 

 by several investigators are being challenged 

 by Dr. C. G. Hopkins, of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station." As is well known. 

 Dr. Hopkins has for several years been the 

 ardent champion of raw rock phosphate as a 

 fertilizer. He has been largely dependent, 

 however, on data secured by others. In fact, 

 not rnitil very recently had he published re- 



1 Hopkins, 0. G., ' ' Phosphates and Honesty, ' ' 

 111. Agri. Exp. Sta., Circular 186. 



