414-428, Technical Bulletins 48-56, popular editions of Bulletins 415, 417, 418, 419, 422, and 423, and Circulars 47 and 48, all of which have been previously noted, and of Circulars 49, The Cherry Leaf-beetle, by F. Z. Hartzell and P. J. Parrott; 50, Periodical Cicada in 1916, by P. J. Parrott and H. E. Hodgkiss; and 51, Some Insects Attacking the Pear, and Their Control, by P. J. Parrott. Report of the Porto Rico Insular Station, 1916-17 (Rpt. Bd. Comrs. Agr. P. R., 6 (1916-17), pp. 131, figs. 8).—This contains the organization list, a report by the director for the fiscal year 1916-17, and departmental reports, the experimental features of which are for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue.

Annual Reports of Virginia Station, 1915 and 1916 (Virginia Sta. Rpts. 1915-16, pp. 213, figs. 36).—This contains the organization list, reports of the director and heads of departments, financial statements for the fiscal years ended June 30, 1915, and June 30, 1916, and a number of special articles and reprints of Technical Bulletins 12-18, abstracted elsewhere in this issue.

Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio Experiment Station (Mo. Bul. Ohio Sta., 3 (1918), No. 3, pp. 65-98, figs. 16).—This contains several articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue, together with the following: Spring Wheat, by C. G. Williams; Seed Corn for 1918, by C. G. Williams; Using Forage in Pig Feeding, by W. L. Robinson; Beet-sugar Production, by C. E. Thorne; Delayed Applications of Lime-sulphur, by P. Thayer; Dormant Spray Controls Peach Leaf Curl; Climbing Roses, by W. E. Bontrager; and notes.

Monthly bulletin of the Western Washington Substation (Washington Sta., West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bul., 5 (1918), No. 12, pp. 173–188).-This number contains brief articles on the following subjects: Growing and Marketing of Grapes, by R. T. Reid (see p. 49); The Importance of Investigational Work in the Field of Marketing, by A. Hobson; Lousiness in Domestic Animals, by J. W. Kalkus; Dairy Feed Supply, by W. A. Linklater; and War Chicks, by Mrs. G. R. Shoup (see p. 75).

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Arizona University and Station.-E. P. Taylor, of the extension service, has been appointed assistant dean of the college of agriculture. G. E. Thompson, extension specialist in crops in the Kansas College, has been appointed head of the department of agronomy.

Arkansas University and Station.-Science states that W. S. Fields has resigned as assistant professor of plant pathology and assistant plant pathologist to take up work as extension plant pathologist under the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, with headquarters in Mississippi. G. G. Becker, assistant professor of entomology and entomologist, has resigned to enter military service, and was succeeded June 20 by W. J. Baerg.

California University and Station.-It is announced that over 34,000 students are now enrolled in the 27 correspondence courses in agriculture offered by the university. A two months' course at Davis in practical farming was recently completed by several women.

Dr. J. C. Whitten, professor of horticulture and horticulturist at the Missouri University and Station, has accepted a position as head of the division of pomology.

Georgia College.—John T. Wheeler, assistant professor of horticulture in the Massachusetts College, has been appointed head of the department of agricultural education, with L. M. Sheffer as assistant in charge of agricultural education work in secondary schools.

Hawaii College.-L. A. Hanke has been appointed head of the department of agriculture.

Purdue University and Station.-A second division of the Boys' Working Reserve has completed its training under the school of agriculture, making available several hundred boys for farm service.

C. M. Vestal, in charge of animal nutrition work at the Kansas College and exchange professor during the past year with the University of California, has been appointed associate in animal husbandry. Dr. G. H. Roberts has been appointed associate veterinarian in the station. J. C. Beavers, assistant in soils and crop extension, resigned August 31 to return to his farm in North Carolina, and R. A. Nehf, assistant in horticulture, to enter a Coast Artillery camp.

Iowa College and Station.-Recent appointments include the following assistants: Edgar Collins in agricultural engineering, D. M. Merrill, P. E. Nordaker, H. J. Harper, B. J. Firkins, A. J. Elwell, T. H. Benton, P. C. Wiechman, C. H. Artiss, and F. M. Russell in the soil survey, F. S. Wilkins in farm crops, A. R. Morgan in dairying, and J. L. Horsfall in entomology. Leave of absence for the duration of the war on account of military service has been granted 0. F. Jensen, assistant in field crops, and D. E. Bailey, assistant in dairying. Dr. Orren Lloyd-Jones, associate professor of animal husbandry, and Paul M. Wolf, assistant in the soil survey, have also resigned.

Kansas College.-Arrangements have been completed for the enrollment of the students of the Kansas City Veterinary College, which is closing for the period of the war.

Dr. C. W. McCampbell, associate professor of animal husbandry and secretary of the State Live Stock Registry Board, has succeeded W. A. Cochel, resigned, to become western field man of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association, as head of the department of animal husbandry. H. F. Lienhardt, in charge of poultry disease investigations, has been granted leave of absence for the period of the war to engage in military service as second lieutenant in the Medical Corps.

Louisiana Stations.-G. D. Cain, chief chemist of the fertilizer control laboratory, has been appointed assistant director of the North Louisiana station at Calhoun. W. M. Hall, assistant chemist at the State station, has been appointed chief chemist of the fertilizer and feedstuffs control laboratory. J. H. Jolley and C. F. Sheffield have been appointed assistant chemists.

Maryland College and Station.-President A. F. Woods has been selected as chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the National Research Council. Recent appointments include the following assistants: C. C. Shivers in veterinary medicine, A. M. Smith in soil chemistry, and S .V. Eaton in plant physiology.

Minnesota University and Station.-H. H. Kildee, chairman of the dairy husbandry division, has resigned to become chief of the animal husbandry division of the Iowa College. J. S. Montgomery, associate professor of animal husbandry, has resigned to engage in commercial work, and Earl Weaver and H. R. Searles, respectively, assistant dairy husbandman and instructor in dairy production, to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.

Thomas Shaw, professor of animal husbandry from 1893 to 1903, died June 26, aged 75 years. Prof. Shaw was a native of Ontario, and from 1888 to 1893 was instructor in the Ontario Agricultural College. He was the author of several text-books covering a wide range of agricultural topics.

Missouri Fruit Station.-F. W. Faurot, whose resignation as extension assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Missouri has been recently noted, has been appointed director.

Nebraska University.-C. W. Pugsley, director of the extension service, has resigned to become editor of Nebraska Farmer, and was succeeded July 14 by Charles E. Gunnels, formerly State leader of county agent work.

Nevada Station.-The station is planning a study of methods of increasing hay production in the Humboldt Valley, largely by improved methods of irrigation and cultivation, and in cooperation with the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Cornell University and Station. The summer session of the College of Agriculture had an enrollment of 334 persons. At the request of the State authorities a special course in agriculture for vocational teachers was offered, with a registration of 20. This course was open only to persons not in the draft and experienced in farming.

Dr. V. B. Stewart, assistant professor of plant pathology and plant pathologist, has accepted an appointment in the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and is engaged in work on the pathological inspection of vegetables. E. R. King, assistant professor of entomology, has been commissioned second lieutenant in the Aviation Corps.

North Carolina Station.-Through a State appropriation the station has added about ten offices to its quarters in the building of the State Department of Agriculture.

The recent establishment of a sheep experimental farm in the mountain section of Mitchell County, in western North Carolina, has materially enlarged the facilities of the station for studying sheep under actual farm conditions. The farm is in charge of W. R. Radford.

Dr. J. Kemp Plummer, soil chemist, has been given leave of absence for the period of the war to work on the manufacture of explosives.

North Dakota College and Station.-Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, head of the department of agricultural chemistry in the Missouri University and Station, has been appointed director. Dr. H. L. Kraybill, assistant physiologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been appointed chemist in the station, to succeed W. L. Stockham, resigned to accept a position with this Department. Other appointments include Miss Cecil Yampolosky and Dr. Wanda Weniger as assistant botanists and plant pathologists, and Miss Ada Lewis as assistant professor of home economics.

Ohio Station.-L. L. Rummell has resigned as editor to become associate editor of the Ohio Farmer.

Pennsylvania College and Station.-R. S. Smith, assistant professor of agronomy and assistant agronomist, resigned June 1. J. W. Miller, assistant professor of botany and assistant botanist, has been granted leave of absence to engage in military service. Recent appointments include J. W. Mitten as assistant in dairy husbandry and W. S. Beach as instructor in plant pathology research at the field laboratory at Bustleton, effective June 1; and R. G. Bressler as professor of rural sociology, F. T. Struck as associate professor of agricultural education, and George Wehrwein as associate professor of rural economics, effective September 1.

South Dakota College and Station. The new poultry building is under construction. E. L. Dakan, recently appointed assistant in poultry husbandry at the Missouri Station, has been appointed to take charge of the poultry department, and it is expected to begin experimental work at an early date. Reginald Sherwood, assistant professor of chemistry and assistant chemist, and George Gilbertson, instructor in entomology, are now in military service. Tennessee University and Station.-Plans are being prepared for a central administration building, to cost about $500,000, and an armory building, to cost about $150,000.

Provision has been made for the establishment of a new department to take charge of activities under the Federal Aid Vocational Education Act.

The forty-fifth annual session of the East Tennessee Farmers' Convention was held at the station farm, May 14-16, with an attendance of approximately 3,000 persons. The program consisted almost entirely of topics bearing on war activities, and action was taken whereby the entire membership fees of the year, aggregating about $1,000, are to be devoted to the purchase of bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan.

Capt. William Rule, secretary of the board of trustees, has resigned after 50 years of service on the board and has been succeeded by Thomas D. Morris, treasurer of the board. Captain Rule has been given the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Utah College and Station.-The new live stock building has recently been completed but is being used as a barracks for soldiers stationed at the college for technical training.

A department of range management has been established in the college and station, in charge of Raymond J. Becraft.

Virginia Station.-E. T. Batten, superintendent of the Nansemond County Substation at Holland, has been called for military service.

Virginia Truck Station.-Albert White, assistant horticulturist, resigned July 15 to enter military service.

Wisconsin University and Station.-J. L. Tormey, associate professor of animal husbandry and animal husbandman, has resigned to become field man of

the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association. E. R. McIntyre, assistant in agricultural journalism, has resigned to become associate editor of Wisconsin Farmer.

Wyoming University.—Dr. S. K. Loy has resigned as professor of chemistry to engage in commercial work. Miss Greta Gray, of the Kansas State Normal School, has been appointed head of the department of home economics.

United States Food Administration.-Dean H. L. Russell has returned to the University of Wisconsin. His duties have been divided between Dean W. R. Dodson, of the Louisiana University, who will deal with matters of joint interest to the Food Administration and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and E. S. Brigham, commissioner of agriculture of Vermont, who will head the butter and cheese section.

Studies of Instruction in Vocational Agriculture.—A cooperative agreement has been adopted between the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Education, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education respecting the studies relating to instruction in agriculture authorized by the Federal Aid Vocational Education Act. These studies, which under the terms of the act may be made in cooperation with or through the Department of Agriculture or the Bureau of Education, are to be carried on under the direction of the Federal Board. A committee representing each of the three agencies is to be formed to consider and recommend projects to the Federal Board. Investigators under approved projects may be detailed by the Department of Agriculture or the Bureau of Education to the Federal Board or representatives of the board may be detailed to cooperate with the other departments in making the studies. The results are eventually to be published by the Federal Board.

Agricultural Education in Mysore, India.-Three grades of agricultural education are being offered in Mysore and meeting with popular success, viz, (1) higher education, in the English language, leading to a diploma at the Hebbal School; (2) a somewhat lower grade of training given at the vernacular school at Chikkannahalli; and (3) rural science classes in selected rural vernacular schools sanctioned by a Government order of March 22, 1916, which aims at combining some agricultural training with elementary education. Four such schools were started recently, the work being under the supervision of a rural science supervisor who visits each school once a week and who is under the direction of the Deputy Director of Agriculture. The head masters of these selected schools had taken a course in agricultural training in the Mysore Normal School, followed by a course in May and June at the Hebbal School under the direction of the rural science supervisor. It is proposed to continue these vacation courses for teachers who are to give instruction in agriculture in the rural schools.

Agricultural Rehabilitation in France.—According to a letter printed in Breeder's Gazette from C. N. Arnett, now on leave from the Montana College and Station, a 500-acre farm at Ferme le Courbat, Le Liege, Indre et Loire, France, has been leased by the American Red Cross as an agricultural center for the reeducation of French mutilated soldiers. Barracks and farm equipment have been provided, and it is expected to accommodate from 125 to 150 men at one time. Courses in agriculture of 3, 6, and 12 months' duration are contemplated, including both lectures and practical work. It is estimated that about 65 per cent of these men came originally from farms and it is hoped in this way to restore them to the land and so help solve the future agricultural problem of France.

New Experiment Station at Guadeloupe, French West Indies. This station has been recently organized by the Syndicat des Fabricants de Sucre of Guade