NOTES, 



Arkansas TTniversity and Station. — The college of agriculture is now oEEering 

 ten correspondence courses in agriculture. Over 32.5 students are taking these 

 courses, representing 67 counties of the State. 



C H. Tourgee. professor of dairy husbandry in the university and dairy hus- 

 bandman in the station, is no longer connected with the institution. 



Purdue University and Station. — C. E. Cx'aig has resigned as instructor in 

 agronomy to become agi'onomist in the Polytechnic School at Porto Alegre, 

 Brazil. J. W. Wellington has resigned as assistant horticulturist to engage in 

 practical fruit growing in Massachusetts, and has been succeeded by Joseph 

 Oskamp. 



Iowa Station. — T. J. Maney has been appointed assistant experimentalist in 

 horticulture, and has entered upon his duties. 



Maryland College. — A three-weeks' course on the breeding and care of farm 

 live stock and dairying has been offered, beginning February 26. and a course 

 in home economics extending from March 18 to 23. 



Mississippi College and Station. — A new board of trustees has been appointed, 

 consisting of the following: Gov. Earl Brewer and State Superintendent of 

 Instruction J. N. Powers, of Jackson, ex officio ; T. W. Carter, Calhoun City ; 

 E. M. Clark, Natchez; Robert Powell, Jackson; J. W. Cutrer, Ciarksdale; T. B. 

 Franklin, Columbus; O. F. Lawrence, Grenada; and James Gordon, Okolona. 

 W. F. Kirkpatrick has resigned as instructor in poultry husbandly and poultry- 

 man to accept a position with the Connecticut College and Station. 



Missouri University. — The college of agriculture is offering for the first time 

 five-day courses in a limited number of localities in the State, employing two 

 men for the work. 



Nebraska University. — The department of agricultural extension has organ- 

 ized two corresix)ndence courses, one in soils and the other in field and forage 

 crops. These courses have been prepared primarily to meet the needs of high- 

 school teachers of agriculture. 



Rutgers College. — The total enrollment in the short courses this year was 

 128, which was much larger than at any previous session. 



Oregon College. — A course in highway chemistry has been added, to give 

 si>ecial prominence to the testing of materials and the study of surface pro- 

 tection of roads. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — A course in agricultural education ex- 

 tending over four years will be offered next year. The primary object of this 

 course will be to prepare teachers of agriculture for secondary schools. 



H. R. Fulton, associate professor of botany in the college and botanist in the 

 station, has been appointed botanist and vegetable pathologist in the North Caro- 

 lina College and Station. H. P. Baker has accepted a position at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity as denn of the State College of Forestry, established in 1911 by the 

 New York legislature with an initial appropriation of $55,000. 

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