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experimental baking plant is to be operated, which will have the twofold pur- 

 pose of testing the bread-making capacity of flours from different kinds of 

 wlieat, and of conducting experiments in the technique of baking. Later it is 

 hoped to erect an experimental mill for use in a study of the milling qualities 

 of wheats and of milling operations. 



The new department will cooperate with the entomologist in studies of insects 

 damaging stored wheat and flour in transit, with the botanist to control plant 

 diseases which affect the quality of flour, and with the agronomist in the distri- 

 bution of improved seed wheat. Much interest is being manifested in the new 

 department, and the millers of the State are actively cooperating in its work. 



Hon. T. Blodgett, of ^Yichita, has been appointed to the board of regents, 

 vice Hon. W. A. Harris, deceased. A. M. Ten Eyck has been appointed director 

 of the Fort Hays Substation, and will enter upon his new duties about June 1. 

 The work at Fort Hays is to be materially enlarged. 



Louisiana University. — A two-weeks short course has been held for the first 

 time, beginning January 22. The subjects offered included stock judging and 

 feeding, dairying, forage crops, trucking, corn judging, fertilizers, soils, 

 economic botany and. entomology, ornithologj-, and the common ailments of 

 farm animals. There was a registration of 50, and the course is regarded as so 

 successful that extensive i)reparations for next year have already been begun. 



Minnesota University and Station. — ^The post-office address of the college and 

 station has been changed to University Farm, St. Paul. 



Arrangements have been made whereby 12 demonstration farms of 80 acres 

 each have been established, and plans are being completed for 7 similar fai'ms 

 in addition. The State Federation of Commercial Clubs is actively cooperating 

 in the enterprise, and a special feature is to be the foi-mation of a farmers' 

 club in each locality adjacent to the farms, to hold meetings for the general dis- 

 cussion of farm problems. 



E. C. Huntington, who has been connected with newspaper work in the State, 

 has been appointed chief editor of publications in the agricultural extension 

 and home education course, provided by the last legislature. In addition to 

 editing and presenting in popular form the various publications of the college 

 and station, it is planned to devise an elementary course in agriculture and a 

 correspondence course, and to arrange short lectures and demonstrations in 

 various parts of the State. George F. Howard, formerly a county superintend- 

 ent of schools, has been appointed rural school specialist. 



William liobertson, superintendent of the school of agriculture and substation 

 at Crookston, died January 11, at the age of 52 years. Professor Robertson was 

 graduated from Carleton College in 1885, and had also studied at the University 

 of Minnesota. He had had long experience in educational work, serving 8 

 years as a teacher in rural schools, 4 years as school superintendent, and 15 

 years as instructor in physics, botany, and other subjects at the college of agri- 

 culture. In 1905 he assumed charge of the substation at Crookston, and 2 years 

 later of the newly established school of agriculture. In the 3 years during 

 which the school has been under his guidance it has grown to an attendance 

 of 132, with 9 instructors and modern buildings and equipment. 



Theodore D. Urbahns, of the Bureau of Entomology of this Department, has 

 been appointed assistant in entomology. 



Missoiiri University and Station.— The college of agriculture has offered a 

 special two-weeks course in poultry husbandry, with F. H. Stoneburu, of the 

 Connecticut Storrs College and Station, as instructor. 



M. F. Miller has been granted a year's leave of absence for study in Europe, 

 to date either from June 1 or September 1. William H. Chandler has been 

 promoted to the grade of instructor in horticulture, and F. H. Demaree and C, B. 



