796 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORD. 



Iowa College and Station. — A two-story octagonal pavilion, 05 feet in diameter 

 and of pressed l)ricl<, is being erected for the farm crops and animal husbandry 

 laboratory work at an estiniate<.l cost of $ir>,(XX). It is to be connected with one 

 of the other pavilions used for similar work. 



H. B. Potter has resigned as assistant professor of farm crops to become 

 associate editor of Farm and Fireside. H. B. Kinney has been appointed 

 research laboratory assistant in soil chemistry. 



Kentucky Station. — The foundation for an addition to the present station 

 building, to cost .$.^)(),<)00, is under construction. This addition will be larger 

 than the present structure but otherwise practically a duplication. The chemi- 

 cal laboratories and the bacteriological, food, and feedstuff s work will be located, 

 in the new portion when comijleted. 



Massachusetts College. — Extension schools of agriculture and domestic science 

 are announced for the first time. It is planned to hold not to exceed one in 

 each county, each to last 5 days and local expenses to be met by the com- 

 munity. 



The correspondence courses are proving increasingly successful and a course 

 iu shade-tree management is to be added. The college is again cooperating 

 with the Springfield Y. M. C. A., which is arranging eight lecture courses in 

 agriculture, horticulture, landscape gardening, beekeeping, poultry keeping, 

 and dairying. The lectures are to be held in Springfield but the college fur- 

 nishes all speakers. 



Active cooperation has also been given to the first State corn show, which 

 was recently held in Springfield and was very successful. 



Minnesota University and Station. — ^^Iccording to the University Farm Press 

 News, the ilinnesota State Department of Public Instruction and the extension 

 division of the university are cooperating in a systematic effort for the intro- 

 duction of agriculture into the rural schools this year. A special monthly 

 leaflet from the extension division, called Rural School Agriculture, is being 

 sent to every rural school teacher in the State, with the idea of interesting 

 thereby the boys and girls each month in those things which are being done 

 on the farm and in the home during that month. Tests to be conducted at home 

 and the reports brought to school for discussion are suggested. 



D. A. Gaumnitz, assistant animal husbandman, and John Spencer, assistant 

 in veterinary science and veterinarian, have resigned to engage iu commercial 

 work. R. H. Williams has been appointed assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry in the university and assistant animal husbandman in the station. Dr. 

 B. A. Beach, research assistant in veterinary science in the station, has resigned 

 and is succeeded by Dr. W. L. Boyd. Johann Dittman has been appointed in 

 charge of the denatured alcohol plant and William Underwood investigator in 

 •wood preservation. E. C. Huntington has resigned as editor in agricultural 

 extension and farmers' institutes. 



Missouri University and Station. — Two new buildings, a veterinary building 

 and an implement building, have been added during the past summer. The vet- 

 erinary building is a stone structure, three stories high, 120 feet long and GO 

 feet wide. It contains two large operating rooms, a dissecting room, a large 

 lecture room, two large laboratories, and several smaller ones and offices. The 

 implement building is 30 by 80 feet, and is divided into eight compartments. 



The State Board of Horticulture is offering a prize of a $50 scholarship in 

 the short course to the boy selecting and sending in the best half peck of apples, 

 together with a paper setting forth why he chose the variety selected and what 

 treatment the trees ha\e received in the way of cultivation, spraying, pruning, 

 etc. The fruit sent in will be kept in cold storage and later exhibited at fruit 



