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Immediately adjoining it is being built a range of greenhouses, covering about 

 one-half acre. Eventually there will be ten of these houses, six being 25 by 75 

 feet, three 25 by 150 feet, and one 25 by 150 feet with a palm house 50 by 30 

 feet. Eight of these houses are already nearly completed. 



Harlan B. Hunger, assistant in farm cost accounting in the farm manage- 

 ment investigations of this Department, has been appointed professor of farm 

 management in the college and chief in farm management in the station. 



Kansas College. — Rev. Walter Burr, of Louisville, Kans., has been appointed 

 director of the rural service department in the extension division beginning 

 about August 1. Otis Earle Hall, a graduate of Wabash College and for the 

 past 8 years a county superintendent of schools in Indiana, has been appointed 

 supervisor of boys' and girls' club work beginning September 1. 



Kentucky University. — A demonstration of machinery suitable for preparing 

 agricultural lime was held during the week of June 22, with addresses on soil 

 fertility and the use of lime in agriculture. 



Massachusetts College. — Prof. George F. Mills has been made dean emeritus 

 and E. M. Lewis dean of the college. R. J. Watts has been appointed secretary. 

 Miss Helena T. Goessmann has been appointed instructor in languages and 

 literature and will offer a course on rural literature which, it is believed, is not 

 given elsewhere. 



Minnesota University and Station. — ^A week's conference of teachers of agi"i- 

 culture and home economics was held June 20-25, with special instruction by 

 members of the college faculty during the morning and conferences regarding 

 work in the high schools in the afternoon. The first Country Life Conference to 

 be held in the State took place the following week, with special attention to the 

 problems of rural ministers, social workers, and others interested in rural 

 social welfare. 



W. F. Lusk has been appointed assistant professor of agricultural engineering 

 beginning August 1, Dr. Howard C. Kernkamp assistant veterinarian in the 

 station, and Maiy G. Blythe instructor in clothing in the school of agriculture. 



Nebraska University and Station. — R. K. Bliss has resigned as professor of 

 animal husbandry and animal husbandman to become director of the agricul- 

 tural extension service of the Iowa College. 



New Hampshire Station. — J. B. Scherrer has been appointed vegetable 

 gardener. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — The new agricultural building has been 

 completed. It will house the departments of botany, plant pathology, soil 

 fertility, extension teaching, horticulture, and seed testing. 



The station poultry department has been assigned an area of about 20 acres 

 of land which will be developed for experimental work in poultry husbandry. 



A number of research fellowships have been recently established by indus- 

 trial concerns, among them the Chilean Nitrate Propaganda, and others are 

 anticipated. Thomas A. Edison has also provided an industrial fellowship for 

 the study of ground limestone as a factor in soil improvement. Nicholas Kope- 

 loff and R. C. Cook have been appointed research fellows under two of these 

 grants. 



Among other recent appointments are the following: Clarence E. Brett as 

 instructor In poulti-y husbandry ; Frank App, assistant professor of agronomy 

 and assistant agronomist at the New Hampshire College and Station, as as- 

 sistant professor of agronomy; and Miss M. Anna Houser and C. M. Arthur 

 in charge of extension work in home economics and marketing respectively. 

 Ward C. Pelton, in charge of extension work In market gardening, has resigned 



