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Station, has been appointed animal husbandman in charge of breedins: investi- 

 gations beginning August 1, and is conducting experimets with sheep. Wil- 

 liam Levin and J. B. Rather have resigned as assistant chemists, and the former 

 has been succeeded by J. W. Chevv^ning, and he in turn by II. II. Ridgell. 



Virginia College and Station. — Glaucy Sheiman Ralston, research assistant 

 in horticulture at the Oregon Station, has been appointed assistant in the ex- 

 tension department of the college. Dr. M. T. Smulyau, a graduate of the Mas- 

 sachusetts College, has accepted a research position in entomology. 



Washington College. — F. L. Pickett, Ph. D., research fellow in botany in 

 Indiana University, has been appointed associate professor in plant physiology. 

 R. J. Barnett has been made professor of pomology. 



West Virginia University. — The enrollment in the college of agriculture is 

 100 per cent greater than that of last year. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Of the 1914 graduates of the college of 

 agriculture, R. V. Gunn has been appointed assistant in farm management, 

 George B. Mortimer instructor in agronomy, and J. C. Walker assistant in 

 plant pathology. W. A. Schoenfeld has resigned as executive secretary to be- 

 come specialist in farm accounting in the department of exteusiou of the 

 University of Texas. 



American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching.— The 

 fifth annual meeting of this association was held in Washington, D. C, 

 November 10. 



A report of the standing committee on the use of land in connection with 

 agricultural teaching, prepared by this Office, indicated that distinct problems 

 are presented in different sections. In the New England States the majority of 

 the pupils are living at home and have easy access to the school ; the school 

 farms are small and the home project is more or less closely supervised, so that 

 the need of the school farm is less felt. In the Northern and Central States the 

 school farms are small, but the pupils are drawn from greater distances than 

 tJiose in the New England States and have not access to as good means of 

 transportation. There are also a larger number of boys from towns and cities 

 and of girls desiring to become teachers in the classes studying agriculture. 



In the South the majority of the schools have a boarding department and a 

 large farm, so that the agricultural pupils have a better opportunity to partici- 

 pate in farm operations, and home projects have not been developed. Even in 

 these schools, where the pupils carry on the farm operations under the direct 

 supervision of the instructor, it is claimed too much attention has sometimes 

 been given to getting the farm work done and not enough to making the pupils 

 efficient in the ordinary farm operations. The report indicated that all schools 

 having farms, however, can aid the more readily in the distribution of pure- 

 bred seed, the introduction of new varieties of plants, fruits, and shrubs, and 

 the extending of the services of pure-bred animals in the community. 



The standing committee on cooperative use of equipment and illustrative 

 mjiterial reported that little progress has been made in the preparation and 

 use of such material during the past year. This Department is the only agency 

 at the present time producing motion-picture films for agricultural instruction. 

 It is urged that colleges provide prints or miniature drawings of all available 

 charts for the purpose of cooperative exchange. The motion picture is not 

 regarded as psychologically adapted to purposes of instruction, while, on the 

 other hand, lantern slides and charts are not so attractive and do serve as 

 valuable aids in the work of effective iTistruction. 



K. L. Hatch, in a paper on What Constitutes Suitable Extension Work for 

 Secondary Schools, advocated that the teacher of agriculture in the secondary 



