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Iowa College and Station. — A recent decision of the state board of education 

 relative to the coordination of the instruction in higher education makes radical 

 changes in the scope of the existing state institutions. Under the new plan all 

 work in engineering will be concentrated at the College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts ; the courses in professional education and the literary arts at 

 the State Teachers College extending beyond the sophomore year will be dis- 

 continued and centered at the State University; and ail courses in general 

 science and domestic science at the College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts 

 will be discontinued and a school of household arts established at the State 

 University. It is proposed to put the new plan into effect at the end of the 

 present college year. 



L. A. Maynard, assistant in chemistry, and H. C. Cosgriff, field superintendent, 

 have resigned, and will be succeeded respectively by J. C. Reese and C. R. Forest. 



Kansas Station. — Director E. H. Webster has resigned to become associate 

 editor of HounVs Dairyman, January 1, 1913. 



Kentucky University and Station. — The establishment of a series of about 12 

 demonstration farms of about 20 acres each has been authorized, and arrange- 

 ments whereby four of these farms, all located in the western part of the 

 State, will be donated to the station have been practically completed. 



Dr. J. H. Kastle has been appointed dean of the college of agriculture and 

 director of the station. Frank T. McFarland, a 1912 graduate of the Ohio State 

 University, has been appointed instructor in botany. 



Louisiana Stations. — R. G. Fuller and Rene Baus have resigned as assistant 

 chemists in the field and fertilizer laboratory. 



Mississippi Station. — B. W. Anspon, assistant horticulturist, has become pro- 

 fessor of Uoriculture and landscape gardening at the Maryland College. 



Cornell University. — John W. Spencer, widely known as the organizer of the 

 farmers' reading courses, the nature study courses for children, the junior 

 naturalists' clubs, and the junior gardeners' clubs, died at Ithaca October 24, at 

 the age of 69 years. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Alva Agee has resigned as professor of 

 agricultural extension and secretary of the school of agriculture to become, 

 on December 1, head of the extension service of the New Jersey College and 

 Stations. C. F. Shaw has resigned as assistant professor of agronomy and 

 agronomist to become soil technologist in the University of California. John W. 

 Gregg has resigned as assistant professor of horticulture and assistant horti- 

 culturist to become professor of landscape engineering in the University of 

 California, beginning January 1, 1913. 



Rhode Island Station.— Dr. H. J. Wheeler, whose resignation as director has 

 been previously noted, has been appointed to the newly established position of 

 agricultural-chemical expert of the American Agricultural Chemical Company, 

 beginning December 1. 



Virginia Truck Station.— F, E, Miller, a recent graduate of the University of 

 Missouri, has accepted the position of assistant horticulturist. J. E. Pickett 

 has been appointed horticultural foreman. 

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