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first, Massachusetts second, and Vermont third. George R. Pierce has resigned 

 as assistant chemist in the station to accept a commercial position in Cuba, and 

 B. G. Southwick has resigned as secretary to the director to become manager 

 of a farm iu Pennsylvania. 



Michigan College. — C. E. Newlander has been appointed instructor in dairy 

 manufactures and has entered upon his duties. Joseph C. Bock, instructor in 

 chemistry, has been appointed chemist in the nutrition laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington. 



Minnesota University and Station. — During the past summer the university 

 carried out a program of lectures and demonstrations, interspersed with en- 

 tertainments, over the State, which was divided into three circuits of six ac- 

 cessible centers each. Each circuit received a week's attention, and through 

 the use of six groups of lecturers each center in the circuit had the advantage 

 of the entire week's progi-am. The program included a farmers' day. a town 

 and country day, business men's day, a home welfare day, a public health day, 

 and an art and literature day. The expenses were met by an advance guaranty 

 from each community of $300. 



One feature of the program was the farmer boys' camps, held at most of the 

 centers. The camp leader drilled his boys in farm mechanics, took them to 

 farms and gave them lessons in stock judging, nnd led them in other ways. 

 T'he object of this university week wns to bring the people of town and country 

 together to receive instruction of a kind " to increase the attractiveness, dignity, 

 and profit of life on the farm and in the town." 



Recent appointments include Arthur C. Smith as poultrymau; E. W. Major, 

 of the University of California, as associate professor of animal nutrition and 

 assistant dairy husbandman; C. W. Howard, of the Rockefeller Institute, as 

 insti'uctor in entomology and assistant entomologist: ^Nlasaji Kugimoto as as- 

 sistant in animal nutrition; and Mark J. Thompson in chai-ge of the farm at 

 Duluth. 



Plans have been approved for a dairy Inboratory at the North Central Farm 

 at (Trand Rapids. The Cloquet substation is to be maintained on a cooperative 

 basis with this Department. 



Missouri University and Station. — A course in rural economics is being offered 

 for the first time in connection with the regular course in agriculture. The 

 work is being given by S. D. Gronier, recently appointed secretary of the uni- 

 versity extension service. The first term of the two-year winter course in agri- 

 culture opened with .an enrollment of 183 students. 



The station has begun to issue a series of numbered press bulletins in addi- 

 tion to the jn-ess notices previously sent out. 



John A. Ferguson, professor of forestry, has nccepted a similar position at 

 the Penn.sylvania College, this taking effect January 1, 1913. Recent appoint- 

 ments include Ernest C. Pegg as instructor in forestry, and the following as- 

 sistants in the station : L. B. Burke in animal husbandry, Ray Evans and 

 M. A. R. Kelly in agronomy, William Regan in dairy husbandry, and T. T. Tucker 

 in veterinary science. C. B. Hutchison, assistant professor of agronomy, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence to take up graduate work at Cornell 

 University. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Recent appointments include H. E. Bradford 

 as princii)al of the school of agriculture. J. R. Cooper, of the Kansas College, 

 «s assistant professor of horticulture and assistant horticulturist. Miss Alice M. 

 Loomis, of the Wisconsin ITniversity, as profes.sor of home economics, and Miss 

 Anna Olsen as adjunct professor of home economics. 



New Hampshire College. — W. R. Wilson, a 1912 graduate of Cornell University, 

 has been appointed instructor iu dairying. 



