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drainage and irrigation, manures and fertilizers, field crops, types and breeds of 

 live stock, dairy lausbandry, animal breeding, feeds and feeding, and citrus 

 fruits and citrus culture. Tliere is no age limit or entrance examinations in 

 these courses, and the only expense incurred is for postage and the text-book. 



Ground has been broken for the new station building. Alfred Dickinson re- 

 signed as gardener October 1. 



Idaho University and Station.— lioeent appoiutuionts include W. H. Wicks as 

 professor of horticulture and horticulturist in the station ; F. W. Chamberlain, 

 D. V. M.. a graduate of the University of Vermont and the IS'ew York Veterinary 

 Ccllege, as professor of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry; L. F. 

 Childers, recently connected with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Depart- 

 ment, as agronomist ; and G. E. Frevert as assistant in dairying in the station. 

 Prof. J. M. Aldrich has been made consulting entomologist of the station. 



Illinois University. — New courses in agriculture extending over two and one- 

 half years are to be introduced into the academy which serves as a preparatory 

 school to the university. In these the first year will be given to a study of field 

 croi)s and soils, the second to animal husbandry, and the remaining half year to 

 orchard and garden crops. It is planned to make the entire course a demon- 

 stration of the feasibility of teaching secondary agriculture in the public schools. 

 It is also expected that these courses will afford a satisfactory means of in- 

 structing public-school teachers, who may cover the entire work in one year 

 while also pursuing some studies in the college of agriculture. 



Half semester courses in cooking, sewing, and the care and planning of the 

 home are also being offered in the academy, in connection with the department 

 of household science of the university. This department received an appropria- 

 tion of $2,500 per annum for the ensuing biennium from the last legislature, 

 and is preparing to offer additional university courses dealing with special 

 problems in connection with marketing, the storage of food, and the utilization 

 of waste, and in the economics of the family group. 



Purdue University and Station. — Recent appointments include in the college 

 of agriculture H. E. Kiger as instructor in animal husbandly, C. E. Craig as 

 assistant in agronomy, and G. M. Frier as assistant in extension work; and in 

 the station, P. H. Crane as assistant in dairy field work. 



Iowa College and Station. — The following are among the recent appointments : 

 W. W. Dimmoch as professor of veterinary medicine and research ; I. G. Mc- 

 Beth, of the Bureau of Soils of this Department, as assistant professor of soil 

 bacteriology and experimentalist in soil bacteriology ; A. Leitch, a graduate of 

 the Ontario College, as assistant professor of dairying and assistant dairy- 

 man ; J. H. Gordon, a 1900 graduate of the University of Missouri, as instructor 

 in daii'y bacteriology and assistant dairyman; J. R. Campbell as assistant in 

 botany in the college; R. E. Smith, a 1909 graduate of the college, as instructor 

 in soils; and J. W. Merrill, C. R. Bush, and L. E. Troeger as assistants in the 

 extension department. M. L. Bowman, professor of farm crops, has resigned. 



Kansas College. — A. B. Nystrom, assistant professor of dairy mechanics at 

 Ohio State University, has been appointed assistant in dairying. 



Maryland College. — Cornelius Beatty, formerly chemist at the Oklahoma Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed assistant chemist in connection with the state work. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — About 200 men applied for admission to 

 the entering class, of whom 131 were admitted, making the total registration 

 for the year 350. This is the largest enrollment in the history of the college, 

 and represents an increase of 100 per cent in the last 6 years. 



Work has been commenced on the new building for the eutomological and 

 zoological departments. 



