594 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Iowa College. — The extension department is carrying out an extended pro- 

 gramme of short courses both at the college and at other points in the State, ten 

 such courses being contemplated during the winter. One of these courses was 

 held January 20-24, at Cedar Rapids, and was attended by about 300 men and 

 200 women. Prof. P. G. Holden was in direct charge of the work and was 

 assisted by three instructors in farm crops, three in animal husbandry, and 

 two in domestic science. The courses for men were so arranged as to give 4 

 alternate periods of 90 minutes each for Instruction in farm crops and stock 

 judging daily. The farm crops work was devoted largely to corn, including 

 instruction on seed selection and improved cultural methods, with some atten- 

 tion to oats and wheat, drainage, and other topics. The work in animal hus- 

 bandry consisted largely of lectures and judging practicums with horses and 

 beef and dairy types of cattle. In the domestic science course there were 

 lectures and demonstrations throughout the week on cookery, sewing, and other 

 phases of home making. The business men of Cedar Rapids, who were re- 

 sponsible for securing the short course in that city this year, have already 

 taken steps to incorporate an association to provide for similar courses 

 annually. 



Maine Station. — Miss Lottie E. McPheters has been appointed computer in 

 connection with the breeding statistics in the corn and poultry investigations. 



Massachusetts College. — The summer school of agriculture which was organ- 

 ized in litOT and enrolled over 200 pupils, is to be continued this year from July 

 6 to August 14. The first four weeks are planned esitecially for school teachers 

 and the final two weeks primarily for preachers, with courses in technical agri- 

 culture during the entire period, this arrangement affording opportunity for two- 

 week, four-week, or six-week courses. Nineteen courses are offered, including 

 agricultural pedagogy, high school agriculture, high school chemistry, soils and 

 tillage, field crops, domestic animals, practical gardening, gardening investiga- 

 tions, trees and shrubs, floriculture, plant life, elementary plant physiology, 

 bird life, insect life, nature study drawing and forestry, and lectui'es on the 

 agricultural industry in New England, agricultux-al economics, and the social 

 aspect of agriculture, besides field exercises, round-table conferences, excursions, 

 etc. 



Michigan College and Station. — R. S. Shaw has been made dean of the de- 

 partments of agriculture, veterinary, horticulture, and forestry. George B. 

 Schafer, now a graduate student at Cornell University, has been appointed 

 research assistant in entomology, and S. L. Jodidi assistant chemist, their 

 work to be entirely under the Adams Act. 



Cornell University. — A notable departure in the college of agriculture is the 

 substitution of professorships of farm crops, farm practice, soils, plant path- 

 ology, plant physiology, and plant biology (plant breeding) for the former 

 department of agronomy. 



In order that pedagogical unity may still be preserved the various professors 

 are now associated into an unofficial committee or subfaculty for the proper 

 coordination of the work. The management of the college farm has been in- 

 trusted, under the general supervision of the dean, to the professor of farm 

 practice, with whom arrangements for land and other facilities may be arranged 

 by other departments of the college as desired. The professor of farm practice 

 is to give instruction in this subject, both by means of lectures and by labora- 

 tory work in the barns and fields. 



Recent appointments include Edward R. Minns, as assistant farm manager 

 and instructor in farm practice; Elmer S. Savage, as assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry ; A. C. Publow, as first assistant in cheese making ; M. B. Cummings, as 



