NOTES 



Connecticut State Station. — Howard V. Huber, .specialist in market gardeu- 

 ing, has rcsij^iied to accept a posilioii iu ihe extension service of llutgers 

 College. 



Iowa College and Station.-Tbe new animal husbandry laboratory is nearing 

 completion. It is a one-st<»ry building 74 by 112 ft., costing about ^.jO.OOO. It 

 ha.s been devised especial Ij' for work iu connection with the slaughtering, 

 dressing, cutting, and curing of meats. The bsisement contains a 10-ton refrig- 

 erating plant, coolers, a smokehouse, refining, sausage, lard, and other l\v- 

 product rooms, offices, etc. The main floor can be dividetl into three distinct 

 rooms, or used as a whole for demonstration work. 



The recent short course and fanu<>r's week was more largely attended than 

 ever before, the aggregate reaching 3,500. About 400 of these were iu the 

 junior work. 



A State-wide egg laying contest is being planned by the State Poultry 

 Breeders' As.sociation, to be held at the college next year if sufficient facililies 

 can be made available. 



Howard C. Barker, assistant professor in dairy husbandry extension work. 

 has resigned to engage in farming. W. G. Gaessler, assistant chief of the ch;Mii- 

 ical .section of the station, has been granted leave of absence until September for 

 graduate work at the Ohio State University, during which time G. P. Plaisance 

 will act as as.sistant chief. W. H. Johnson, assistant in the soils section, has 

 been gi-anted leave of absence until July for special graduate study at the Uni- 

 versity of \\'isconsiu, his work to be carried on by Knute Espe. W. G. Kaiser, 

 a.s-sistant in the agricultural er\giueering section, resigned January 4. 



Kansas College and Station. — The estimated attendance at the exercises of 

 farm and home week. Fel)ruary 5 to 10, was 1,800, an increase of 500 over 

 the previous year and representing 9G of the 105 counties of the State. An 

 attempt was made to meet the interests and needs of all classes of visitors by 

 arranging the program in groups under tlie heads of agriculture, home eco- 

 nomics, engineering, boys' and girls' work, cream station operators and butter 

 makers, State associatitms, and exhibits and contests. The exhibits of the boys' 

 and girls' clubs and the mother and daughter canning clubs, as well as those 

 of the college and station, attracted particular attention. 



Dr. F. S. Schoenleber, for 12 years head of the department of veterinary 

 science, has resigned effective March 1. Dr. John Patterson has been appointed 

 in.structor in veterinary medicine, beginning February 1. John L. Bayles, as- 

 sistant in agronomy at the Garden City substation, has resigned to accept a 

 position in the agricultural department of the St. Louis and San Francisco 

 liailroad Co. 



Michigan College and Station. — According to a note iu the M. A. C. Record, 

 the botanical courses for students in agriculture ai"e to be reorganized. The 

 freshman work is to remain substantially as at present, but following this 

 there will be ttiree groups of electives. The first of these, known as applied 

 botany, will be designed for students expecting to engage in work closely asso- 

 ciated with farm life, and will include studies of economic plants, plant repro- 

 duction, general plant physiology, diseases of economic plants and their control, 



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