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weeds and weed seeds, and grasses. The second group, designed for students 

 expecting to teach in secondary or normal schools, will include a special 

 teacher's course, taking up the content of a course in botany in such schools, 

 the method of approach, equipment of the laboratory, source of material, etc. 

 The three groups will comprise electives in technical lines, including advanced 

 plant physiology, mycology, plant pathology and its methods, plant nutrition, 

 plant physics, technique, cytologj', and heredity. 



More work is also being required in the college in English composition, and 

 additional college credit for the subject is being allowed. 



B. A. Knowles, a 1915 graduate, has been appointed instructor in poultry, 

 effective February 3, vice W. H. Tully resigned. W. N. Clark has resigned as 

 instructor in animal husbandry, effective March 10, to become manager of a 

 dairy farm near Chicago. P. B. Wiltberger, instructor in entomology in the 

 University of Maine, has been appointed instructor in entomology and assistant 

 in the station, vice G. O. Woodin. 



Minnesota University. — The first annual short course for agricultural editors 

 was held at the college of agriculture beginning February 13, with an attend- 

 ance of i.bout 150. 



Nebraskri University and Station. — The attendance at the annual farmer's 

 week is ic;' irted to have approximated 1,500. The new dairy husbandry build- 

 ing was ... v^icated during the week. The principal addresses were by President 

 R. A. I'u.ason of the Iowa College, who was given the honorary degree of doctor 

 of agriculture, and J. H. Frandsen, w^ho spoke on The New Dairy Building and 

 the Field of Dairy Husbandry. 



T. W. Nicolet, assistant professor of landscape architecture, has resigned to 

 become instructor in horticulture at the University of Illinois in connection 

 with courses in design and plant materials in the division of landscape en- 

 gineering. J. A. RatclifE has resigned as assistant professor of experimental 

 agronomy, effective April 1, to engage in farming in Oklahoma. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The inauguration of President Wal- 

 lace C. Riddick took place February 22. The principal addresses were by Dr. 

 H. S. Drinker, Hon. Herbert Quick of the Federal Farm Loan Board, former 

 President D. H. Hill, and President Riddick. 



Plans are under way to give the seven test farms in the State the status of 

 substations, thereby emphasizing the experimental features rather than deraon- 

 strational work in general farming. Many of the station activities with crops, 

 animals, etc., are already carried on at these farms, and it is hoped to arrange 

 for additional funds and equipment for their development. The Pender sub- 

 station at Willard is to be devoted especially to work with truck crops, the 

 Buncombe substation at Swannanoa is to specialize in small grain and orchard 

 crops, and the Winona substation is to study the handling of muck soils. 



R. G. Hill and S. C. Clapp, assistant horticulturist and assistant entomolo- 

 gist respectively, at the main station, have been transferred as assistant 

 directors in charge of the Pender and Buncombe substations, and H. Barker 

 has been appointed assistant director in charge of the Winona substation. 



J. E. Moses, county agent in Escambia County, Alabama, has been appointed 

 pig club agent in the extension service. 



Ohio State University. — The enrollment for farmer's week exceeded 4,000. 

 Farmers' associations numbering 16 met during this period. 



Pennsylvania College. — Nickolas Schmitz, agronomist at the Maryland Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed professor of agronomy extension beginning February 

 17, and Miss Martha S. Pittman, instructor In home economics extension be- 

 ginning February 12. 



