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Kansas College and Station. — The legislature has just made the lai 

 appropriations for the Institution yel granted. For the ensuing biennlum 



$1,675,500 has been authorized, in addition to the grant tor extension work to 

 meet 1 1 1« - requirements of the Smith-Lever Act, and liberal appropriations for 

 the various substations. The appropriation for the college represented an 

 Increase of $400,000, or approximately :<.'< per cent, while the annual Btation 



allotment is increased from $40,000 to $50,000. Among the new items is 



ski, (KMi for a hog plant and equipment 



Dr. H. R. Dykstra, professor of surgery and acting head of the department 



Of veterinary medicine, lias hoon appointed head of the department. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Dr. Fred K. afutchler, director of agri- 

 cultural extension, has resigned effective June 30 to accept a commercial 

 position. In the station, A. L. Brueckner, on leave for military service, has 

 resumed Ids position as assistant in animal pathology, and N. M. Cregor lias 

 been appointed assistant In bacteriology. 



Maine Station. — The legislature has appropriated $5,000 for the years 1919 

 and 1920 to aid in the maintenance of the Hlghmoor farm. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Special six weeks' shod courses in 

 agriculture and horticulture for returning soldiers and sailors, held in Febru- 

 ary and March, were SO successful as to lead to their repetition from April 14 

 to May 24, with courses in soils and fertilizers, field crops, types and breeds of 

 live stock, poultry husbandry, farm management, farm machinery, fruit grow- 

 ing, nnd dairying. Special provision is expected to be made during the summer 

 term beginning June 30, find at subsequent dates if there is sufficient demand. 



J. C. McNutt, head of the animal husbandry department, has been granted 

 six months' leave of absence to organize the work in animal husbandry for the 

 Army Overseas Educational Commission. J. C. Graham, poultry husbandman, 

 has been granted a year's leave of absence, which he will spend at the Red 

 Cross Institute for the Blind at Baltimore, Md., where he Is to head the agri- 

 cultural division and develop courses of training adapted to the needs of the 

 blind along agricultural lines. R. B. Cooley. of the extension department of 

 Rhode Island College, has been appointed animal husbandman In the extension 

 department, beginning April 1. 



Minnesota University and Station. — The legislature has passed a law 

 making it mandatory upon county commissioners to appropriate for the support 

 of county agricultural extension and home demonstration work whenever a 

 county farm bureau has been organized and requests the appropriation, and 

 raising the maximum limit of the sum which may be so appropriated to .■>.'<.<><'<> 

 In each county. An appropriation of $86,000 to provide the State's share of the 

 expenses of county agent work has been provided. 



Henry W. Vaughan, professor of animal husbandry and assistant animal 

 husbandman at the Iowa College and Station, has been appointed professor of 

 animal husbandry and animal husbandman, beginning July 1. Adele Koch has 

 been appointed home economics lecturer in agricultural extension. 



Albert Hoversten has resigned as superintendent of the Waseca substation 

 find has been succeeded by Robert E. Hodgson, a 1918 graduate of the college 

 A. C. Heine has been appointed instructor in agricultural engineering at 

 Morris. 



Missouri University and Station. — 1 »ean F. B. Mumford has been aj>- 

 polnted agricultural representative on a Commission of American Universil 

 to visit France, with a view to cementing more closely educational and economic 

 relations. M. F. .Miller has been designated as acting dean of the college of 

 agriculture and director of the station during hi< absence. 



