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building for pomology and market gardening, especially fruit storage work, 

 and $17,500 for additional land. 



C H. Fernald has resigned as director of the graduate school, professor 

 of zoology, and entomologist in the station after 24 years' service, on account 

 of advancing years, and has been appointed honorary director of the graduate 

 school. Dean George F. Mills, of the college, has been granted leave of 

 absence for the ensuing year on account of continued ill health. J. A. Foord 

 has been appointed permanent head of the division of agriculture, and H. T. 

 Fernald entomologist in the station. 



Michigan College. — The establishment of a veterinary college was ratified 

 at the last meeting of the governing board. Four-year and five-year courses 

 are to be offered with entrance requirements the same as to other college 

 courses. The first year and part of the second year are to be coordinate with 

 the same years in the agricultural course. 



The .1/. A. C. Record of May 3 announces the adoption of a one-year profes- 

 sional course for agricultural teachers, open to graduates of state normal 

 schools in the life-cei-tificate courses and to other graduates of reputable col- 

 leges who have had two or more years of experience in teaching. The new 

 course requires the election of at least 75 units of the technical subjects offered 

 in the regular four-year agricultural course. Candidates may thereafter, if 

 they desire, secure the regular bachelor's degree in agriculture by completing 

 the remaining subjects in the agricultural course. Ir is expected that this 

 teachers' course will attract the attendance of a considerable number of students 

 who need only technical information to become good teachers of agriculture. 



A four weeks' sunnner course in agricultural practice opened June 20. This 

 course is open to all students, but is designed especially for those who have 

 not been trained to do farm work. College credits will not be given for 

 these courses, which are considered entrance prerequisites. There will also 

 be a summer term in forestry from June 2S to August 11, on the State Forest 

 Reserve, and a conference of ministers at the college July 12 to 15, with 

 lectures each forenoon by President Rutterfield of the Massachusetts College 

 and others, an open confei'ence each day at 11 a. m., and afternoon lectures and 

 demonstrations in horticulture and domestic science, the latter for ministers' 

 wives. 



Minnesota University. — At a meeting of the board of regents May 13, the divi- 

 sion of forestry was detached from the college of agriculture and organized as 

 an independent college, with Prof. S. B. Green as dean. 



Mississippi College and Station. — Under a new state law a single board of 

 trustees has been appointed for this college, the Alcorn Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College, the State University, and the Industrial Institute and 

 College at Columbus, taking effect July 1. The personnel of this boai'd is as 

 follows : G. A. Mcllhenny, Forest ; J. S. Sexton, Hazlehurst ; B. A. Weaver, 

 Columbus; J. A. Glenn, Starkville; T. L. Wainwright. Stonewall; I. C. Enochs, 

 Jackson ; and James Gordon, Okolona. 



J. J. T. Graham has been appointed assistant chemist in the station. 



Missouri University and Station. — The third county substation to be estab- 

 lished under the Act of 1907 has been located in Lewis County neai- Lewistown, 

 with E. L. Xewlou as superintendent. The chief lines of work will be in testing 

 varieties of corn, wheat, and oats, with some attention to fertilizer and soil 

 fertility experiments. 



Recent appointments include Dr. D. H. Dolley, of the University of North 

 Carolina, as professor of pathology and bacteriology; E. J. Durand, of Cor- 

 nell University, as assistant professor of botany ; D. H. Doaue, for several 

 years connected with the Dairy Division of this Department, as assistant 



