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Arkansas ITniversity and Station. — J. H. Millei", dean of the extension division 

 at the Kansas College, hns been appointed dean of the extension service liegin- 

 ning July 14. "W. C. Lassetter will continue as director of agricultural exten- 

 sion. A special effort is to be made to cari-y the benefits of the station woi'k to 

 the farmers through the agency of the extension workers, looking to the station 

 as authority for facts in the instruction placed before the farmer. 



H. A. Sandhouse, of the Colorado College, has been appointed assistant in 

 animal husbandry, vice D. H. Branson, who resigned July 1 to take up graduate 

 work. G. W. Hervey, of Rutgers College, has been appointed assistant in animal 

 husbandi-y for special poultry work, beginning August 1. George L. Caldwell 

 has been appointed assistant in veterinary science, beginning September 1, and 

 will also assist in research work in bacteriology. 



Florida ITniversity and Station. — At the recent session of the legislature 

 $16,500 was appropriated for the station during the biennium, $.5,000 being for 

 maintenance, $4,000 for repairs and fixtures, and $7,500 for printing. 



Director P. H. Rolfs of the station has been made dean of the college of agri- 

 culture, beginning July 1. W. C. Etheridge, assistant in farm crops at Cornell 

 University, has been appointed professor of agronomy. M. N. Beeler has been 

 appointed to have charge of extension publications beginning July 1, as well as 

 of the correspondence courses and a short course to be offered in agricultural 

 journalism. 



Georgia College. — J. P. CamiJbell has been appointed director of extension 

 work. 



Kentucky ITniversity and Station. — J. N. Camden, of Versailles, has succeeded 

 L. L. Walker as a member of the board of control. A department of animal 

 pathology and diseases of live stock was established July 1 with Dr. Robert 

 Graham as head. Dr. Philip Lee Blumenthal, whose resignation from the Iowa 

 Station has been previously noted, has been appointed research chemist, and 

 H. K. Wright to a position in connection with the hog cholera serum laboratory. 



Missouri University and Station. — J. O. Rankin, assistant agricultural editor 

 at the Wisconsin University and Station, has been appointed agricultural editor 

 beginning September 1. Among his duties will be the organizing and editing of 

 the publication work of the college of agriculture and station, the supplying of 

 agricultural items directly to the farm press, and the furnishing of news items 

 regarding the college of agriculture to the university publisher. Other appoint- 

 ments include J. S. Gardner as as.sistant in horticulture beginning September 1, 

 and D. J. Griswold as research assistant in animal hu.sbandry beginning July 1. 



Ohio State University and Station. — It is announced that of the 190 1915 

 graduates in the four-year course, 75 per cent were expecting to engage imme- 

 diately in farming. Of the remainder, 10 per cent were to take up agricultural 

 leaching and 5 per cent graduate work. 



Plans for the new home economics building call for a three-story E-shaped 

 structure, with 182-foot frontage and 136-foot wings. The first story will be 

 of Bedford limestone and the remainder of brick. The main portion will con- 

 tain offices, class rooms, a museum, etc., while the wings will be occupied by 



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