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Maryland College and Station. — "William Stanley has been elected a stockholder 

 member of the board of trustees, vice George Calvert resigned. Reuben Brig- 

 ham, in charge of publications and publicity for the past two years, has been 

 appointed assistant state leader in charge of boys' club work. Kenneth Cole 

 has succeeded W. E, Hanger as assistant in agronomy in the station. 



Minnesota University and Station. — ]Most of the state appropriations have been 

 considerably reduced for the ensuing bieuniuni, the total for the university 

 being about $1,100,000 less than for the present biennium. The reductions are 

 largely in the appropriations for new buildings and extension work. There is 

 also some reduction in station maintenance which will require the elimination 

 of projects on tobacco, weed eradication, and agricultural engineering. The 

 maintenance appropriations for the substations, however, were increased; at 

 Crookston from $39,900 to $45,400, at Morris from $25,000 to $34,500, at Grand 

 Rapids from $7,000 to $10,000, at Duluth from $6,100 to $7,600, at Waseca from 

 $3,900 to $4,400, and at the fruit breeding farm at Zumbra, from $2,000 to 

 $4,000. 



An addition to the home economics building was authorized at a cost of 

 $45,300, as well as $30,000 for repairs in the heating plant and $S,750 for other 

 improvements, including the remodeling of the old home economics building for 

 soils work. A farm engineering building and a -dormitory at Morris, to cost 

 $45,000 and $15,000 respectively, are provided and $2,500 for the purchase of 

 additional land. Farm cottages are authorized at Crookston, Morris, and 

 Zumbra. There is $15,000 for county agent work and $30,000 for the hog 

 cholera campaign, of which $10,000 is for alterations in the plant. The total 

 for agricultural work is about $1,341,050, with $213,814 additional from fed- 

 eral funds. 



Recent appointments include Robert C. Ashby, formerly of the Washington 

 College and Station, as assistant professor of animal husbandry, Jean MacKin- 

 non as assistant professor of nutrition, and Lucile Wheeler as assistant pro- 

 fessor of foods and cookerj'. 



Missouri University and Station, — The department of soils has been authorized 

 to locate three additional soil experiment fields, the first on the Lindley loam 

 (the rough timber land) of north central Missouri, the second on the Clarks- 

 ville silt loam in the south central Missouri Ozarks, and the third on the 

 Waverly silt loam on the lowlands of southeast Missouri. 



A summer forestry camp is being maintained on a part of the 50,000 acres 

 of forest land belonging to the university. 



Until further notice the hog-cholera serum is to be sold to citizens of the 

 State for immediate use at 1.2 cts. iDer cubic centimeter, or 1.4 cts. in case the 

 field demonstrator is sent to apply the serum. Dr. J. B. Gingery has been 

 appointed superintendent of the hog-cholera serum laboratory and will have 

 charge of the manufacture and distribution of the serum. 



Other appointments include E. H. Rucker and Percy Werner, both 1915 

 graduates of the university, as assistants, the former in poultry husbandry, 



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