396 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Iowa College and Station. — The college is offering for the first time a corre- 

 spondence course of 90 lessons in farm plants and soils for teachers. A corre- 

 spondence course of 80 lessons in farm animals will be ready about April 1, one 

 in home economics about July 1, and special courses in farm crops, 'soils, horti- 

 culture, animal husbandry, dairying, poultry raising, and home economics will 

 be offered in the fall to teachers desiring advanced correspondence work. 



M. E. Sar has resigned as assistant in the soil survey and has been succeeded 

 by Knute Espe (1015). S. C. Guernsey has resigned as assistant in chemistry. 



Kansas College and Station. — It is reported that over two-thirds of the 1914 

 graduates in animal husbandry took up farming and that many of the remainder 

 are engaged in teaching or experimental station work. 



Over 400 students were enrolled in the short courses, 21G being in agriculture, 

 110 in home economics, and 82 in the new 10 weeks' courses in cement and con- 

 crete construction, shop work, road building, irrigation and drainage, and steam 

 and gas traction engines. 



Walter L. Latshaw has been appointed assistant in soil analy.sls in the station. 



Kentucky Station. — E. W. Mumma, assistant in charge of hog cholera serum 

 production, died December 4, 1914. H. B. Hendrick, agronomist in the exten- 

 sion department, resigned January 1 to accept an appointment with the Agri- 

 cultural Education Service of this Department. E. F. Worthington, inspector 

 in dairy sanitation in the food and drug department, also resigned January 1. 

 W. H. Simmons has been appointed assistant in the hog cholera serum labora- 

 tory, begimiing December 1, 1914. 



Louisiana University, — A new daily barn of modern construction has recently 

 been completed. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — A plan recently approved by the faculty 

 for submission to the board of trustees contemplates the offering of college 

 courses the entire year. Under this plan, practical coui-ses in agriculture and 

 horticulture would be offered during the summer months for which college 

 credit would be given. One advantage expected would be the completion of 

 the college course about April 1 instead of in June as at present, the former 

 being considered a more favorable time for graduates to secure employment. 



Charles E. Ward, of Buckland, a member of the board of trustees and of its 

 committee on the station, has resigned and has been succeeded by Edmund 

 Mortimer of Grafton. P. J. Anderson, Ph. D. (Cornell, 1914), formerly field 

 pathologist with the Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in botany. H. J. Baker, field agent in farm management, 

 has resigned to become head of the extension department at the Connecticut 

 College. F. H. H. Van Suchtelen, Ph. D., associate professor of microbiology, 

 and George E. Gage, Ph. D., associate professor of animal pathology, have been 

 added to the station staff as soil microbiologist and animal pathologist, re- 

 spectively. 



Minnesota University.— A new course under the supervision of the division of 

 agricultural education has been introduced in the school of agriculture for the 

 graduates of the school desiring to prepare themselves to teach agriculture in 

 the rural schools. The course will consist of two j-ears' work in selected sub- 

 jects, with special emphasis on agriculture and home economics. 



The extension division is conducting a state-wide bread-making test with 

 1,600 enrolled. The loaves are sent to the college by parcel post and judgeil by 

 the home economics department. Instruction is also being given in canning 

 vegetables. Over 3,100 boys were enrolled in the boys' acre-yield corn contest. 



Mississippi College and Station. — E. R. Lloyd, director of the station, was 

 appointed director of the extension work, December 1, 1914, and J. R. Ricks, 

 the station agronomist, was made vice-director of the station. Dr. H. B. 



