98 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECOKD. 



New Hampshire College. — A four-year course in tiome economics Is to be 

 offered, beginning with the next college year. 



Rutgers College. — An industrial fellowship in plant pathology for the study 

 of the diseases of the potato has been established. 



Cornell University. — The legislature has granted $334,000 to the college of 

 agriculture for the construction of buildings. This will provide for the com- 

 pletion of the auditorium, forestry building, animal husbandry building, heat- 

 ing plant, additional small buildings for the poultry department, and the 

 erection of barns for hogs and sheep, a hothouse, and a new rural schoolhouse. 



About 200 acres of open laud above a proposed university reservoir at Varna 

 has been put in charge of the forestry department for experimental and 

 demonstration plantations. Over 50 acres wei*e planted in 1912 and 1913, 

 chiefly to white pine. 



A summer school for leadership in country life, with a three-year graded 

 course as a part of its regular work, has been established. The purpose of the 

 school as announced is to provide a course of training for all classes of rural 

 leaders, such as rural ministers, secretaries of young men's and young women's 

 christian associations, officers of men's brotherhootis and other religious organi- 

 zations, boy scout masters, school superintendents, principals, and teachers, 

 editors, officers of granges, institute lecturers, and other persons who occupy 

 positions of leadership and influence in the open country. 



K. C. Livermore, M. W. Etarper, E. S. Savage, E. S. Guthrie, and C. R. 

 Crosby have been advanced to full professorships. L. S. Teuny has been ap- 

 pointed professor of rural development and state leader in farm demonstra- 

 tion work, beginning October 1. H. H. Whetzel has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence, which will be spent largely in graduate work at the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg. Royal J. Haskell has been appointed assistant in 

 plant pathology. 



Ohio State University and Station. — Plans are practically completed for the 

 new horticultural and forestry building at the university. This is to be a two- 

 storj' and basement structure, 250 by 82 feet. It will be divided vertically be- 

 tween the departments of horticulture and forestry, and will contain in addi- 

 tion to laboratories, class rooms, offices, etc., a cold storage room, spray room, 

 and an auditorium seating 500 persons. 



The biology building is already under construction. This is also a two-story 

 and basement structure of red pressed brick, and will house the departments 

 of zoology and botany. The special features include an aquarium and a bio- 

 logical museum, and greenhouses and an insectary are to adjoin it. A botanical 

 garden and arboretum are to be laid out nearby. 



The state appropriations to the station for 1913 aggregate $229,200. Of this 

 amount $40,000 is for administration, $18,500 for agronomy, $20,000 for animal 

 husbandry, $10,000 for botany, $5,000 for chemistry, $37,500 for cooperative 

 work, $10,000 for dairy husbandry, $8,000 for entomology, $12,000 for forestry, 

 $20,000 for horticulture, $8,000 for nutrition, $20,000 for soils, and $20,200 for 

 additional buildings and equipment. 



Oregon Station. — The state pure seed law was revised by the last legislature, 

 and an annual appropriation of $1,000 made to the station for the maintenance 

 of a seed testing laboratory. 



Clemson College and Station. — W. D. Evans, one of the state-elected members 

 of the board of trustees, died April 10. 



Tennessee University and Station. — The fortieth annual meeting of the East 

 Tennessee Farmers' Convention was held on the station farm May 20 to 22, 

 with an attendance of about 2,000. Dean H. A. Morgan is in Europe with the 



