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The live stock pavilion is nearing completiou. It is a fire-proof structure of 

 steel, brick, concrete, and terra-cotta with a ringside seating capacity of from 

 1,800 to 2,000. and will cost about $100,000. 



An estate of 320 acres has been purchased at a cost of $256,000 for enlarging 

 and developing the horticultural work, including forestry. A new group of 

 floricultural buildings is under construction, which it is believed will constitute 

 one of the most complete plants for instruction and research in the world. It 

 includes a range of eight greenhouses, a storage hou.se, a corridor house, and 

 a service building. The greenhouses cover an area of about 28,000 square feet 

 and may readily be increased to G.j.OOO square feet. Three of the greenhouses 

 are to be used for instruction and four for research. The service building is a 

 two story and basement structure of brick and stucco, 37 by 95 feet. 



Dr. C. G. Hopkins has been granted a year's leave of absence to engage in 

 agricultural development work in the South under the auspices of the Southera 

 Settlement and Development Organization. Albert W. Jamison has been ap- 

 pointed as.sociate in agricultural extension and Joseph H. Checkley assistant in 

 that subject. 



Purdue University and Station. — A rural life conference was held at the 

 university October 13-17. including meetings of the various county agents and 

 farmers' institute workers. 



Recent appointments include E. H. Johnson as instructor in animal hus- 

 bandry, H. A. Noyes, a recent recipient of the M. S. degree from the Massachu- 

 setts College, as research assistant in horticultural chemistry, J. W. Schwab as 

 assistant in extension work in animal husbandry. Fred D. Fromme and H. C. 

 Travelbee as assistants in botany, and C. B. Durham as assistant in horticul- 

 ture. 



Iowa College and Station. — According to Wallaces" Farmer a course of six 

 lectures is to be given by members of the extension department at the theological 

 seminary of Drake University upon farm crops, soils and farm management, 

 animal husbandry, dairying, poultry, horticulture, and rural landscape garden- 

 ing. 



W. C. Coover has been made head of the department of chemistry, vice A. A. 

 Bennett resigned. Other appointments include Harry C. Hetzel as instructor 

 in horticulture. A. W. Griffin as assistant chief in agricultural engineering, vice 

 M. L. King resigned. George S. Tilley as assistant chief in dairy investigations. 

 A. T. Erwin as associate professor of truck crops and landscape gardening, 

 Russell Dunn as assistant chief in animal husbandry, R. S. Potter, Ph. D., as 

 assistant in soil chemistry, M. E. Sar as assistant in soils, and Elmer Scales as 

 assistant in farm crops. W. E. Ruth has resigned as assistant in chemistry and 

 C. R. Forest as superintendent of field experiments. 



Kansas College and Station. — The college observed its fiftieth anniversary 

 October 28-30. The speakers at the elaborate exercises included Governor 

 Hodges, I-Ion. G. T. Helvering, Chancellor Strong of the University of Kanstis, 

 Dean Davenport of the University of Illinois. President Stone of Purdue Uni- 

 versity, Dr. A. C. True of this Office, David G. Fairchild of this Department, 

 and many others. A feature was the student parade illustrative of the various 

 activities of the institution. 



The new live stock barns are nearing completion. There will be two wings 

 50 by 80 feet and one 50 by 60 feet for horses and cattle. A nutrition bam 32 

 by 92 feet, and a hog bam 22 by 48 feet, have been completed. 



The dairy department is starting a series of experiments at the Fort Hays 

 3ub.station to determine the most profitable of the following practices: (1) To 

 feed the bull calves on skim milk the first year and then keep them on grass 

 the following suramer before marketing; (2) to feed them whole milk and 



