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Arkansas TTnlversity and Station. — A 3 months' short course in agriculture has 

 been established and opened with a good attendance. Domestic science courses 

 have also been offered for the first time, more applicants being received than 

 could be accommodated. 



W. C. Thompson, assistant in animal husbandry, has resigned to become 

 experimentalist in poultry husbandry at the New Jersey State Station and has 

 been succeeded by D. H. Branson, animal husbandman at the Kansas College 

 and Station. W. H. Yv'icks of the Idaho University and Station has accepted 

 the position of horticulturist made vacant by the resignation of Ernest Walker, 

 previously noted. L. H. Seymour, assistant in horticulture, has resigned to 

 accept a commercial position. 



Maryland College. — J. E. Metzger, a graduate of the Pennsylvania College and 

 director of agriculture in the agricultural high school at Fergus Falls, Minn., 

 has been appointed professor of agricultural education beginning January 1. 

 He will begin his duties with a survey of the work now being done in the rural 

 schools of the State in teaching agriculture and other vocational subjects. 

 B. H. Darrow, a graduate of the Ohio State University and principal of the 

 agricultural high school at Marion, Ohio, has been appointed Y. M. C. A. sec- 

 retary, and in addition to his work at the college will make a survey of rural 

 churches and do extension community work through the Y. M. C. A. and 

 churches of the State. 



Massachusetts College. — Associate professors Lockwood and Graham have 

 been advanced to full professorships in dairy and poultry husbandry, respec- 

 tively. E. M. McDonald has been promoted to the assistant professorship of 

 agronomy. 



Michigan College. — George R. Johnstone and Ford S. Prince, 1913 graduates of 

 the University of Illinois, have been appointed instructors in botany and soils, 

 respectively. F. A. Wilken, who has had charge of the substation at South 

 Haven, resigned November 1, 1913. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Frank C. Dean has been appointed agricul- 

 tural editor beginning January 15. 



Nevada University and Station. — Dr. P. B. Kennedy, who has had charge of 

 the department of botany, horticulture, and forestry since 1900, resigned 

 January 1 to become assistant professor in agronomy in the University of 

 California. Dr. Maxwell Adams, professor of chemistry, has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence for study In Europe. 



North Dakota College and Station. — H. O. Werner has been appointed instructor 

 In horticulture and assistant horticulturist. 



Ohio State University and Station. — A census of the freshman boys shows that 

 56 per cent come from the farm, 39 occupations other than farming being 

 represented, some of them in considerable numbers. Work on the new gi-een- 

 houses for which $5,000 has been appropriated will be begun in the near 

 future. Special attention is to be given to floriculture. 



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