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California University and Station. — The enrollment in the correspondence 

 courses, established only a few months ago, is now 7,000, of whom 6,000 stu- 

 dents are taking courses in agriculture. The largest registration has been in 

 poultry raising. 



Richard Laban Adams has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy 

 and assistant agronomist. Carl Spencer Milliken has been appointed assistant 

 superintendent of agricultural extension, with headquarters at Riverside, and 

 J, A. Armstrong assistant in agricultural extension in the college and station. 



Georgia Station. — R. F. Crittenden, one of the oldest members of the board 

 of directors, died March 8, and has been succeeded by W. D. Hammack of Cole- 

 man. A department of agronomy has been substituted for the department of 

 agriculture created at the establishment of the station. 



Idaho TJniversity. — W. H. Olin has resigned as director of the extension 

 department to become agricultural commissioner for the Denver and Rio Grande 

 and Western Pacific railways, entering upon his new duties April 1. 



Indiana Station. — Chester G. Starr has been appointed assistant in swine 

 production beginning April 15. 



Massaclmsetts College. — The sixth annual farmers' week had an enrollment of 

 over 1,500, considerably exceeding that of any previous year in spite of un- 

 favorable weather conditions. Sections were provided in field crops and farm 

 management, animal husbandry and dairying, poultry husbandry, fruit growing, 

 market gardening, floriculture and forestry, home economics, and co&munity 

 development. 



Missouri Station. — The forestry department has started an extensive experi- 

 ment with 533 fence posts of 27 kinds of wood to test the economy of preserva- 

 tives. The different treatments include charring, treating with hot carbolineum, 

 and the use of hot creosote by the brush and tank methods. 



Montana College and Station. — G. L. Martin, professor of dairying and assist- 

 ant dairyman at the North Dakota College and Station, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of dairying in the college, beginning May 1 and succeeding 

 Roy C. Jones, who has accepted a position as county agriculturist with head- 

 quarters at Tillamook, Oreg. E. J. Quinn, of the oflSce of the Indiana state 

 geologist, has been appointed assistant chemist in the station vice H. H. Morris, 

 resigned. H. B. Bonebright has resigned as assistant agricultural engineer. In 

 the extension service, John C. Taylor and R. A. Blanchard have been appointed 

 county agents for Fallon and Cascade counties respectively, George H. Cook 

 specialist in agronomy, and W. J. Hartman live stock specialist. Joseph G. 

 Morgan has been appointed assistant in the grain laboratory. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The extension service has been reorganized 

 as a division of the college of agriculture coordinate with the station. Super- 

 intendent C. W. Pugsley has been made director of the extension service. H. C. 



