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Arizona University and Station. — The 1914 farmers' short course attracted an 

 attendance of 103. This was an increase of 33 over the previous year and was 

 also deemed encouraging in that a much smaller proportion of students came 

 from the immediate vicinity. A state farm improvement association was organ- 

 ized from among those present to cooperate with the station in studies of farm 

 practice, the dissemination of improved seeds, the organization of local asso- 

 ciations, boys' corn clubs, and similar bodies, and otherwise aid in improving 

 farms and farm life. 



The extension department has arranged a series of popular agricultural lec- 

 tures in Phoenix under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and the Board of Trade. 



It is expected that ground will be broken this spring for the new $650,000 

 agricultural building and that this will be completed in 1915. 



Arkansas University and Station. — The department of home economics has 

 been transferred from the college of arts and sciences to the college of agricul- 

 ture and plans laid to enlarge the service of this department. 



Arrangements have also been made for the establishment of a plant for the 

 manufacture of antihog cholera serum in connection with a packing plant in 

 Little Rock. 



Connecticut College. — A new laboratory course in greenhouse management is 

 to be offered as a senior elective. 



The college extension service has been devoting considerable attention to the 

 organizing of the various counties, Murray D. Lincoln, a graduate of the 

 Massachusetts College, has been appointed county agent for New London 

 County beginning April 13. It is expected that an organization will be effected 

 in Hartford County in the near future, while three other counties have the 

 matter under consideration. 



L. H. Schwartz has been appointed Instructor in poultry beginning about 

 July 1. 



Georgia Station. — C. K. McClelland, agronomist of the Hawaii Federal Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed agronomist beginning about June 22. 



Purdue University. — The establishment of a course in farm management has 

 been authorized by the board of trustees. 



Iowa College and Station. — Arthur W. Griflin, formerly of the supervising 

 architect's office of the U. S. Treasury Department, has been appointed assistant 

 chief in agricultural engineering and will make a study of farm structures. 

 Philip L. Blumenthal (Ph. D. Yale) has been appointed assistant chemist. 



W. J. Kennedy has resigned as head of the extension work. Paul C. Taff of 

 the extension division has been appointed acting director. 



Kansas College and Station. — A 4-year course in highway engineering, optional 

 in the civil and highway engineering course, and a 4-year course in agricultural 

 engineering with three 4-year options in farm machinery, irrigation and drain- 

 age engineering, and flour milling, are to be offered. 



The enrollment at the beginning of the spring semester was 3,014. 



Louisiana Stations. — It has been decided to transfer the irrigation experiment 

 with rice, which has been under way during the i)ast four years, to the Bureau 

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