798 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



North Dakota College. — A " little coimtry theatre," seating about 200 persons, 

 has been fitted up on the second floor of the administration building. It is 

 proposed to utilize this in college work and also as an extension enterprise 

 by disseminating information regarding plays or entertainments deemed adapt- 

 able for rural communities. 



Ohio State University and Station. — Two types of scholarships have been 

 established in the college of agriculture. In the first, three scholarships of 

 three years each in the short course are assigned to each county, being 

 awarded to the winners in the corn growing and other contests conducted by 

 the state agricultural commission. In addition, the State is divided into four 

 districts, each of which will receive five scholarships of four years each on 

 the basis of a competitive examination on high school agriculture. 



Announcement has been made by the agricultural commission that the ex- 

 tension activities of the State will continue to be conducted by the college of 

 agriculture. 



A bronze tablet in memory of the late Dr. H. A. Weber, professor of agri- 

 cultural chemistry for many years, is to be placed in Towushend Hall. 



A county experiment farm for Washington County is to be located by the 

 agricultural commission at Fleming, where a tract of 170 acres, mostly hill 

 land, has been selected. A tract of 10 acres, mainly terrace land, about 4 miles 

 north of Marietta will also be used for work with truck crops. 



M. C. Thomas and C. Ellis Bundy have been appointed county agricultural 

 agents for Miami and Paulding counties respectively, L. E. Morgan assistant 

 in nutrition, and Miss Mabel Corbould assistant chemist in milling and baking 

 technology in the station. 



Porto Rico University. — It is announced that the board of trustees has decided 

 to reorganize the college course on a more elementary or preparatory basis, 

 as most of the students who have entered the college have come direct from 

 the eighth grade and have not been fitted to take up the collegiate work in the 

 various branches of engineering and sciences leading to a degree. The 

 trustees think it will be 10 years or more before there will be a student body 

 available requiring the technical training usually offered by a college of 

 agriculture and mechanic arts. 



Virginia Station. — Director S. W. Fletcher has resigned to take effect July 1. 



Virginia Truck Station. — Loren B. Smith, a recent graduate of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant state entomologist with headquarters at 

 the Truck Station for the study of truck crop insects. 



West Virginia University and Station. — Since the beginning of the year, 13 

 county agricultural agents, 9 district school superintendents in charge of boys' 

 club organizations, and 9 women county agents in charge of girls' canning clubs 

 have been appointed in cooperation with the farm demonstration work of this 

 Department. During the past winter 24 one-day agricultural schools have been 

 held in as many counties with 867 registrations and 642 visitors, and 11 four- 

 day schools in home economics with 379 registrations and 278 visitors. 



J. B. Huyett. president of the State Live Stock Association, has been appointed 

 assistant in animal husbandry in cooperation with this Department and will 

 make a live-stock survey of the State and carry on cooperative experiments in 

 the feeding of beef cattle. F. S. Jacoby, associate professor of poultry hus- 

 bandry in the Ohio State University, has been appointed temporary assistant 

 for field work in poultry husbandry to study poultry methods, particularly mar- 

 keting, in Jackson and neighboring counties during June, July, and August. 

 Horace Atwood, the station poultryman, has been appointed agricultural agent 

 for the Panhandle Agricultural Club in Ohio County, but will retain his conuec- 



