NOTES. 



Colorado College. — An agricultural demonstration train with 4 carloads of 

 illustrative material from the college, and with over 200,000 pieces of farm 

 literature for distribution, was sent out in March over the entire systems of 

 8 railways in the State. 



James D. Marshall (Wisconsin, 1910) has been appointed instructor in 

 agronomy. 



Connecticut College and Station. — The dairy department has acquired a power 

 outfit for the manufacture and storage of ice cream. 



Delaware College and Station. — The recent legislature appropriated $10,000 to 

 complete the equipment of the college farm, $10,000 for general repairs and 

 maintenance, and $9,000 for agricultural extension. 



Georgia College and Station. — The educational train operated by the college 

 of agriculture in cooperation with the railroads has completed its tour of the 

 State, reaching the great majority of the counties, making 160 stops, and being 

 Tisited by 350,000 persons. It is reported that the great interest taken in this 

 enterprise is resulting in many changes in agricultural practice, and that it has 

 been the medium of a closer cooperation between the city and country. 



J. D. Price and M. G. Gamble have been appointed to the board of directors, 

 vice James B. Park and George Gilmore. 



Illinois TTniversity and Station. — ^An educational trolley train was sent out by 

 the extension department over the lines of the Illinois Traction System, Feb- 

 ruary 27 to March 10. The train was run in the interest of the rural schools 

 and was equipped and provided with specialists from the college of agriculture, 

 who cooperated with the county superintendents of 9 counties. 



The second annual conference on the teaching of nature-study agriculture in 

 the rural elementary schools of Illinois was held at the college January 18-21, 

 in connection with the short course in agriculture, 



O. D. Center, associate in crop production in the college and first assistant 

 in crop production in the station, resigned April 1 to accept the position of 

 superintendent of state farmers' institutes for Illinois, with headquarters at 

 Springfield, 111. Burt L. Rickards, chief of laboratories of the Ohio State 

 Board of Health, has been appointed assistant professor of dairy bacteriology 

 and municipal milk methods. 



Purdue University and Station. — At the recent session of the state legislature 

 agricultural extension in Indiana was given material support through the 

 passage of a bill which provides an appropriation of $10,000 for the fiscal year 

 ending September 30, 1911, and $30,000 annually thereafter. This appropriation 

 is in addition to an annual grant of $10,000 provided by the State for extension 

 work by the station and is further supplemented by a clause in the act under 

 which each county may appropriate for local expenses, such as hall rent, 

 l>rinting, etc., 25 cents per square mile, which gives a further increase of about 

 $11,000. 



It is expected that this legislation will do much to encourage extension activi- 

 ties in the State. A department of agricultural exension has been established 

 to have direct charge of the extension work of the university and to be coordi- 

 nate in rank with the school of agriculture and the station. Prof. G. I. Christie, 

 previously superintendent of agricultural extension, has been designated head 

 of the new department. The lines of work contemplated at present include 

 instruction to farmers through short courses, farmers' institutes, educational 

 trains, conferences, clubs, etc. ; demonstrations in spraying, pruning, hog-cholera 



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