598 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



vaccination, county farm tests, etc. ; the development of rural school agriculture 

 by the preparation of study outlines, charts, school collections, lectures, assist- 

 ance in schools, etc. ; work in domestic science, with lectures, demonstrations, 

 etc. ; and the preparation and dissemination of publications on these various 



lines. 



Iowa College. — W. R. Hechler, a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, 

 has been appointed instructor in farm crops. 



Kansas College and Station.— Paul N. Flint, of the Arkansas University and 

 Station, has been appointed assistant professor of animal husbandry, and has 

 entered upon his duties. 



Michigan College. — The entrance requirements have been increased to a mini- 

 mum of 15 high school units, of which from 1 to 3 may be offered in agriculture. 

 Correspondence courses in agriculture and home economics have been 

 established. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A short course for boys and girls who won 

 prizes in the various county agricultural and domestic science contests was held 

 during the week of March 26, with an enrollment of 106. T. D. Urbahns. as- 

 sistant in entomology in the station, has resigned to accept a position with the 

 Bureau of Entomology of this Department in connection with its alfalfa 

 weevil investigations. 



Missouri University.^According to a note in Hcirnec. the maintenance appro- 

 priations for the ensuing biennium exceed those at present by $152,000. There 

 is also an appropriation of $60,000 for a laboratory for agricultural chemistry. 



North Dakota College. — According to data recently published in Breeder's 

 Gazette, 46§ per cent of the graduates of the agricultural course are now en- 

 gaged in experiment station work, I65 per cent are farming, 13i per cent are 

 teaching agriculture in agricultural colleges, 10 per cent are teaching agriculture 

 in high schools, 10 per cent are agricultural extension lecturers and demonstra- 

 tors, and 3i per cent are connected with farm journals. Of the graduates from 

 the farm husbandry course, nearly all are located in the State and 72 per cent 

 of their number are farming, while 20 per cent have taken the college course 

 in agriculture or veterinary science. Of the 1,582 young men who have taken 

 the shorter courses in agriculture during the past 5 years, 95 per cent are said 

 to be employed in farm work, 



Porto Rico Federal Station. — Charles N. Ageton, instructor in chemistry at the 

 Washington College, has been appointed assistant chemist and has entered upon 

 his duties. 

 . Clemson College and Station. — The work in animal husbandry and veterinary 

 science has been recently reorganizd. Dr. E, Barnett, who has been station 

 animal husbandman and veterinarian, retains the work in veterinary science 

 and becomes associate animal husbandman, while Archibald Smith, assistant in 

 animal husbandry in the division of extension work and farmers' institutes, has 

 been appointed animal husbandman in the station and professor of animal hus- 

 bandry in the college, giving special attention to the work in dairying. It is 

 planned to expend from $75,000 to $80,000 in the near future in the development 

 of the animal husbandry interests of the State. A new dairy building to cost 

 over $20,000 is being erected, and the old dairy barn which is to be utilized for 

 farm machinery is to be replaced by a modern structure costing over $15,000, 

 for which land has recently been acquired. 



The entomological divisions of the college and station have been combined by 

 the appointment of A. F. Conradi as professor of entomology in addition to his 

 present duties as station entomologist, and of W. P. Gee as assistant professor of 

 entomology in the college. Herbert Johnson Smith, instructor in chemistry at 

 the Mississippi College, has accepted the position of assistant professor of chem- 



