109G EXPEKIMKNT STATION KECOHD. 



Maine University. — H('i';nise of tin* j.;ro;it tli'iiiMiid I'or ti'acliors i-ompeteiit to 

 teach afirirulture in socoiidary sc-liools, tlu' i-olle^f of afjriculture will offtT a 

 one-year course in a^'rlculturo for teachers, to bejxin September 15. The course 

 is open to college graduates, to high-school teachers with at least two years' 

 experience, and to normal-school graduates who have had three years' experi- 

 ence in teaching. 



Michigan College and Station. — At a recent meeting of the governing hoard 

 Dr. W. J. r.eal was appoiiilcd station botanist, this including membership in 

 the station council. Dr. J. l\. Dandeno was appointed assistant botanist and 

 a member of the advisory staff. 



In connection with the extension work of the college and station an exi)eri- 

 mental union has been organized. In the spring of 1908, 32 farmers undertook 

 cooperative experiments In alfalfa growing, and during March and April of 

 the present year 03 farmers, 67 of whom had attended the short courses, under- 

 took cooperative work with grains. About G2 bushels of improved seed have 

 been furnished by the college and distributed in 40 counties. I'nder the 

 arrangement agreed upon, the cooperator pays the freight or express chai-ges 

 and reports results to the college. 



Minnesota University and Station. — According to the MinneiipoUs Morning 

 Trihunc of May 8, the board of regents has established in the college of agri- 

 culture a two-year course in industrial and agricultural education for the prepa- 

 ration of teachers in the agricultural high schools provided for by the recent 

 legislature, A summer school for teachers is being held for three weeks, be- 

 ginning June 21. 



A short course in traction engineering has been offered for the four weeks 

 beginning May 25. The course of study included steam boilers, traction and 

 stationary steam engines, gasoline, kerosene, and denatured alcohol engines, and 

 their operation, repair, etc. 



Minnesota Farm Review notes the appropriation by the legislature of $2,000 

 for tobacco experiments. 



Missouri University. — The enrollment in the university courses in animal 

 husbandry is now 450, an increase of SO per cent in the last three years. A 

 considerable portion of the increase is in the elective courses. In addition, the 

 short course enrollment in animal husbandry courses for the year was 160, as 

 compared with 50 in 1007. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Dr. S. Avery, acting chancellor since De- 

 cember, I'.tUS. has been appointed chancellor of the university. Dr. C. E. Bessey, 

 who was dean of the industrial college, which has recently been divided into 

 separate colleges of agriculture and engineering, has been appointed head dean 

 in the university, thereby becoming chairman of the board of deans and acting 

 chancellor in the absence or indisposition of the chancellor. E. A. Burnett and 

 C. R. Richards, formerly associate deans in the industrial college, have been 

 made deans of the colleges of agriculture and engineering, respectively. 



The new college of agriculture is to include the university work in general 

 and technical agriculture, forestry, and domestic science. The departments of 

 soils and farming crops have been reorganized into a department of instructional 

 agronomy and farm management and a department of experimental agronomy. 

 These are to be in charge, respectively, of C. W. Tugsley and E. G. Montgomery. 

 The former will also act as soil agronomist in the station. T. A. Kiesselbach 

 has been transferred from instruction work to become assistant in experimental 

 agronomy. P. R. Barker has been appointed atljuuct professor of agronomy 

 and assistant in agronomy (soils) in the station. 



