Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-24
u. OF NJ. INSTRUCTOR
TO REPRESENT STATE
DR.. De Vault Named to American
Farm Economic As
ISOLATION.
AUCHTER HEADS FACULTY
Glee Club Gives First Home Con-
cert of Season.
from a Staff Correspondent.

! from a STAFF Correspondent.
| COLLEGE PARK, Md, February %.
| DIR. S. II. We Vault, assistant spe-
/ cialist in marketing of the extension
/ service Of the University of Mary
| land, has been appointed state rep
i resentative of the American Farm
| Economic Association. The associa-
ton was founded in 1910, and holds
annual sessions at which papers are
presented and discussions had of the
economic problems Of agricultural
| life.
A quarterly journal. containing ar
ticles on current economic questions
as they relate to the sfarming indus
try and the reports of the progress
in the field Of agriculture. is pub
lished by the association.
+. c. Auchter, specialist in agri-
culture, has been elected president
OF the Faculty Club at the untHer-
| sity. r V. Truitt is the new secre-
tary- treasurer. Mrs. De Voc Mead
was chosen the woman member of
the executive committee. The club
held it's first social affair of the
l923-24 term last Monday night. when
a highly Interesting program of vocal
and instrumental music and readings
was given.
The Cilee Club of the university
gave its first home concert of the
season Tuesday night before large
crowd in the auditorium. The entire
program was well received. particu-
larry the singing of Frederick South
wick. baritone, of New York, who
was soioist OF the occasion.
The bulletin on More Tomatoes
From Fewer Acres" which was pub
lisheG by the extension service last
year. is being reprinted and will be
ready for distribution early next
month. The bulletin contains an ac-
count Of thirty-ftve plant beds in
operation last season and directions
for growing tomato plants. The bull
letin was written by W. X. Ballard,
specialist in vegetable gardening for
the extension service. and A. ID. Rade
baugh. county agent for Cecil county.
Game creatures and other denizeus
Of the university preserve and bird
refuge are more abundant than ever
before at this time of year, according
to the reports of the biologists who
are sponsoring the movement. Quail
is especially plentiful. there being
many coVeyS scattered over the 1000
acres. Recently approximately leo
rabbits. received through State Game
Warden lie Compile. arrived from
Kansas and Missouri and were plant
Cd In the general vicinity of the
university. The class in field zoology
is distributing the imported game.
An allotment of Hungarian quail
from the valley of the Danube will
arrive shortly, and after being brand
ed. will be liberated at favorable
points. These birds are somewhat
larger than the native species dob
White) and are very hardy. AS the
effort to Introduce Hungarian quail
is experimental. the results will be
watched with great interest.
y discussion ~
system was the main feature Of a
recent session Of the Poe Literary
Society. The organization found that
only comparative few considered
the system failure, and that It was
the consensus of opinion that, being
"in its infancy" 1t had not had a
fair and decisive trial.
J. y. MackaN of the class of 1905
OF the university, head of the state
i roads commission, has unique dis
tinctton. He is both chairman and
chief engineer. the only instance in
the country where these two respon-
sible positions are held by the same
Individual Mackall has been with
the state roads commission ever since
leaving the university. Associate
with him Is H. d. Williar, jr., Of the
class of 1907, who is assistant chief
engineer.
Provost Hubbard. chemist of the
Asphalt Association and formerly
with the United States bureau Of
public roads. addressed the senior
class In civil engineering on Asphalt
as Used in Road Construction"