266 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



Citrus Canker. — The Louisiana State University has just issued a 

 circular — Circular No. 15 — on citrus canker. No doubt California 

 Citrus Growers desiring information on this destructive disease may 

 be able to procure copies of this circular by writing to the Experiment 

 Station at Baton Rouge. — E. J. V. 



The National Agricultural Society. — Some of the best known men 

 in the country met April 27th at the Hotel Biltmore, New York City, 

 bringing to a head an important movement for the improvement of 

 agricultural conditions throughout the country by completing the 

 organization of The National Agricultural Society. 



James Wilson of Iowa, formerly Secretary of Agriculture in the 

 Cabinets of Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, was made presi- 

 dent, and Theodore N. Vail of New York, was elected vice president. 

 Mr. Vail is largely interested in agriculture, having founded an agri- 

 cultural school for boys on his farm in Vermont, w-hich he recently 

 turned over to the state. He has always been interested in agricul- 

 tural problems and particularly in the education and development of 

 the farm boy. 



G. lioward Davison was elected chairman of the Executive Commit- 

 tee. Mr. Davison was one of the founders of the International Live- 

 stock Exposition, and is a member of many agricultural and livestock 

 associations. He was until recently president of the American Dairy 

 Shorthorn Cattle Club, and for years was a director of the New York 

 State Fair. He was appointed to the Board of Control of the Geneva 

 Experiment Station on which he served for a number of years. 



The directors elected, in addition to Messrs. Wilson, Vail and 

 Davison, are : T. Coleman du Pont of Delaware, John A. Spoor of 

 Chicago, R. V. Lindabury of New Jersey, William H. Moore of New 

 York, Governor Henry C. Stuart of Virginia, Senator James W. Wads- 

 worth of New York, Robert A. Pairbairn of New Jersey, Samuel Tnsull 

 of Chicago, Charles A. Otis of Cleveland, N. H. Gentry of Missouri, 

 Peter Jansen of Nebraska, Fairfax Harrison of Virginia, Walter A. 

 Johnson of New York and P. C. Long of New York. 



Mr. Johnson was also elected treasurer and Mr. Long secretary. 



Among others who have been instrumental in organizing the Society 

 were the late James J. Hill of St. Paul, W. K. Vanderbilt of New 

 York, J. H. Wade of Cleveland, Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois, Mortimer 

 L. Schiff of New York, William du Pont of Virginia, Ex-senator C. W. 

 Watson of Maryland, V. Everit Macy and W. Averill Harriman of 

 New York. 



The following committees were also elected : Executive Committee, 

 Messrs. G. Howard Davison, chairman. Vail, Spoor, Lindabury, Fair- 

 bairn and Wilson ; Finance Committee, Messrs. Harrison, Insull and 

 du Pont; Auditing Committee, Messrs. Moore, Otis and Wadsworth; 

 Nominating Committee, Messrs. Spoor, Stuart, Jansen, Gentry and 

 Davison ; Publication Committee, Messrs. Moore, Vail and Fairbairn. 



The society will have in' addition to these officers a strong advisory 

 board composed of the deans of some of the leading agricultural col- 

 leges, heads of the. agricultural experiment stations, department of 

 agriculture men, leading editors of agricultural papers and others. 



