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horticulturist of the station, and I. S. CooIj, jr„ professor of agronomy, has been 

 appointed agronomist. L. H. Sutton and E. C. Auchter. seniors respectively in 

 the colleges of agriculture of the Wisconsin and Cornell universities, have been 

 appointed instructors in horticulture in the college and assistants in horticulture 

 in the station. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — A lectureship on country life problems 

 was recently added to the department of agricultural economics, to which C. J. 

 Galpin has been appointed to study rural conditions in Wisconsin, especially 

 with reference to social, religious, business, and educational organizations. The 

 object is to discover the needs of rural communities, with a view to starting 

 movements in various localities to remedy unfavorable conditions. 



The state legislature provided $1,000 a year for five years for the establish- 

 ment of demonstration farms in counties which appropriate $500 annually and 

 lease a suitable tract of land free to the regents of the university. These farms 

 will be under the general control of the director of the station. Three such 

 farms will be started this year. In addition to carrying on experiments of 

 special interest to the locality, demonstration meetings will be held at suitable 

 times, especially during the growing season. Where advisable, seeds and plants 

 grown on the farms will be disseminated among the farmers. 



Representatives of the college of agriculture will soon be stationed in sev- 

 eral of the counties of the State, especially those which have training schools 

 for preparation of teachers, to aid in the general agricultural development of the 

 county. In addition to giving agricultural instruction in these schools, the rep- 

 resentatives will aid in developing the extension courses of the college of agri- 

 culture and will carry on demonstrations on land provided for that purpose by 

 the county. Besides this, it will be a duty to study conditions throughout the 

 county which need improvement, thus standing as a middleman between the 

 college and the farmers. 



Members of the veterinary department have recently held a number of public 

 demonstrations in different parts of the State to show the value of hog cholera 

 antiserum as a preventive and protective agent. Both the single or serum-alone 

 metlioil. and the double or serum-simultaneous method, were used. The experi- 

 ments were very instructive and demonstrated in a practical manner the efficacy 

 of the serum. 



A $1,000 industrial fellowship has been established in the college of agri- 

 culture for the study of pea diseases. R. E. Vaughn (University of Vermont, 

 1907) has been appointed to the fellowship for the present academic year. 



D. O. Mahoney, of Viroqua. and Orlando E. Clark, of Appleton. have been 

 appointed to the board of regents, vice W. D. Hoard and E. A. Edmonds, resigned. 



Affiliation of Agricultural Societies. — At the meeting of agricultural societies 

 at Columbus, Ohio, in November, favorable action on the proposal for affiliation, 

 which has been under consideration for the past year, was taken by the Society 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, the American Society of Agronomy, 

 the American Society of Animal Nuti'ition, the Association of Official Dairy 

 Instructors, and the American Farm Management Association. These societies 

 adoptetl the proposed constitution, and designated representatives to act on the 

 council of the affiliation. 



Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. — The thirty-second annual 

 meeting of the society was held at Columbus, Ohio, November 13 and 14. The 

 address of the retiring president. Prof. S. M. Tracy, was delivered at a joint 

 session of the society with the American Society of Agronomy. Its subject was 

 Governmental Promotion of Agricultural Science, and it dealt with what the 

 Government, both national and state, is doing to assist institutions and indi- 

 viduals in experiment and investigation for the benefit of agriculture. Professor 



