798 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



Tennessee Station. — A special train lias ])een sent out tlirougLi east Tennessee, 

 tlironsli tli(> cooponition of the eolleye and station, the state department of 

 agricnltnre, the state boai'd of bealtli, and the Southern Railway Co. It 

 contained four demonstration cars for live stock, agricultural and horticul- 

 tural pi'oducts, and exhibits relating to health and educational subjects. About 

 20 exiKM-ts accomitaniod the train, and sto])s of one day each were made at about 

 'SO different county seats. 



Utah Station. — L. M. Wiiisor has been apjiointed assistant irrigation engineer. 



West Virginia University. — A department of agricultural education has been 

 establishe<l in the college of agriculture, with A. W. Nolan as associate pro- 

 fessor of agricultural education at its head. It is planned, among other things, 

 to publish (1) a monthly bulletin on school agriculture, (2) bulletins on nature 

 study for teachers of grades below the seventh, and (3) to coojierate with the 

 county superintendents .-ind teachers in promoting boys' and girls' corn-growing 

 contests. 



C. R. Titlow, assistant in agricultural extension work at the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, has been aitpointed director of agricultural extension, to take effect 

 .January 1, 1912. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The facilities of the poultry department 

 have been increased b.v the construction of a fattening shed, 16 by .32 feet, which 

 will be used in part for pen feeding and in part for crate fattening. For the 

 present, work conducted in this building will be instructional in character, but 

 it is hoped at a later date to take up experimental work. The department is also 

 constructing 15 colony houses, which will be used for research work ;ilong the 

 lines of breeding and nutrition. 



Canadian Experimental Farms. — An additional farm has been established at 

 Scott, Saskatchewan, in charge of R. E. Everest, and others at Kentville, Nova 

 Scotia, and Wilmer, British Columbia. P. H. Moore has succeeded Thomas 

 Sharp as superintendent of the farm at Agassiz, British Columbia, and W. C. 

 McKillican has succeeded James Murray at Brandon, Manitoba. AY. W. Thom- 

 son has been appointed assistant at Indian Head. Manitoba. 



Porto E,ico Board of Agriculture. — The Porto Rico Board of Agriculture was 

 organized June 16 with headquarters at San Juan. Its contemplated duties are 

 the inspection and quarantine of imports with a view to the exclusion of noxious 

 pests, the introduction of beneficial birds, parasites, etc., the enforcement of 

 protection for birds, and control regulations as to plant and animal pests, scien- 

 tific work relating to these lines, and educational w^ork, as by compiling and 

 publishing data, preparing school exhilnts, etc. 



The construction of three fumigation houses has been authorized and W. Y. 

 Tower, of the Porto Rico Fe<leral Station, appointed entomologist of the board 

 to enforce the quarantine against importations, as previously noted. C. E. Hood, 

 of the Bureau of Entomology of this Department, has been appointed to under- 

 take the introduction into Porto Rico of natural enemies of the white grub. 

 Arrangements are also being made for a survey of the birds and forestry 

 resources of the island and of the measures advisable for their development and 

 for the collection of agricultural fJtatistics. 



Agronomic-geological work in Germany. — At a recent meeting of the German 

 Agricultural Council two addresses were delivered bearing on the present status 

 of the geological-agronomic.'il investigations in Germany and their application 

 to agriculture. The sentiment of the meeting is summed up in the following 

 recommendations, which were indorsed at the meeting. 



(1) Soil studies, and other investigations the results of which may be influ- 

 enced by the nature of the soil, should give attention to the soil profile and the 

 underground geology. 



