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The school of agriculture has made exhibits showing the worli of the station 

 at sixteen county fairs. The exhibit is prepared in duplicate sets and has 

 been the means of connecting the college with a large number of farmers who 

 have become deeply interested in its worli. 



Miss Pearl MacDonald, of Wisconsin, has been added to the staff of the 

 agricultural extension department in chai'ge of home economics. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — The entering class numbered 103, an 

 increase of 30 per cent over the previous year and making the total enrollment 

 202. Much difHculty has been experienced in providing accommodations for 

 this number of students. 



President Edwards received the honorary degree of doctor of laws from 

 Brown University at its recent celebration of its one-hundred fiftieth anniver- 

 saiy. 



The department of extension work is being reorganized with the following 

 personnel : Director of the extension service, A. E. Stene ; junior extension work 

 in boys' and girls' clubs and school gardens, Ernest K. Thomas; instructor in 

 farm management and agricultural organization, David Elder : instructor in 

 home economics, Miss Jennie E. Koehler ; and demonstrator in agronomy, Myron 

 A. Hawkins. 



In the station. Robert A. Lichtenthaeler, assistant chemist, has resigned to 

 pursue graduate study at Yale University, and Miss Marguerite W. Elkins, M. S., 

 has been appointed assistant in animal breeding and pathologj'. 



First Farmer's Club House in Indiana. — A farmer's club house of impressive 

 design has been erected at Seymour as a memorial to Capt. Meedy W. Shields, 

 a founder of the town and a donor of a fund utilized for the erection of the 

 building. The club house was dedicated October 9, the principal addresses being 

 made by Secretary Houston of this Department and Prof. G. I. Christie, of 

 Purdue University. Secretary Houston discussed the workings of the Smith- 

 Lever Extension Act, and drew special attention to the studies of this Depart- 

 ment of marketing problems and in highway improvement. 



Necrology. — Dr. D. E. Salmon, organizer of the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 of this Department and its chief for over twenty years, died at Butte, Mont., 

 August 30, Dr. Salmon was bom at Mount Olive, Morris County, N. J., July 

 23, 1850, and entered Cornell University at its opening in 1868, gradually taking 

 up veterinary studies. After six months spent at the Alfort Veterinary School 

 in Paris, he was graduated from Cornell in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor 

 of Veterinary Science, and four years later received that of Doctor of Veteri- 

 nary Medicine. 



After several years' veterinary practice. Dr. Salmon began his service with 

 this Department in 1878 under a temporary appointment for the study of 

 diseases of swine. Later he was appointed an inspector in New York in con- 

 nection with contagious pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, and worked in the Southern 

 States on Texas fever and other animal diseases. Early in 1883 he was called 

 to Washington by Commissioner Loring to organize a veterinary division in the 

 Department, which within a year was replaced by the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try, established under an act of Congress, and served as its head until 1905. 

 Among the specific achievements of the Bureau during this period were the 

 eradication of contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle in 1892, the establishment 

 of animal quarantine stations at the principal American ports and the promul- 

 gation of regulations for the safe shipment and humane treatment of cattle 

 exported from the United States, the development of the export and domestic 

 meat inspection service, and the suppression of foot-and-mouth disease. Im- 



