494 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Porto Rico Tlniversity. — The college of agriculture and mechanic arts opened 

 its new building to students September 23. The initial enrollment of the year 

 was 172, of whom 22 are in the agi'icultural courses. 



Rhode Island Station. — Director H. J. Wheeler has tendered his resignation 

 to take effect December 1. 



irtah College and Station. — The extension work has been reorganized with 

 Dr. E. G. Peterson as director and John T. Caine, III, as assistant director in 

 charge of field parties. Robert J. Evans, Ph. D. (Cornell, 1912), has been 

 appointed agronomist in the station in charge of arid farms and will also assist 

 in the extension work. Dr. J. E. Greaves, associate chemist, has taken over 

 Dr. Peterson's work in bacteriology as professor of bacteriology and bacteriol- 

 ogist, and H. E. McNatt has been appointed assistant animal husbandman in 

 the college and station to succeed Professor Caine. G. M. Turpin resigned 

 October 1 as poultryman to accept a similar position in the Iowa College. 



Vermont College. — A. K. Peiterson has been appointed instructor in botany in 

 the college of agriculture, vice John P. Helyar, whose resignation has been 

 previously noted; and R. T. Burdick, a 1912 graduate of Cornell University, 

 has been apjwinted instructor in agronomy. 



"Washington College and Station. — H. B. Humphrey has resigned as vice 

 director of the station to accept the position of head of the department of 

 botany in the college. Robert C. Ashby, superintendent of the farmers' insti- 

 tutes, has been appointed professor of animal husbandry in the college and 

 animal husbandman in the station. Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, of Washburn College, 

 has been appointed professor of plant physiology and bacteriology in the college 

 and plant physiologist in the station. 



Recent Federal Agricultural Legislation. — Aside from the agricultural appro- 

 priation act, a summary of which has already been given (E. S. R., 27, p. 301), 

 among the principal agricultural measures to be enacted at the recent session of 

 Congress was the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20. Under this law 

 nursery stock may now be imported only after a permit has been issued by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, when properly labeled, and when accompanied by a 

 certificate of inspection from the country of export (or in case no oflicial system 

 of inspection is maintained in that country upon compliance with regulations 

 prescribed by the Secretary). Notice of its arrival at a port of entry in this 

 country must also be given to the Secretary, and its subsequent movements in 

 interstate commerce or the District of Columbia reported until it has received 

 insi^ection from the proper state official. 



Similar regulations may also be promulgated as regards the importation of 

 other plants, fruits, vegetables, seeds, etc., in case their unrestricted entry be- 

 comes prejudicial. Whenever deemed necessary in order to check the intro- 

 duction of a new pest, importations may be excluded entirely from certain 

 countries or of certain kinds of plants and their products, and any State may be 

 quarantined as regards the shipment of affected products in interstate com- 

 merce. A foreign quarantine has already been put in force against the white 

 pine blister rust and potato wart, and a domestic quarantine against Hawaiian 

 products likely to carry the Mediterranean fruit fly. 



The administration of the act is entrusted to a Federal Horticultural Board of 

 this Department, consisting of C. L. Marlatt and A. F. Burgess of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, W. A. Orton and Peter Bisset of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 and G. B. Sudworth of the Forest Service. The act as a whole became effective 

 October 1, and carries an appropriation of $25,000. 



Another inspection measure, passed August 24 and effective February 24, 

 1913, prohibits the importation for seeding purposes of grain and grass seed 



