800 EXPEEIMENT STATION KECOKD. 



degree in 1871 and that of doctor of science in 1904. His long career was spent 

 entirely at tlie college, beginning in 1871 with his apix)intment as professor of 

 natural history. Ten years later his title was changed to that of professor of 

 botany and horticulture, and in 1907 to that of professor of botany and botanist. 

 I'or many years he was botanist to the State Board of Agriculture, and in 1888 

 a member of the State Forestry Commission, doing much to promote interest in 

 forestry. Among his investigations may be mentioned those on the effect of 

 smoke and gas on vegetation. 



Clemson College and Station. — Beginning with the next session the college is 

 to give an intensive one-year agricultural course to students over 18 years of 

 age who are familiar with the practical side of farming. Scholarships of 

 $100 each and free tuition are to be given to one student from each county and 

 to 7 from the State at large. 



Recent appointments include F. T. Wilson as assistant professor of agronomy 

 and assistant agronomist, M. P. Somes as assistant professor of entomology and 

 zoology and assistant entomologist, O. M. Clark as assistant professor of horti- 

 culture, C. F. Niven as assistant in horticulture, T. R. Haden as assistant in 

 animal husbandry, and F. H. Jeter as assistant to the director. 



Wisconsin TJniversity and Station. — Sixteen farmers' meetings have been held 

 this fall on county asylum and other public farms throughout the State, to 

 demonstrate the crops grown on these farms by their superintendents in coopera- 

 tion with, and under the supervision of, the college of agriculture. At 7 of 

 these plowing contests for prizes were held, and at 4 domestic science lectures 

 and demonstrations were given in the kitchens. 



The soils department has held 6 demonstration meetings showing the effects 

 of different treatment of the soils in several parts o-f the State. Most of these 

 were held on the sandy soils where much benefit has been gained by turning 

 under alfalfa and other legumes for green manure. 



The dairy cattle breeders of the State have formed 59 community breeders' 

 associations for the purpose of improving the breeding of their cattle and 

 cooperation in buying of feed and marketing of stock, etc. 



Frank B. Moody, a graduate of the forestry school of the University of Michi- 

 gan, has been appointed assistant professor of forestry, and is to oi'ganize a school 

 for forest rangers and give courses on woodlot management in the university. 



Miscellaneous. — According to a note in Rural Ncio Yorker, the General Edu- 

 cation Board announced October 25 that it was about to begin free agricultural 

 demonstrations for farmers iu the North, Allotments of $1,500 were made for 

 St. Lawrence County, N. Y., under the direction of the State School of Agri- 

 culture at Canton, and of $8,000 for four counties in Maine, under the direction 

 of the University of Maine. 



Lai Kuei Liang, a 1908 graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 has been appointed vice minister of agriculture and forestry in the Chinese 

 Republic, and has begun the issue of the Chinese Agricultural Journal. 



E. L. Hsieh, a 1909 graduate of the same college, is chief of the bureau of 

 interpretation of the same department, and is engag:ed in ti'anslating into 

 Chinese the agricultural literature of other countries. H. Jen, also a 1909 grad- 

 uate, is director of the agricultural experiment station at Mukden, Manchuria. 



C. S. Orwin, editor of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, has been 

 appointed director of the Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics, 

 recently established at Oxford University in cooiJeratiou with the Development 

 Commission. 



Prof. Etienne Foex has been nominated assistant director of the Plant Patho- 

 logical Station at Paris, France. 



