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Texas Station. — At the last meeting of the I)oard of control the president of 

 the college, H. H. Harrington, was made director of the station, with J. W. 

 Carson assistant to the director and in charge of the feed control work. W. C. 

 Welborn was elected vice director and agriculturist. J. C. Burns, formerly 

 assistant in animal husbandry in the college and station, was made acting pro- 

 fessor and placed in control of the station work in animal husbandry, vice 



F. R. Marshall, who. as noted elsewhere, has gone to Ohio State University. 

 Utah College and Station. — Dr. A. S. Condon, of Ogden, and J. W. N. White- 

 cotton, of Provo. have been appointed to the board of trustees, of which L. N. 

 Stohl has been elected president. A college course in veterinary science is to 

 be offered for the first time. The work in agriculture has been increased and 

 the course divided, degrees now being offered in agronomy and arid farming, 

 horticulture and entomology, irrigation and drainage, and animal industry and 

 dairying. A cooperative arrangement has been entered into with the Univer- 

 sity of Utah whereby a course in irrigation engineering will be offered jointly by 

 the two institutions. The practical and agricultural work will be given by the 

 college and the technical engineering subjects by the university. A normal 

 course in agriculture and domestic science is to be established in a similar 

 manner. 



In the station, Robert Stewart has been advanced from assistant chemist to 

 chemist. J. C. Hogenson has been appointed agronoiuist and E. G. Titus, of the 

 Bureau of Entomology of this Department, associate entomologist. James Dry- 

 den, poultryman, has resigned to accept a position with the Oregon Station, and 



G. M. Turpin, who has been associated with him, will continue the experiments 

 as assistant poultryman. C. Larsen, dairyman, has accepted a position with the 

 South Dakota College. 



Virginia College and Station. — A. P. Spencer, a graduate of the college and 

 formerly connected with the station, has been appointed assistant in animal 

 husbaJidry. T. L. Watson has resigned as consulting geologist. 



Washington Station. — According to a note in Xorthwesteni Horticulturist, 

 R. S. Northrop, of the Utah College and Station, has been appointed superin- 

 tendent of the Puyallup substation. This substation has been closed since 1903, 

 but, as previously noted, was reestablished by the last legislature. 



Wyoming University and Station. — L. B. McWethy, instructor in agronomy 

 at the Michigan College, has been appointed agronomist in the station and will 

 also teach agronomy in the university. T. F. McConnell has been appointed 

 experimenter in live stock and instructor in animal husbandry in the university. 



National Irrigation Congress. — The fifteenth annual session of the National 

 Irrigation Congress was held in Sacramento, Cal., September 2-7, with over 

 4,000 delegates and visitors in attendance. Vice-President Fairbanks, Senators 

 Perkins, of California, and Newlands, of Nevada, the governors of six States, 

 representatives from China, Germany, and Mexico, E. H. Harriman, and Luther 

 Burbank were among the speakers. The general topic for discussion was the 

 conservation of the national resources. Most of the Federal bureaus engaged 

 in such work were represented and presented outlines of their respective duties. 



An address by Gift'ord Pinchot. of the Forest Service of this Department, dealt 

 especially with the timber supi)ly, and gave estimates showing the probable 

 exhaustion of the present stumpage in thirty-three years. The conservation of 

 soils was discussed by W J McGee, of the Bureau of Soils, that of the mineral 

 resources by J. A. Holmes, of the Geological Svirvey, and that of the water 

 resources by M. O. Leighton, of the Geological Survey. 



F. H. Newell, Director of the Reclamation Service, summarized the work of 

 that service, stating that the expenditures to date had been $03,000,000. The 

 amount available for the next year would be about $7,000,000, which would 



