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South Carolina College and Station. — II. W. Simpson, who has been president 

 of the board of trustees since the establishment of the college, has resigned and 

 is succeeded by lion. Alan .lohnstone. Other changes in personnel include the 

 appointment of A. F. Conradi, of the Texas Station, as entomologist and 

 zoologist in succession to C. E. Chambliss. whose resignation has been previously 

 noted : M. U. Lowers, as veterinari.in. in succession to L. A. Klein ; and C. V. W. 

 Cornell, as assistant chemist, in succession to W. E. Dickinson. II. D. House 

 has resigned to talce up worlc at the New York botanical garden. 



Vermont Station. — Some investigations in the nutrition of young animals have 

 recently been inidertaken. A small building has been erected for the work. 



Virginia College. — W. J. Quick has been elected dean of the college of agricul- 

 ture and professor of agriculture. 



Massachusetts Conference on Rural Progress. — In connection with the celebra- 

 tion of the fortieth anniversai-y of the opening of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College to students, a four-day conference on rural progress was held 

 October 2-5, 1907. Such interests as the State Board of Agriculture, the State 

 Grange, the Massachusetts Civic League, the State executive connnittee of the 

 Young Men's Christian Association, the Connecticut Valley Congregational 

 Club, and the Western Massachusetts Library Association lent tlieir active 

 cooperation. The scope of the conference and the arrangement of topics are 

 indicated in the partial summary which follows. The conference is also noted 

 editorially In this issue. 



The conferelice opened with an anniversary program, papers of a reminiscent 

 and historical nature being delivered by Hon. M. F. Dickinson and W. H. 

 Bowker, of the board of trustees. Director Brooks sunnnarized the twenty-five 

 years of experimental work at the college and outlined the function and aims 

 of the station. At the afternoon session, C. L. Beach, of the Vermont Univer- 

 sity and Station, gave an address on Dairying, and N. .J. Bachelder, master of 

 the National Grange, spoke on The Grange and Rural Progress. The dedication 

 of Clark Hall, the substantial botanical building in process of construction, fol- 

 lowed, with addresses l)y Profs. D. P. Penhallow, of McGill University, and 

 J. M. Tyler, of Andierst College, on the life and work of former President 

 Clark, for whom the building was named. In tlie evening Dr. A. C. True, of 

 this Office, spoke on The Broad Outlook of the Experiment Stations, and Presi- 

 dent Carroll D. Wright, of Clark College, on The Value of Art and Skill in 

 Industry. 



On the second day. State Forester Pane discussed The Forestry Situation in 

 Massachusetts and Prof. John Craig, of Cornell University, Cooperation in 

 Marketing Farm Products. The remainder of the day was devoted to a dis- 

 cussion of civic improvement, with addresses in the evening by J. R. Boardman, 

 of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, on 

 The Country Boy in Service, and by Henry Turner Bailey, of Worcester, on An 

 Interpretation of the Civic Improvement Campaign in America. 



The third day of the conference dealt especially with the rural library, church, 

 and school, with an illustrated lecture by O. J. Kern, superintendent of schools 

 of Winnebago County, Illinois, on The Front Line of Country School Improve- 

 ment. Dr. G. E. Stone, of the college, discussed The Care (!f Shade Trees, and 

 Prof. J. E. Rice, of Cornell University, Some Poultry Questions. 



Saturday, the final day, was devoted largely to the interests of schools. The 

 speakers included IMr. Kern on The New Agriculture in the Country School ; Dr. 

 K. C. Davis, of the St. Lawrence University School of Agriculture, on What 

 Agricultural High Schools are Doing; Charles H. Morse, of the Massachusetts 

 Commission on Industrial Education, on The Problem of Industrial Education ; 

 and George H. Martin, secretary of the State Board of Education, on Some 

 English Experiments in Agricultural Education. 



