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Washington Station. — W. H. Lawrence, assistant botanist, has been appointed 

 superintendent of the I'uyallnp Substation, and J. S. Friedley assistant superin- 

 tendent. 



West Virginia University. — C. P. Hartley, assistant bacteriologist, has re- 

 signed to accept a position with the department of botany of the University of 

 Minnesota. 



Wyoming Station. — In cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 this Department, a somewhat extensive experiment in sheep l>reeding is in 

 progress with a flociv of 247 high grade and pure bred Rambouillet breeding ewes, 

 and 6 pure bred Raniliouillet rams. The experiment is to be conducted s^o far 

 as po.ssible under actual range conditions, the sheep being kept on the range dur- 

 ing the entire year. 



Office of Experiment Stations — R. D. Milner, previously connected with the 

 nutrition investigations of the Office, has been assigned to the departments of 

 agricultural chemistry, dairying, dairy farming, and agrotechny in Experiment 

 Hialion Record formerly covered by Dr. II. W. T>awson. 



Poultry Investigations of the Bureau of Animal Industry. — The Bureau has 

 completed the equipment of the poultry plant at its experimental station at 

 Bethesda, Md., and the investigations are under way. The plant has a cajiacity 

 of 32-r> laying hens, with sufficient range for the rearing of young stocli. Records 

 are being kept of the egg production by means of trap nests. The work also 

 includes a comparison of dry and moist mash and the hopper methods of feed- 

 ing, a comparison of the growth of cai)ons and cockerels, and as to the iK)Ssibil- 

 ity of replacing linseed meal in the ration by a small amount of cotton-seed 

 meal. 



M. M. Hastings, a graduate of the Kansas College, has been appointed an 

 assistant in the poultry investigations and will make a study of problems relat- 

 ing to methods of production, transportation, and marl^jtiug of eggs and 

 poultry. 



Graduate School of Agriculture. — A preliminai-y announcement has been issued 

 for the (iraduate School of Agriculture to be held July O-.'il, at Cornell Uni- 

 versity and the New York State Station. Courses will be offered in biochem- 

 istry, agronomy, horticulture, dairy husbandry and dairying, poultry farming, 

 veterinary medicine, and entomology, with numerous conferences on various 

 phases of agricultural work, and excursions to typical horticultui'al and dairy 

 farms. 



Agriculture and the National Education Association. — It is announced that at 

 the meeting of the department of superintendence of the National Education 

 Association in Washington, D. C, February 25-27, considerable attention is to 

 be given to agricultural education. A round-table conference will be held at 

 which the topics will include cooperation between the State agricultural college 

 and the State normal school in training teachers for elementary agriculture, 

 and cooperation by the United States Department of Agriculture and State 

 school authorities in promoting agriculture in the public schools. 



It is also planned to organize at this meeting a department of rural and 

 agricultural education in the association coordinate with the existing depart- 

 ments. This action was authorized by the board of directors of the association 

 at the .July meeting in Los Angeles. 



International Live Stock Exposition. — The eighth exposition of the Interna- 

 tional Live Stock Association, held in Chicago November 30 to December 7, 

 continued the successes of previous years. In spite of the financial stringency 

 and extremely disagreeable weather during the opening days the attendance 

 was remarkably good, especially from the city and near-by points. This may 

 be attributed in part to the attitude of the daily press of Chicago, which ac- 



