1000 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



year. In its stead it is planned to maintain an institntion for advanced instruc- 

 tion and reseai-cli in agricultural problems. Tlie reorganization in faculty con- 

 sequent upon this change is not yet comi)lete, but as announced includes the 

 following appointments : W. M. Wheeler, i)rofessor of economic entomology ; 

 W. E. Castle, professor of animal hei'edity ; E. C. Jeffery, professor of experi- 

 mental plant morphology, and Dr. Theobold Smith, professor of comparative 

 pathology. 



Agricultural Measures Passed by Congress. — The chief agricultural legislation 

 enacted liy Congress at its recent sessidu was embodied in the agricultural ap- 

 propriation act, which is summarized elsewhere in this issue. Provision was 

 made for the publishing of 100,000 copies of a revision of the special report on 

 the diseases of cattle, and an increase of 7,GS2 acres in the allotment of public 

 land to the State of Kansas under the Morrill Act of 1SG2 was authorized on 

 the ground that of the land originally selected by the State at the rate of ,$2.50 

 per acre this amount should have been listed at $1.25, thereby entitling the State 

 to a corresponding increase in quota. 



A bill introduced by Senator Dick, of Ohio, to apply a itortion of the proceeds 

 of the sales of public lands to the establishment and maintenance of schools of 

 mines and mining in connection with tlie colleges of agriculture and mechanic 

 arts was passed by the Senate ^Nlay 15 without amendment and referred in the 

 House to the Committee on Mines and Mining. 



A bill introduced by Representative Mann, of Illinois, to regulate commerce 

 in adulterated and misbranded seeds was reported from the House Committee 

 on Agriculture and is pending on the House Calendar. The other agricultural 

 bills introduced, including the various measures for the support of branch ex- 

 periment stations, agricultural high schools, and agricultural instruction in 

 normal schools, were not reported from the committees to which they were 

 referred. 



National Conservation Commission. — A commission on the conservation of the 

 national resources has been appointed by President Roosevelt, its work to be 

 divided into sections of waters, forests, lands, and minerals. In addition to 

 Senators and Representatives, the personnel of this commission is as follows : 

 Gifford Pinchot, chairman ; W J McGee, F. H. Newell, Geo. F. Swain, Henry 

 S. Graves, Overton W. Price, Chas. McDonald, Chas. R. Van Hise, John Hays 

 Hammond, Irving Fisher, and J. A. Holmes. 



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