200 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The first Farmers' Congress was held at the college July 13-15. In connection 

 with this congress meetings were held of the Texas State Horticultural Society, the 

 State Swine Breeders' Association, and the State Dairymen's Association. The 

 congress was well attended and successful in every way. 



Wyoming University and Station. — E. E. Smiley has been elected president of 

 the university and director of the station, vice F. P. Graves, who has resigned, to 

 accept the presidency of the University of Washington. 



Station for Plant Protection at Hamburg, Germany. — A station for plant 

 protection has been established at Freihafen, near Hamburg. Dr. C. Brick, of the 

 Botanical Museum of Hamburg, has been appointed director of the station and Dr. 

 L. Reh, zoologist. The establishment of the station grew out of the discussion of 

 the danger of the introduction of the San Jose scale by means of American fruits. 

 It will also be the duty of the station to control the importation of live plants from 

 foreign countries, investigate means of repression in the case of outbreaks of plant 

 diseases, and exercise control over the great nurseries, vineyards, and fruit orchards 

 in the region. 



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