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Thomas D. Potwin of Lemon has been appointed a member of the Regentc of 

 Education, vice A. M. Anderson of Sturgis. 



11. S. Department of Agriculture.— Dr. B. T. Galloway of the Department and 

 President R. A. Pearson of the Iowa College have been appointed assistants to 

 tlie Secretary of Agriculture. Dr. Galloway's duties are primarily to act as 

 the representative of the Department in matters connected with the Council of 

 National Defense, while President Pearson will especially assist the Depart- 

 ment in keeping in touch with the state boards of food production and con- 

 servation which are being organized. 



A departmental committee, consisting of R. A. Oakley, chairman, L. M. 

 Estabrook, W, A. Wheeler, J. E. W. Tracy, Wm. Stuart, C. P. Hartley, A. J. 

 Pieters, and C. W. Warburton, has been appointed to secure information as to 

 the available supplies of seed for staple food crops, and to devise methods of 

 meeting shortages in particular regions. 



A survey by the Department of the farm-labor situation in the various States 

 is contemplated. Steps are also being taken to place a representative in each 

 State to cooperate with other agencies in organizing farm labor and assist 

 farmers in receiving an adequate supply. 



Two new divisions have been established in the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 beginning May 1. One of them is the tuberculosis eradication division, to take 

 charge of work which is to be considerably enlarged under the new appropria- 

 tion act. The other is the tick eradication division, which will deal exclusively 

 with this campaign, leaving the field inspection division free to devote itself 

 to the enforcement of the cattle transportation laws and the combating of mis- 

 cellaneous animal diseases. 



Fourth National Conference on Uural Education. — This conference was held 

 at the University of Pennsylvania, April 8 to 11, under the auspices of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Education. The attendance was about 175, representing over 20 

 States. 



The opening day's session dealt with religious agencies in rural life and rural 

 education. The remainder of the program considered a nation-wide plan for 

 the improvement of rural schools and the development of rural leadership. 



Among the resolutions adopted were those favoring means to provide more 

 adequate preparation of rural teachers, the consolidation of rural schools where 

 practicable, and the maintenance of a teachers' home and a demonstration farm 

 of five or more acres as part of the school property. The utilization of the 

 country school as an Intellectual, industrial, educational, and social center for 

 community organization, the readjustment of courses of study in elementary 

 and secondary schools to adapt them to the needs of rural life, and the provi- 

 sion of high school ediication for all country boys and girls without severing 

 home ties, were also advocated. A special recommendation for the present 

 emergency was for the mobilization of the boys of high school age in cities and 

 tawns into an industrial army as farm cadets, to be employed by farmers 

 during their busy season under state and national supervision and to receive 

 school credits as well as pay for their labors. 



Agricultural Education and Research in Great Britain. — A movement is on 

 foot to raise a fund of $750,000 for the erection of new science buildings at the 

 University College of North Wales " as a memorial to the men of North Wales 

 who have fallen in the war." A gift of $100,000 has already been secured. It 

 is announced that special prominence is to be given in the new buildings to 

 agriculture and forestry. 



The Southeastern Agricultural College at Wye, England, has organized a re- 

 search and advisory department distinct from the teaching side of the college 

 and governed by a separate representative committee, composed in part of re- 



