1!,1! 'l NOTES. 



instructor Id dairy husbandry extension beginning March 10, ant 

 Instructor In planl pathology, bi hi. 



South Dakota College and Station.— Tin- legislature bas spp 1 fundi 



for the purchase of 240 acres of additional land for the Inei 

 of this land will he used for experiments in breeding and feedlni 



The live-stock pavilion is nearly <• pleted. it Is a Ore-pn 



tun- with seating capacity for r>"ii students, the classrooms i<- 

 as to Ik- readily thrown together around th< ng ring an I 



amphitheater. 



Reginald Sherwood, sn^ir beet expert, bas returned from mllltar) ■ 



Tennessee Station.— F. J. Gray <>f tin- Mississippi College bas !■■• ii appoL 

 assistant chemist W. a. Holding, assistant chemist, >,. 



Utah Station. — The station has received a f20,000 appropriation trees 

 legislature tor Btudies on underground water development Inv< pre 



vlously conducted hy the station ami the D. S. Department of Agriculture I 

 shown that vast anas of arid land in the southwestern part of ft 

 tain sufficient underground water for Irrigation, ami tin- experimental work 

 to he undertaken under this special appropriation will be to determine tli>- 



ty] f will and equipment for various sections <.f the Stat.-. < fee well !>- 



being driven in Iron County and otiiers will soon he started in different 

 dons of the State. 



Wyoming Station. — Dr. Cecil Elder has been appointed research 

 in pathology. 



International Association of Poultry Instructors and Investigators. — A 

 uniting of this organization was held in London. Man h 11 to 15, with 

 gates from Holland. Cyprus, the Transvaal, Now Zealand. Canada, S 

 Australia, France, Belgium, England, and the Onited States. Bdward Bl 

 of England, was elected president, and YV. A. Lippincott of the Ki 

 and Station, succeeded Dr. Raymond Pearl, formerly «-f the Main- Station, as 

 secretary. Dr. Pearl was made the first fellow of the association, in re 

 tion of his services as secretary since the organization of the association in 1912. 



On invitation of the Netherlands Government a World's Poultry Conjj 

 is to he held at The Hague in 1921 under the auspices of the association. 



Philippine College of Agriculture and Experiment Station. -Three addi- 

 tional agricultural schools have been authorized hy the Philippine Legislature 

 The College of Agriculture had its appropriation largely Increased and 

 vision was made for the establishment of tin experiment station In conn* 

 with it. 



Considerahle progress is already reported in the development of the station. 

 A tract of about 200 hectares i nearly 500 acres) of good agricultural 

 adjoining the land of the College of Agriculture at Los I icqulred. 



Permanent poultry houses have been built ami material secur.ii for a barn and 

 other farm buildings. Two laboratory buildings are projected, .-lie t.. t 

 the department of entomology and plant pathology, and the other the depart- 

 ment of chemistry. Considerahle live stock at..! machinery bai 

 secured. 



New Agricultural School in Lyon. France.— Accordi:,_- to a \ Hilar 



report, definite steps have been taken to establish a lart 

 in the city of Lyon. It has been decided to purchase two largi 

 prising some 293 acre- for this purpose, at a cost of about .<si.ih;o 

 estimated that the expense of buying the property, putting it in 

 will amount to about $125,450. Modern mad to he Installed at. 



attention given to practical Instruction. 



