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the state apiary inspection ; and by transfer from the College of Agriculture the 

 nursery and orchard inspection, as well as the inspection of insecticides and 

 fungicides. J. G. Sanders has resigned as head of the department of entomology 

 to become state entomologist; Dr. S. B. Fracker, instructor in entomology, to 

 become deputy nursery inspector ; and C. E. Lee, as assistant professor of dairy 

 husbandry and dairy husbandman, to become dairy specialist for the state dairy 

 and food commission. H. F. Wilson, entomologist at the Oregon College and 

 Station has succeeded Professor Sanders, and G. H. Benkendorf, I'rofcssor Lee. 



F. B. Morrison, assistant to the dean, has been made assistant director of the 

 station. W. A. Sumner, assistant in agricultural journalism at the Kansas Col- 

 lege, has been appointed editor of station publications. The last legislature re- 

 duced the annual appropriation for station publications from $17,000 to .$10,000. 



Prospective Agricultural Meetings. — The sixty-eighth meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science will be held in Columbus, Ohio, 

 from December 27, 1915, to .January 1, 1916. Section M (Agriculture) will be 

 addressed by its vice-president, L. H. Bailey, on The Forthcoming Situation in 

 Agricultural Work, part 2. The section has also arranged a symposium on The 

 Relation of Science to Meat Production. 



The American Association of Economic Entomologists, the Entomological 

 Society of America, the Botanical Society of America, the American Phytopatho- 

 logical Society, the Society for Horticultural Science, and the Association of 

 Official Seed Analysts of North America are among the affiliated societies which 

 are to meet with the association. 



The seventh annual meeting of the American Association of Agricultural En- 

 gineers will be held in Chicago, December 28-30. 



American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching. — The 

 sixth annual meeting of this association was held in Berkeley, Cal., August 10. 



A report of the standing committee on The Use of Land in Connection With 

 Agricultural Teaching, prepared by the States Relations Service of this De- 

 partment, was based upon a study of the home-project method as followed in 

 teaching agriculture in the secondary schools of New York. In this method 

 each pupil chooses a project for home study before March 1, and after this 

 date most of the time set aside for laboratory work is devoted to the projects. 

 Part of the time is spent in school in reference reading, the drawing of plans, 

 and such other work as may be done to advantage, and as the summer ap- 

 proaches the project work gradually replaces class work. 



The home-project plan is so new in agricultural instruction that many phases 

 of its application are still in process of development. Among these are its 

 relations to the school course in agriculture, the basis iipon which credit should 

 be given, and the relation of the home project to club work. 



The home-project plan is considered a promising means of bringing the home 

 and school together in educational problems. To be effective, however, hearty 

 cooperation should exist between parents and teachers ; just how to secure this 

 cooperation is still a problem. 



Projects may be gi-ouped according to their chief aim, as production projects, 

 the chief purpose of which is to produce an agricultural product at a profit; 

 demonstration projects, where the chief aim is to demonstrate improved methods 

 or materials; experimental projects, where there is uncertainty as to results; 

 or improvement projects, where students may undertake the improvement 

 of plants and aniiuals, the home grounds, or the farm in general with little 

 hope of immediate returns. There is thus a distinction between a project, the 

 principal aim of v.-hich is profit, and those having other aims predominating, 

 and the question arises as to which class of projects are most desirable from 

 an educational point of view. 



