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The new station bacteriological laboratory Is nearing completion and will be 

 utilized in studies of atypical anthrax, which is causing serious losses among 

 cattle, and the control of contagious epithelioma in fowls. Dr. E. Records has 

 been appointed bacteriologist in the station. 



Cornell University.— Bristow Adams, in charge of the information division of 

 the Forest yer\ice of this Department, has accepted an appointment as head of 

 the new department of information in the college of agriculture and has en- 

 tered upon his duties. E. G. Misner has been appointed instructor in exten- 

 sion teaching. Of the 1914 graduates, T. A. Baker has been appointed as- 

 sistant in animal hi>sbandry and L. E. Harvey and William I. Myers assistants 

 in farm management. 



New York State Station. — Clarence D. Parker and Allen K. Burke have 

 resigned as assistant chemists, the former to enter the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 and the latter to engage in commercial work. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — TV. L. Carlyle, formerly director of the Idaho 

 Station, has been appointed director of the station and dean of the agricultural 

 work, and has entered upon his duties. 



A. F. Rolf has resigned as head of the poultry department to engage in live- 

 stock extension work in Louisiana. 



Oregon College and Station. — A conference of Pacific Coast horticulturists 

 was called by Governor West at the college early in December, 1914, to consider 

 legislation designed to secure uniformity in inspection laws to px'otect growers 

 against the introduction and spread of insect and disease pests, both within 

 the States and from other States. Commissioners of horticulture from each of 

 the States were in attendance, and the joint committee appointed to draft the 

 proposed measures called to their assistance experts from the college to assist 

 them. 



Dr. James Withycombe, former director of the station, was elected Governor 

 of Oregon at the last election by the heaviest majority ever accorded a" guberna- 

 torial candidate in the State. 



Dr. Hector Macpherson, head of the newly established college bureau of farm 

 organization and management, has been elected chairman of a commission 

 appointed by Governor West to prepare a draft of a rural credits bill for pre- 

 sentation to the next legislature. 



C. S. Brewster has accepted an appointment as research assistant in poultry 

 and R. B. Thompson as foreman of the poultry plant. 



Washington College and Station. — Dr. E. A. Bryan, president of the college 

 for the past 22 years, has resigned to take effect January 1, 1916. Dr. F. D. 

 Heald, former pathologist in the Pennsylvania chestnut blight investigations, 

 has been appointed professor of plant pathology In the college and plant pathol- 

 ogist in the station. 



West Virginia University and Station. — E. D. Sanderson, dean of the college 

 of agriculture and director of the station, has resigned to take effect September 

 1, when he expects to pursue graduate studies. 



Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. — At the thirty-fifth annual 

 meeting of the society, held at Washington, D. C, November 10, 1914, the 

 following papers were read and discussed : 



The Massachusetts State Forestry Work was presented by F. W. Rane. 

 It was asserted that the general forest px'opaganda in the United States is too 

 exclusively academic, and is not pushed energetically enough to give results 

 in actual reforestation and forest extension. Details of the Massachusetts 

 forestry work were discussed at length, including regulations regarding fire 

 wardens. State purchase of improductive lands, etc. 



