498 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Fuller, who has been associate professor of dairying in the South Dakota College 

 and dairy bacteriologist in the station has been appointed head of the dairy 

 department beginning April 1. C. A. Burns has been appointed assistant in 

 dairying, and W. L. Blizzard and D. A. Spencer assistants in animal husbandry. 



Texas Station. — The governing board of the State substations has been recon- 

 stituted as follows: P. L. Downs of Temple, president; Charles Rogan, of 

 Austin, vice-president ; J. E. Boog-Scott, of Coleman ; and W. P. Hobby, of 

 Beaumont. 11. C. Stewart resigned March 1 as superintendent of the Pecos 

 substation and has been succeeded as acting superintendent by J. W. Jackson, 

 assistant superintendent of the Troupe substation. 



Utah College and Station. — Dr. L. D. Batchelor, professor of horticulture and 

 horticulturist since 1911, has been appointed associate professor of plant breetl- 

 ing in the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture and associate in plant 

 breeding work at the citrus substation at Riverside, Cal., and will also be 

 engaged in extension work. The appointment took effect March 1. 



West Virginia Station. — At the recent session of the legislature, $20,000 per 

 annum was appropriated for the current expenses of the station and $35,000 and 

 $40,000 for the first and second years for agricultural extension work. An act 

 was passed accepting the provisions of the Smith-Lever Act, and another act 

 authorizing county courts to pay part of the salary of county agricultural 

 agents, including women workers, whenever a county agricultural organization 

 of not less than fifty members will guarantee their expenses. 



Paul B. Bennetch, associate professor of dairy husbandry and dairyman at 

 the station, resigned January 1, and the daii'y husbandry work has been com- 

 bined with the department of animal husbandry. G. L. Thompson, a recent 

 graduate of the Iowa College, has been appointed instructor in dairy husbandry. 



Wyoming University and Station. — Ex-governor Joseph M. Carey and Mrs. 

 B. B. Brooks have been appointed to the board of trustees, the former vice 

 Gibson Clark, deceased. S. M. Fuller, assistant in the wool department, has 

 been appointed county agent for Sheridan County, beginning March 15, vice 

 H. E. McCartney, who is to become secretary of the Horse Breeder's Association 

 of Indiana. 



Second Pan-American Scientific Congress. — Preliminary programs have been 

 issued by the State Department for this congress, which will hold its next 

 session in Washington, D. C, from December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916. 

 Appropriations aggregating $50,000 have been made by the United States for 

 the congress, and William Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State, is 

 chairman of the executive committee which is charged with its organization 

 and procedure. George M. Rommel, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, is the 

 representative of this Department on the executive committee. 



The congress will be organized into nine sections. Workers in agricultural 

 science will be especially interested in Section 3, conservation of natural 

 resources, agriculture, irrigation, and forestry, which will be devoted to a con- 

 sideration of the conservation of (a) mineral resources, (b) forests, (c) water 

 for power, (d) animal industry, and (e) plant industry, and to discussions 

 of the agricultural phases of irrigation and the marketing and distribution of 

 agricultural products. Section 2, astronomy, meteorology, and seismology, is to 

 include discussions of agricultural meteorologj' ; Section 4, education, problems 

 of agricultural education and research : Section 5, engineering, the engineering 

 features of irrigation and drainage; Section 7, mining and metallurgy, economic 

 geology and applied chemistry, papers on fertilizers and other agricultural 

 chemical industries; and Section S, public health and medical science, papers 

 on nutritional diseases, food supply, etc. 



