800 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



leaching a wide range of subjects but especially animal husbandry and 

 dairying. 



In his various activities he acquired an unusual acquaintance with the 

 literature of these subjects, particularly as regards animal nutrition and 

 genetics and the history of domestic animals. He gave a course of lectures 

 at the fourth and fifth Graduate Schools of Agriculture, and his preliminary 

 studies as to the ancestry of domesticated cattle, in which he had become 

 a recognized authority, were published in the report of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry for 1910 (E. S. R., 27, p. 172). 



Henry E. Van Deman, well known for his writings and other activities in 

 pomology, died at Washington, D. C, April 28. Professor Van Deman was 

 the first professor of horticulture at the Kansas College and the first head of 

 the division of pomology of this Department. He resigned in 1S93 to take up 

 horticultural, editorial, and other work and has been a contributor to many 

 periodicals and has served as a judge of exhibitions of fruit in nearly every 

 State. 



The death in the European War on ]S'ovember 3, 1914, is reported of Otto 

 Maurei", associated about 1911 with the bacteriological studies on eggs at the 

 Kansas Station. He was educated in Germany and the University of Wisconsin 

 and was 26 years of age. 



Charles H. Martin, who had been working in collaboration with the Roth- 

 amsted Experimental Station on soil protozoa, and had published several 

 contributions on the subject and on the cecal parasites of fowls, was killed 

 iu the European War May 3. 



Miscellaneous. — The Ohio Agricultural Commission was abolished by the recent 

 legislature, being succeeded by a state board of agriculture of 10 members 

 appointed by the governor to serve without compensation and with an executive 

 secretary. All of the powers of the commission will devolve upon the board 

 except the control of the Ohio Station, for which a separate body is provided, 

 and the agricultural extension work, including farmers' institutes, which is 

 placed in the charge of the Ohio State University. 



Breeder's Gazette notes that W. G. Scholtz has been appointetl director of 

 farm markets in Idaho under a new law effective May 8. His duty will be 

 to cooperate with producers and consumers in plans of distribution, to investi- 

 gate alleged frauds in the sale of real estate to homeseekers, regulate adver- 

 tising pertaining to colonization, maintain a farm labor employment bureau 

 and lists of farm property for sale for the use of prospective buyers, and 

 otherwise improve farm life conditions. 



