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20. E. E. Binford, superintendent of the Beeville substation, became professor 

 of agriculture in tlie John Tarleton College and was succeeded by I. E. Cowart, 

 previously assistant professor of horticulture. 



F. D. Fuller, formerly chief deputy State chemist of Indiana and more re- 

 cenlly in commercial work, has been appointed chief of the division of feed 

 control service. W. E. Jackson became assistant entomologist of the station, 

 October 1, 1917, for work in combating foul brood. Dr. H. Schmidt, veterina- 

 rian, and Carl Abell, scientific assistant and station illustrator, are now in 

 military service, tlie latter being succeeded by Miss Edith H. Phillips. 



Virgrinia Truck Station. — A 75-acre farm in Accomac County has been rented 

 for the use of the .station in conducting experiments on sweet potatoes, Irisli 

 potatoes, strawberries, and other truck crops grown in the county. The farm 

 will be equipped with modern buildings and operated for experimental pur- 

 poses. 



Albert White, instructor in horticulture at the Pennsylvania College, has 

 been appointed assistant horticulturist, assuming his duties November 1.5. 



Wyoming University and Station. — Dr. H. G. Knight, dean of the college of 

 agriculture and director of the station, has accepted the corre.sponding posi- 

 tion at the Oklahoma College and Station, effective February 1, and has been 

 succeeded by A. D. Faville. Dr. H. M. Martin, assistant in animal diseases, 

 is now in military service. 



Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science.— The thirty-eighth meet- 

 ing of this society was held at Washington, D. C, November 12 and 13, 1917. 

 The sessions were unusually well attended. The program dealt particularly 

 with war conditions, but covered a wide range of subject matter. 



The presidential address was given by Dr. Herbert Osborn at a joint session 

 held with the American Society of Agronomy. Dr. Osborn took for his subject 

 The Outlook in Agricultural Science, discussing some of the notable develop- 

 ments in various lines and some effects of the v/ar upon agricultural science. 

 He pointed out that when the war emergency arose, it found a great body of 

 trained workers already mobilized, in whom the public had confidence and 

 whose recommendations were accordingly widely followed. The outlook for 

 material support of agricultural institutions he characterized as unusually 

 favorable. The prospective shortage of younger workers he suggested might 

 be lessened to some extent by the retention in service of older men who would 

 ordinarily seek retirement. Since the immediate duty of agricultural science, 

 as of all other interests, is to win the war, all efforts should be energetically 

 put forth in this specific direction. 



At the same session Dr. L. H. Bailey delivered an address of wide general 

 interest entitled Permanent Agriculture and Democracy. This address was 

 suggested by his observations of the agricultural situation in China, where 85 

 per cent of the people are engaged in agriculture but under a scale of living 

 which he characterized as reduced to the lowest possible terras. On the basis 

 of his ob.servations he discussed such fundamental questions as the fanner's 

 place in the Nation as the " keeper of the earth," the need of broad vision as 

 well as specialized knov.iedge on tlie part of those attempting to advise on rural 

 problem.s, the fallacy of too small holdings and overinteusive methods, and the 

 wide difference between " permanent " and " stationary " agriculture. 



The program of technical papers was as follows: The Function of Organic 

 Matter in the Maintenance of Soil Fertility, by C. E. Thorne; How Farmers 

 Acquire Their Farms, by W. J. Spillman ; Vegetation Experiments on the Avail- 

 ability of Treated Phosphates, by J. G. Lipman ; Wheat Production and Con- 

 sumption during Peace and War Times, by H. Snyder; Shall We Recommend 



