498 EXPEEIMENT STATION EECOKD. 



Farmers Mail and Breeze; aud E. G. Schafer, instructor iu crops, to become 

 professor of agronouiy and agronomist in the Washington College and Station. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — The state appropriations for 1913 aggre- 

 gate $97,500 to the college and .$83,700 to the station, in addition to $10,000 for 

 the live-stock commission and $26,000 for nursery inspection aud farmers' insti- 

 tutes. The college appropriations include $6,000 for summer courses in agri- 

 culture, $20,000 for short winter courses, $20,000 for furnishing and equipping 

 the agricultural buildings, $7,000 for repairs and improvements, $7,500 for the 

 departments of bacteriology, biology, aud botany, $2,000 for the library, 

 and $5,000 for clay working and ceramics. The station items are $28,000 for 

 salaries, $2,500 for improvements to the station building, $3,000 for printing, 

 $3,000 each for poultry husbandry and floriculture, $2,000 for the seed labora- 

 tory, $1,000 for insecticide insi>ection, $40,000 for mosquito extermination, 

 and $1,200 for the investigation of oyster propagation. 



The plans for the new agricultural building have been completed, and work 

 will be begun this summer. The building is to cost $100,000, is to be of brick and 

 concrete construction, and is to provide laboratory facilities for the research 

 departments of the station and offices for members of the staff. 



The first session of the summer courses in agriculture opened with an enroll- 

 ment of 312 students. 



The following appointments are noted : Alva Agee, chief of the extension 

 department, as professor of soil fertility ; A. W. Blair, associate soil chemist 

 and bacteriologist of the college station, as associate professor of agricultural 

 chemistry; M. A. Blake, associate professor of horticulture, as professor of hor- 

 ticulture; F. C. Minkler, assistant professor of animal husbandy, as associate 

 professor ; H. R. Lewis, instructor in dairy and poultry husbandry, as assistant 

 professor of poultry husbandry ; Dr. F. B. Chidester, instructor in biology, as 

 assistant professor; George W. Martin as assistant in plant pathology; Glenn L. 

 Pyle as assistant chemist; Joseph J. Williams as microscopist ; and Eobert 

 Schmidt as assistaut seed analyst. H. Clay Lint, a graduate of the Kansas 

 College, has accepted the industrial fellowship in plant pathology, beginning 

 July 15. 



North Carolina College and Stations. — W. F. Pate, instructor in chemistry, has 

 been appointed agronomist in soils, and F. N. McDowell assistant agronomist 

 in soils. 



Vermont University and Station. — Hon. Cassius Peck, whose retirement after 

 twenty years' active service on the board of control has been previously noted, 

 died July 12. 



Fiftieth Meeting of American Veterinary Medical Association. — The fiftieth 

 meeting of this association was held in New York City September 1-5, as 

 already noted (E. S. R., 29, p. 301). An address on the history of the associa- 

 tion, prepared by Dr, Alexander Liautard, the honorary president of the asso- 

 ciation and its sole surviving charter member, was presented. Dr. Liautard 

 pointed out that while at the first meeting of this association the only States 

 represented were New York, Pennsylvania, INIassachu setts. New Jersey, Dela- 

 ware, Maine, and Ohio, and a large part of those in attendance were physicians, 

 agriculturists, and other nonveterinarians, by 1889 25 States were represented. 

 Subsequently its membership has extended over the entire American continent, 

 causing a change of name from the United States Veterinary Medical Associa- 

 tion to the American Veterinary Medical Association. 



The address of J. R. Mohler, of this Department, as president of the associa- 

 tion, already referred to, dealt with the world-wide progress made in veteri- 

 nary science during the last few years. Special stress was laid upon the part 

 which the American veterinarian has played in its advancement. 



