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The Bureau of Farmers' Institutes held its seventeenth annual normal insti- 

 tute at the university November 10-12. The program included about 50 speakers, 

 particular prominence being given to cooperation and the marketing and distri- 

 bution of farm products. There were special sessions on poultry husbandry and 

 a women's conference. During the same week was also held the third annual 

 meeting of farm bureau managers. 



New York State Station. — Edward J. Lewis, formerly employed in commercial 

 work, has been appointed assistant chemist. He succeeds R. F. Keeler who has 

 been transferred to inspection work, vice F. N. Crawford, resigned to take post- 

 graduate work at the University of Illinois. Arthur J. Mix has been appointed 

 assistant botanist during the absence of M. T. Munn for a j-ear's post-graduate 

 work at the Michigan College. Adin H. Horton, for 25 years an employee of the 

 station and most of this period computer and mailing clerk, died December 9, 

 1915. 



Ohio State University and Station. — County farm bureaus have been estab- 

 lished in Marion, Highland, Sandusky, and Miami counties under tlie direction 

 of M. C. Thomas, Joseph P. Hershberger, K. C. Egbert, and George R. Eastwood, 

 respectively. 



Beginning January 1, the regular series of station bulletins will be limited to 

 technical reports of its investigations and will be sent only to libraries, persons 

 engaged in scientific research, and others who may specifically request them. In 

 their stead there will be sent to the genei'al mailing list a Monthly Bulletin, 

 reporting the progress of the different departments of the station's work in 

 nontechnical form. 



Recent station appointments include L. L. Rummell as editor ; W. L. Robison 

 and D. G. Swanger as assistants in animal husbandry ; and Oliver Gossard and 

 O. H. Smith as assistants in soil investigations. 



Oregon College and Station. — H. P. Barss, research assistant in plant pa- 

 thology, has been appointed professor of botany and plant pathology, succeeding 

 H. S. Jackson whose resignation has been previously noted. 



South Carolina College and Station. — Dr. F. M. Rolfs, associate professor of 

 botany and bacteriology and associate botanist and plant pathologist, has re- 

 signed to accept an appointment at the Oklahoma College and Station. Dr. Roy 

 C. Faulwetter, of Columbia University, has been appointed associate botanist 

 and plant pathologist in the station, giving all his time to station work, and 

 W. B. Aull, assistant to the botanist, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 bacteriology exclusively for teaching work. 



Nursery and Market Garden Experimental and Research Station in Hertford- 

 shire. — This station was established in 1914 by the Nursery and Market Garden 

 Industrial Development Society, Ltd., which is empowered to conduct experi- 

 ments in the cultivation and preparation for market and sale of fruits, flowers, 

 vegetables, trees, shrubs, plants, and similar products in Great Britain, to carry 

 on educational work connected therewith, and to disseminate information re- 

 garding these industries. 



The management of the station is vested in a committee chosen by the Lea 

 Valley and District Nurserymen's and Growers' Association, Ltd., the committee 

 of the Lawes Agricultural Trust, and the County Councils of Essex and Hert- 

 fordshire, including among others, H. E. Armstrong, J. B. Farmer, S. U. Picker- 

 ing, E. J. Russell, J. A. Voelcker, and T. B. Wood, and with A. B. Lister as di- 

 rector. It has been financed mainly by contributions of about $4,000 from local 

 nurserymen and others for permanent endowment, and $1,250 per annum for 

 five years for maintenance, grants of $6,500 from the Development Fund for land 

 and buildings and $3,000 per annum for maintenance, from the Hertfordshire 



