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plants and animals, and rural economics and sociology, including farm man- 

 agement. 



The course in genetics, comprising 40 lectures and 12 seminars, will include 

 a systematic presentation of the present status and outlook of the subject with 

 special reference to its agricultural relations. The hours of this course will 

 be so arranged that it will be open to all students. 



The courses in agronomy and horticulture will deal mainly with special prob- 

 lems in the breeding and nutrition of field crops and orchard fruits respectively, 

 and that in animal husbandry with breeding and nutrition with particular ref- 

 erence to beef and dairy cattle. 



The course in immunity and disease resistance in plants and animals will 

 include a resume showing the present status of knowledge in these lines and the 

 outlook for future investigations. In connection with this course, conferences 

 of phytopathologists and veterinarians in separate groups are to be arranged on 

 special problems in plant and animal diseases. 



The course in rural economics and sociology, including farm management, 

 will present a survey of the present status of these subjects and discussions of 

 plans for their future development. 



Special arrangements are to be made by which groups of students may study 

 in some detail the methods, records, and equipment of the research work in 

 progress at the Missouri University and Station. General principles regarding 

 the organization and work of institutions for agricultural research and educa- 

 tion will also be discussed in a series of conferences. 



Correspondence relating to the membership in the school should be addressed 

 to A. J. Meyer, Registrar, College of Agriculture, Columbia, Mo. 



Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. — The thirty-fourth annual 

 meeting of the society was held at Washington, November 11, 1913. Two joint 

 sessions were held with the American Society of Agronomy, which met at the 

 same time. 



The address of the president. Dean E. Davenport, was on the subject. How 

 Will Extension Work React Upon Research? The effect of the present popu- 

 larity of demonstration and extension work on the popular mind, on appro- 

 priating bodies, m students, and on the standards of work was traced. This 

 effect was felt to be such that " we may well feel solicitous for both the college 

 and the station, especially for the latter, which can not hope to compete either 

 in spectacular show or in immediate promise with its younger but robustious 

 brother, the extension service." The responsibility was placed upon those in 

 authority to " insist upon and to maintain at all cost a proper balance between 

 real research and all other agencies for agricultural progress, however attrac- 

 tive, however expedient, however necessary." 



In a paper on Feeding Experiments to Determine the Availability of Protein, 

 B. L. Hartwell and R. A. Lichteuthaeler reported work conducted with chickens 

 in which beef scrap and cotton-seed meal were compared on the basis of the 

 nitrogen recovered in analysis of the meat. The method brought out no im- 

 portant difference in availability of the two concentrates. 



The Nutritive Values of Organic and Inorganic Phosphorus were considered 

 in a paper by E. B. Forbes, based on an analysis of a large body of literature 

 relating to work with various kinds of animals, and including some by the 

 author with swine. A lack of harmony was found in the results with different 

 kinds of animals, which could not be explained. The results were not thought 

 to warrant final conclusions, but " the problem now seems to take the form 

 of a question as to whether we shall regard organic phosphorus compounds as 

 of superior nutritive value becauW of the chemical relationship of their phos- 



