96 EXPEKIMEIs^T STATION EECOBD. 



In the station, J. H. Muncie, assistant botanist, has accepted the positloii of 

 assistant pathologist in the Michigan Station and has been succeeded by 

 Richard C. Walton. W. M. Cook and M. O. Bugby of the department of co- 

 operation have bean detailed as acting county agents for Greene and Trum- 

 bull counties, respectively, with headquarters at Xenia and Warren. 



Oregon College. — Schools of forestry and mines have been organized with 

 George W. Peavy, formerly head of the department of forestry, and Henry 

 Martin Parks, professor of mining, as the respective deans. G. D. Horton 

 (M. S., Yale, 1913) has been appointed instructor in bacteriology. 



The course in agriculture offered during Farmers' Week in December, 1913, 

 attracted more than 600 farmers. Special attention was given to cooperative 

 marketing and rural organization, addresses being given by experts in asso- 

 ciated industries and by Dr. Hector Macpherson, the Oregon member of the 

 American commission on European cooperative systems. More than 200 

 farmers and housewives registered for the short course beginning January 5. 



Arrangements have been made by the extension director and the superin- 

 tendent of the State Department of Education for cooperative management of 

 the various district, county, and state school fairs. According to the revised 

 plans for holding the fairs more emphasis will be placed on method and less on 

 result. The exhibit system will be progressive, winners in the local fairs 

 been eligible to make entries in the next higher fair. Exhibitors in the state 

 fair will be given instruction in agricultural subjects and possibly provided with 

 a summer camp while the fair is in progress. 



Porto Rico College. — F. L. Stevens, dean of the college of agriculture and pro- 

 fessor of vegetable pathology, has been appointed professor of plant pathology 

 in the department of botany of the University of Illinois. 



Washington College. — W. O. Ellis has been appointed instructor in entomology. 



XJ. S. Department of Agriculture. — The investigations conducted for several 

 years by the Dairy Division in soft cheese making at the Connecticut Storrs 

 Station, on the ripening of Cheddar cheese at the Wisconsin Station, and on 

 milk secretion at the Missouri Station, have been discontinued. Dr. Charles 

 Thom, J. M. Currie, and K. J. Matheson are to continue the soft cheese work at 

 Washington. 



Miss A, C. Evans, assistant bacteriologist at the W^isconsin Station, and P. A. 

 Wright, assistant chemist at the Missouri Station, have also been transferred to 

 Washington, where they will undertake work in the bacteriology and chemistry 

 of milk and its products along lines similar to those in which they were pre- 

 viously engaged. 



Commission on Meat Supply. — A commission to investigate the economic causes 

 of the present condition of the meat industry, with a view to suggesting pos- 

 sible methods of improvement, has been appointed by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture. The personnel of the commission is as follows: Assistant Secretary 

 B. T. Galloway, chairman; President H. J. Waters of Kansas; Dean C. F. 

 Curtiss of Iowa ; H. W. Mumford of Illinois ; Dr. A. D. Melvin of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry ; and Dr. T. N. Carver of the Rural Organization Service. 



Sixth Graduate School of Agriculture, — Arrangements are being completed for 

 the sixth session of the graduate school, which will be held at the University 

 of Missouri June 29 to July 24. Dr. A. C. True, director of this Office, will 

 again serve as dean, and the faculty will include leading scientists and experts 

 from this Department, the agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and 

 other universities, colleges, and scientific institutions in America and Europe. 



Instruction will be offered under the following general heads: Genetics, 

 agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, immunity and disease resistance In 



