NOTES. 



Kansas College and Station. — Work has been begun on the new hog cholera 

 plant to consist of a two-story brick building 60 by 40 feet for laboratories, and 

 an office, a crematory for refuse, and a set of cement hog pens. The cost of the 

 plant will be about $10,000. 



Charles H. Taylor has been appointed in charge of animal husbandry work 

 in the extension division. John W. Calvin, assistant in animal nutrition, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of agricultural chemistry and assistant 

 chemist in the Nebraska University and Station beginning February 1. V. V. 

 Detwiler has been appointed assistant in industrial journalism. 



South Dakota College. — Press reports announce that President R. L. Slagle 

 has been appointed president of the University of South Dakota beginning 

 February 1. Dr. O. E. White, formerly instructor in botany and subsequently 

 an assistant and graduate student at the Bussey Institution, has accepted an 

 appointment as plant breeder in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. — ^At the sixty-fifth 

 meeting of this association, held at Atlanta December 29, 1913 to January 3, 

 1914, former Dean Bailey of Cornell University was chosen vice-president of 

 Section M, the new section on agriculture. The Society of American Foresters 

 was accepted as an affiliated society. The next meeting of the association will 

 be held in Philadelphia. 



Massachusetts Federation for Rural Progress. — This organization was formed 

 at a meeting held at the Massachusetts Agricultural College October 21, 1913, 

 imder the auspices of the college, the State Board of Education, the State 

 Grange, and the Western Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce. About 15 or- 

 ganizations participated in the meeting. The constitution, as adopted, provides 

 for a council, an executive committee, and three commissions dealing respec- 

 tively with farm improvement", marketing and exchange, and community life. 

 President Butterfield of the college was chosen president. Dr. David Snedden, 

 state commissioner of education, vice-president, and E. L. Morgan, community 

 field agent of the college, secretary-treasurer. 



Third Congress of Tropical Agriculture. — This congress will be held in London, 

 June 23-30, under the presidency of Prof. Wyndham Dunstan, director of the 

 Imperial Institute. Among the topics to be considered are technical research in 

 tropical agriculture, scientific problems in rubber production, methods of de- 

 veloping cotton cultivation in new countries, problems of fiber production, agri- 

 culture in arid countries, and hygiene and preventive medicine in their relation 

 to tropical agriculture. Papers on these subjects may be submitted to, and 

 further information obtained from, the organizing secretaries of the congress, 

 Dr. T. A. Henry and H. Brown, Imperial Institute, London, S. W. 



Fifth International Congress of Rice Culture. — This congress is to be held at 

 Valencia, Spain, during the second week in May. It will be divided into sections 

 dealing with the breeding, manuring, culture, and harvesting of rice, rice dis- 

 eases, commerce in rice, and cooperative methods in rice production and market- 

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