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Wyoming Station. — C. J. Oviatt, state leader of farm management, resigned 

 to take effect April 20, to accept a commercial position. 



International Commission of Agriculture. — At a meeting held in Paris, Feb- 

 ruary 23, tills body considered the invitation extended by the Panama-Pacific 

 International Exposition to hold the Eleventh International Congress of Agri- 

 culture at San Francisco in 1915. The decision was reached that it was impos- 

 sible for the commission to organize such a congress at San Francisco, but that 

 it held itself ready to undertake the sending of a European delegation to a 

 congress organized by Americans. 



The proposition of organizing agricultural groups in the governing bodies of 

 the various countries into an international body was also discussed. The com- 

 mission decided that a preferable procedure was the addition to its own mem- 

 bership of representatives of these groups and that it would welcome for con- 

 sideration such questions as the national sections should deem it advisable to 

 submit to it. 



International Phytopathological Conference. — This conference was held iu 

 Rome, February 24 to March 5, with 50 delegates representing 35 countries in 

 attendance. An international convention was proposed under which adhering 

 countries would pledge themselves to enact legislation and administrative meas- 

 ures to prevent the dissemination of plant disease within their own borders, 

 and especially to organize an efficient system of nursery inspection. The estab- 

 lishment in each country of one or more institutions for scientific research in 

 plant diseases and the providing of phytopathological certificates for exported 

 nursery stock were also advocated. 



Sixth Annual Corn Exposition. — This exposition, which was held at Dallas, 

 Tex., February 10-24, was of much educational significance. An unusually 

 complete exhibit was made by this Department, covering 10,000 square feet of 

 floor space, and including many subjects of agricultural and general educational 

 interest. Nine branches were represented, including the Forest Service, the 

 Weather Bureau, the Agricultural Education Service of this Office, the Office 

 of Public Roads, and the Bureaus of Animal Industry, Plant Industi*y, Soils, 

 Entomology, and Chemistry. Probably the most extensive portion of this 

 exhibit was that dealing with the making and maintenance of good roads. This 

 included a large number of models showing the various stages and methods of 

 road making, the use of road machinery, and the value and use of different 

 materials in road making. 



Some very striking exhibits were also made by about 30 of the agricultural 

 colleges and experiment stations, as well as by other educational institutions. 

 The stations' exhibits, for the most part, dealt especially with some one im- 

 portant phase of their work. Thus, the Illinois Station gave special prominence 

 to its corn breeding, Missouri to seed selection, Nebraska to studies of the 

 amounts of moisture used by plants at different stages of their growth, Louis- 

 iana to its accomplishments in working out some of the problems of the sugar 

 industry, Iowa to soil studies, California to orchard fumigation, Colorado to 

 cereal breeding work, Wyoming to wool production, and South Carolina to cotton. 

 Cornell University again exhibited the model for the rural community center. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. — At a recent meeting 

 of the council, Dr. E. W. Allen of this Office was elected secretary of the new 

 Section M, on agriculture. The selection of a sectional committee for the 

 section and also its representative on the council was entrusted to the vice- 

 president, Dr. L. H. Bailey, and the secretary of the section. 



