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lO.WO i»ersons on its trip. W. I>. Fcisfcr lins liccii in-diiKitoil to tbo suiierin- 

 tt'iitleiK-y of the colletio farm. 



Wisconsin University.— Tlio Student Fa ink r .innoiinces that the l)oarcl of 

 I'ejrent.^ has nHciilly established two fellowships at $400 a year and two schohu"- 

 ships at $22."* a year for graduate students in a^'riculture. These are to be 

 open to {graduates of colleyes of recopiized standinj^ and otlier students with 

 ecjuivalent education, and Itotli men and wf)nien are to be eliirible. 



United States Department of Agriculture. — C. B. Lane, assistant chief of the 

 Dairy Division since 10(»3, has resigned to accept a position with a large dairy 

 concern in Philadelphia, taking up his new work aliout June 15. 



James B. Rorer, of the fruit disease investigations of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has accepted a two-year aiti>ointment as mycologist and pathologist 

 for the Board of Agriculture in Trinidad, and has entered upon his duties. 



Dr. C. C. Clark, associate statistician of the Bureau of Statistics, has resigned 

 to become statistician of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. 



Fourth Graduate School of Agriculture. — The fourth session of the Graduate 

 School of Agriculture is to be held during the summer of 1910 at Ames. Iowa, 

 under the auspices of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The 

 school will, as formerly, lie under the general management of the Association 

 of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations through its com- 

 mittee on graduate study, of which Dr. H. "P. Armsby has recently been made 

 chairman. Dr. A. C. True, of this Office, has again consente<l to serve as dean. 



Cuban Experiment Station. — J. T. Crawley resigned as director May 15. The 

 personnel of the station now includes Jose G. Couret as vice-director and the 

 following chiefs of departments: Agriculture, J. C. Pagliery ; animal industry, 

 Emilio L. Luaces ; chemistry, Diego V. Tejeda ; vegetable pathology, W. T. 

 Home ; and botany, vacant ; and twenty-nine assistants. No provision has 

 been made for continuing the horticultural department. It is reported un- 

 officially that Ramon Garcia Oses has been made director of the station. 



Agricultural and Educational Meetings. — The twenty-sixth annual convention 

 of the Association of Oincial Agricultural Chemists is to be held at Denver, 

 Colo., August 2<5-2S, and the meeting of the Association of State and National 

 Food and Dairy Departments is to be at the same place from August 24 to 2T. 

 The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science is to meet at Portland, 

 Oreg., August 17. The fourth Dry Farming Congress is to meet at Billings, 

 Mont, October 26-28. It is aiuiounced that 17 States and 10 foreign countries 

 will be represented by delegates. 



The forty-seventh annual convention of the National Education Association 

 is to be held at Denver July 3-9. The progrannne for the department of rural 

 and agricultural education includes a round table conference on IIow May the 

 Rural Schools be More Closely Related to the Life and Needs of the People. 

 led I»y D. J. Crosby, of this Office, and addresses by S. A. Knapp on Agricultural 

 Education for the Rural Di-stricts, E. E. Balcomb on The Type of Farmers' 

 and Teachers' Institutes Used in Oklahoma to Heli) in Introducing Agriculture 

 and Industrial Work into the Comnum Schools, H. H. Seerley on National 

 Aid in the Preparation of Teachers of Agriculture for the Public Scools, E. C. 

 P.ishop on The Present Status of AgricuKural Education in tlie Public Schools, 

 Josiah .Main on Agriculture Correlated with Science Work for High Schools, 

 and Riley O. Johnsor. on Agriculture for tiie Elementary Schools. Considerable 

 attention to agricultural education and its interests will also be given in other 

 departments, notably those on normal schools and manual training. 



Among the societies to meet with the ass<H-iation are the National Committee 

 on Agricultural Education and the .\niei-ican Home Economics Association. 



