834 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORD. 



Overton W. Price, assistant eliief of the IJureau of Forestry, has lu>en appointed 

 lecturer in the Forest School of Yale Fniversity. 



Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. —A circular 

 recently issued by the executive coniinittee announces that the next ainiual meeting 

 of the association will be held during the week 1)eginning October 30, 1904. The 

 place of meeting has not been definitely determined upon, but if satisfactory arrange- 

 ments for railroad and lu)tel rates can be secured Des Moines, Iowa, will probably 

 be selected. 



National Farm School. — L. J. Shepard resigned his position as agriculturist of the 

 National Farm School at Doylestown, Pa. , at the close of February to accept a posi- 

 tion in charge of a 700-acre farm in Morristown, N. J. He has been succeeded by 

 W. II. Bishop, formerly of the Delaware College and Station. C. P. Halligan, a 

 graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and recently connected with the 

 Arnold Arbori-tum, has succeeded W. B. Madison as horticulturist, who, as i)revi- 

 ously noted, has gone to the Blount llermon School, near Northfield, Mass. 



Live-stock Exhibit of the Colleges and Stations at St. Louis. — The connnittee on the 

 exhibit of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts and experiment stations at 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition has provided for the exhibition of the work with 

 live stock and in agronomy at these institutions. This will include demonstrations 

 of the methods of teaching and investigation and exhibits of the results of investiga- 

 tion, together with a daily programme of lectures and class demonstrations in stock 

 and grain judging. The exposition authorities are expected to provide suitable 

 quarters, consisting of a judging and demonstration pavilion, with amphitheater of 

 ample seating capacity, and facilities for conducting slaughter and block tests and 

 cooking trials. Exhibits of different classes of live stock have been assigned to differ- 

 ent institutions and w'ill show the results of different methods of feeding, the improve- 

 ment of grade animals by good sires, the influence of age on cost of production, and 

 other points of interest in this connection. A number of slaughter and block tests 

 are planned for. This live-stock exhibit will supplement the exhibits made in the 

 educational building, and should prove a most instructive feature as illustrating the 

 methods which have been worked out at the colleges and stations. 



County Experiment Stations. — Under this caption Wallaces' Farmer describes the 

 exijerimental work done last year on the Sioux County, Iowa, poor farm in coopera- 

 tion with the experiment station at Ames, and notes the movement of other counties to 

 follow the example. The trials at the Sioux County farm were with varieties of corn, 

 and were laid out and supervised by representatives of the State station. The results 

 reported are of so much interest that the future financial suj^port of the undertaking is 

 assured. At least four other counties in the State will conduct experimental work on 

 their poor farms this season. The value of these experiments to the farmers in such 

 lines as growing seed corn acclimatized and suited to the immediate locality is pointed 

 out, and other useful lines suggested which will make the county poor farms "practi- 

 cal experiment stations of the greatest value." The writer predicts that in a few 

 years every county dominated by j^rogressive farmers "will insist that the county 

 poor farm be an experiment station for that county." 



A Pure Seed Bill. — A bill introduced in the National House of Representatives to 

 prevent the adulteration of blue grass, orchard grass, and clover seed, has been fav- 

 orably reported, with amendments, by the Committee on Agriculture. The bill pro- 

 hibits the interstate and international traffic in seed of orchard grass, Kentucky blue 

 grass, red clover, mammoth clover, or alfalfa, which is mixed, adulterated, or mis- 

 branded; and provides a penalty of not less than $200 or more than $500 for the 

 first offense, and from $300 to $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, for 

 each subsequent offense. An inspection of the varieties of seed mentioned, to extend 

 throughout the w^hole country, is to be made by the Bureau of Plant Industry of this 



