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SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 



81 



Concerning the C. S. T. A. and Its Branches 



By the GENERAL-SECRETARY 



APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP 



Since tlic iiul)licati(in of our .laiiuary is.sue, the fol- 

 lowing applications for iiienilicrsliip in the Canadian 

 Soeiet}' of Technical Agriculturists have lieen received: 



Cloutier, Henri, (Laval, 1912, B.S.A.), Three Rivers, 

 P.Q. 



Coon, H. A. (Queens, 1919, B.A.) S.S.B., Calgary, 

 Alta. 



Godbout, A. (Laval, 1913, B.A., 1918, B.S.A.) Ste. 

 Anne de La Pocatiere, P.Q. 



Laflamme, A. (Laval, 1918, B.S.A. ), Beaueeville 

 West P.Q. 



Letourneau, A. (Laval, 1916, B.S.A.) Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, Quebec, P.Q. 



MacKenzie, N. D. (Toronto, 1909, B.S.A.), Exp. Farm, 

 Indian Head, Sa.sk. 



Matthews, A. E. (MeGill, 1920, B.S.A.) Oloverdale, 

 B. C. 



Methot, Paul, (Laval, 1920, B.S.A.) Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, Quebec, P.Q. 



Prince, G., (Laval, 1920, B.S.A.) Riviere du Moulin, 

 P.Q. 



Landry, Albert (Laval, 1917, B.S.A.) Ste. Therese, 

 P.Q. 



Heroux, Albert (Laval, 1917, B.S.A.) Montreal, P.Q. 



Gosselin, J. E. (Laval, 1917, B.S.A.) Richmond, P.Q. 



These names should be added to the 509 names which 

 were published in our last issue, raising the total mem- 

 bership to 521. 



CHANGES IN ADDRESSES. 



The following changes should be noted in the 

 addresses of some of our members, as published in our 

 last issue ; the addresses here given are correct : 



J. E. Britton, Kelo^\^la, B.C. 



E. S. Hayter, Demonstratiion Farm, Killarney, ilan. 

 W. L. MacFarlane, Fox Harbour Point, N.S. 



F. Larose, Plantagenet, Ont. 



J. A. Ste. Marie, 2 Place Youville, Montreal, P.Q. 



G. C. Routt, Agr. Extension Work, ("ai'roltoii, Kv., 

 U. S. A. 



M. H. Howitt, Macdonald College, P.Q. 



C. Lyster, Montreal, P.Q. 



E. F. Neelands, Prison Farm, Guelph, Ont. 



C. H. Hodge, Family Herald & Weekly Star, Mont- 

 real, P. Q. 



L. V. Parent, Co-operative Wool Growers, Lennox- 

 ville. P.Q. 



Osborne Cook, Maeklin, Sask. 



A. B. Baird, Entomological Laboratory, Frederic- 

 ton, N. B. J. D. French, 240, Fall St., Seneca Falls. 

 N. Y., U. S. A. J. A. McLean, Fritz Carlton Hotel, 

 Boston, Mass. U. S. A. R. C. Treherne, Entomologi- 

 cal Laboratory, Vernon, B. C'. Wilfrid Delaney. 

 Pajiineauville, P. Q. Bruno Chartier, L "Islet, P. Q. 

 .1. A. Filion, Plessisville, P. Q. C. A. Fontaine, Ins- 

 titut Agronomicpie, 16 Claude Bernard, Paris. France. 

 Geo. (iclinas, Hebertville Sta., Lac St-.]can, P. Q. 

 Arthur Lanrarre, DrummondviHe, P. Q. .1. Tj. Lange- 

 vin, La ^Malbaie, P. Q. C. M. Loiiriniinth. Dept. of 

 Public Works, Regina. Saslc. 



If any of our members have changed their addresses, 

 and the address given in the January issue is incorrect, 

 the General S('ci-etar\- sliould be notified a1 once. 



MACDONALD COLLEGE NOTES. 



(Note. — Reixirts similar to the following, fui'nished 

 periodically by the various departments of agriculture 

 and the agricultural colleges, will be gladly published 

 in "Scientific Agriculture," and will be of particidar 

 interest to readers of that magazine). 



Dr. F. C. Harrison, Principal of Macdonald College, 

 was, in his absence, elected as President of the Society 

 of American Bacteriologists, at their annual meeting 

 held at Chicago, III., Dec. 28th., 29th. and 30th., 1920. 

 The Society has a membership of about 1,000. The fact 

 of a Canadian being appointed to the head of an Amer- 

 ican association is a matter of international interest. 



Professor H. Barton left IMacdonald College on Jan. 

 21st., for Ayr, Scotland, where he goes at the invitation 

 of the Ayrshire Cattle Herdbook Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, to judge at their fair being held 

 on the 9th. and 10th. of February 1921. 



The Biology Department, Macdonald College, has 

 been divided into two Departments: — The Department 

 of Entomology and Zoology, under Professor William 

 Lochhead, and the Department of Botanv, under Pro- 

 fessor B. T. Dickson. 



Mr. Morley A. JuU, M.Se., Manager and Lecturer in 

 the Poultry Department, is on leave of absence, con- 

 tinuing the advanced work at the University of Wis- 

 consin which he began in the summer of 1919. 



Professor Robert Summerby left earlj^ in February 

 for Cornell University, where he will undertake adv- 

 anced sttidies in Plant Breeding and Soil Management. 

 He will return to the College in time for the opening of 

 the session of 1921-1922. 



Dr. G. P. McRostie has been ■ appointed Assistant 

 Professor in the Cereal Husbandry Department of Mae- 

 ilonal College, in charge of grass and clover investiga- 

 tions. Dr. McRostie graduated from the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College in 1912, and after serving with the 

 Ontario Dejiartment of Agriculture as agricultural 

 representative for a time, took up post graduate work 

 at Cornell Universit.y, from which he received the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1919. At Cornell he 

 majored in Plant Breeding and Plant Pathology, and 

 did special work in breeding beans for disease resist- 

 ance. 



Mr. Walter Biffen, B.Sc, N.D.D., has been ajipointed 

 lecturer in the De])artment of Botany. Mr. Biffen 

 graduated from the University of Wales in 1906 with 

 B.Sc, in agriculture and the following year completed 

 the N.D.D. at ^Midland College.. For three years he was 

 Research Assistant in the Imjicrial Department of Agri- 

 culture for the West Indies. Later he taught at 

 Aberystwyth University and Tamworth Agricidtural 

 College. He will teach jiart of the courses in Botany 

 at Macdonald Colh'ge ami will also engage in research 

 work. 



