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Nebraska, receiving the degree of B. S., in 1888, and that of A. M. 
in 1892. His official record in the profession of agriculture is as 
follows : 
Assistant agriculturist, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, 1888-90; traveled and collected in Europe, Australia and 
Mexico, 1890-92; collected grasses and forage plants in Western 
United States, 1892; Associate Botanist, Shaw School of Botany, 
St. Louis, 1892-93; Assistant Botanist, St. Louis Botanical Gar- 
dens, 1893-95 ; Assistant, Division of Botany, United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, 1895 ; Assistant Chief, Division of 
Agrostology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1895-99; Assist- 
ant, Division of Botany, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1899- 
1900; Chief, Section of Seed and Plant Introduction, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, 1900-01 ; Special Agent in Charge, Ha- 
waii Agricultural Experiment Station, since March, 1901. 
Besides association with other learned societies, Mr. Smith is a 
member of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences ; a Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science; a Mem- 
ber of the National Geographical Society, and an Associate Mem- 
ber of the Botanical Society of America. He is the author of 
some thirty Bulletins on Grasses, Forage Plants and Range Con- 
ditions in the United States, and also of much literature dealing 
with the promotion of agriculture in Hawaii. His systematic 
work has been chiefly on Botany, and includes Alismaceae, 
Gramineae. Sagittaria. Lophotocarpus, Sitanion, Agropyron, and 
Hordeaceae. 
LABORS AVI XG APPLIANCES. 
In a summary of data prepared for farmers' wives in connec- 
tion with the extension work of the New York Agricultural Col- 
lege and Experiment Station, the need for kitchen conveniences 
is insisted upon. "A clerk does not like a poor pen, a typewriter 
a poor machine, nor a carpenter a poor saw. So the expeditious 
cook objects to poor cooking utensils. They are a bar to progress, 
a menace to the success of her enterprise, and a serious temptation 
to her serenity of temper. Stirring cake with a small, frail spoon, 
beating eggs with a loose- jointed egg beater, as well as many 
other crippling processes, should not be her lot to endure." As 
the writer quoted points out, the needed utensils cost money, but 
so do all labor-saving and useful devices, and it is fitting to ask 
whether the labor-saving devices in the house have kept pace 
with those purchased for use in the barn or fields. If the farmer's 
wife and daughters can economize in time and energy required for 
household tasks they will have leisure for other duties and pleas- 
ures and for rest and recreation. 
