members only for the period of time for which they pay Alumni dues in advance and that thus only those who are rea ll y interested in the association and in the institution it represents would ever take out membership under this plan- The amendment provides that any person who has spent at least three quarters and who is not a member of the student body at the time he first applies for membership with the association is eligible for membership and may become a member upon payment of annual dues. This amendment comes up for official consideration at our annual business meeting, June 5. Let us hear from you on this important subject. About sixty different lines of inves ti ga tion ranging from ex periments in sweet-cream buttermakin g to best methods of rotating crops and maintaining the fertility of the soil and including many other problems of ma jor importan ce to the farmers of the state, are reported in the recent Bienni al R eport of the Utah Agricultural Ex periment Station. This report , known as Station Bulletin No. 192 and prepared by Director William Peterson , covers the activities of the Station for the yea rs 1923 and 1924. It may be secured , free of cost. by ad dressi n g Di vision of Publications, Utah Experiment Station, Logan , Utah. 0
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Aggie Alumnus Becomes Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, President of the Kansas Agricu ltural Collzge and a graduate from the Utah Agricultural College with the class of 1904, h as just been named Secretary of Agriculture by Presi dent Coolidge. "The U. A . C. Graduate", w hich contains tabloid histori es of all members of the Alumni association up to and including the class of 1909, gives the following biograph y of Dr. Jardine: "Bill ', as he is affectionaly known by all of his fri ends , made his first appearance at Cherry Creek , Oneida County, Idaho, on January 16, in the year of grace, 1879 . He is probably as pure a Celt as any member of the association , his father coming from Scotland in I 865 and his mother being of W elsh parentage. " Until the age of seve nteen h e spent his life on the farm at Cherry Creek attending the district school three or four months each winter. In the spring of 1895 he went to Big Hole , Montana, where