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committees the need was emphasized for better trained teachers and 

 investigators in dairying, and for efficient extension workers among 

 the dairy farmers. 



A rural life conference was held at Morristown, N. J., November 19. 

 The speakers included President K. L. Butterfield, of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, who spoke on the rural church in country 

 life; Assistant Secretary W. M. Hays, of this department, who dis- 

 cussed the rural school systems and agricultural high schools; Miss 

 Sarah B. Askew, of the New Jersey State Library, who spoke of the 

 benefits of traveling libraries to country people; Mrs. Frank Ambler 

 Pattison, president of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's 

 Clubs, as to the possibilities of such clubs in rural districts; and 

 Preston G. Orwig, organizing secretary of the Boy Scouts of America, 

 and Dr. George E. Fisher, of the international committee of the 

 y. M. C. A., regarding certain phases of their work for country boys. 

 During the conference a commission was appointed to study rural 

 conditions in Morris and Essex Counties, with a view to putting into 

 practical working the suggestions presented. 



At the Twelfth Annual Convention of Southern States Association 

 of Commissioners of Agriculture, held at Atlanta, Ga., November 21 

 and 22, a change in name to that of Southern Agricultural Workers 

 was decided upon, with the view of broadening the scope of the or- 

 ganization and including in its membership representatives from 

 agricultural colleges, experiment stations, farmers' institutes, and 

 others actively engaged in agricultural work. 



The Eleventh International Live Stock Exposition, held at Chicago, 

 November 26 to December 3, continued the successes of former years. 

 The agricultural colleges and experiment stations also fully main- 

 tained their position of leadership, figuring largely in the prize win- 

 nings, and in the lists of judges. Their entries were as usual very 

 strong in the fat-stock classes. The Iowa college won the much- 

 coveted grand championship for single steers with Shamrock II, an 

 Angus calf weighing 1,100 pounds at 10 months of age, and the Kansas 

 college first place for 2-year-olds. The intercollegiate student-judging 

 competition was keenly contested by teams from nine institutions, 

 first place going to the University of Missouri. The annual meeting 

 of the American Federation of Agricultural Students was held during 

 the exposition. 



At the convention of the Southern Educational Association in 

 Chattanooga, December 27-29, considerable attention was given at 

 both general and special sessions to the different phases of agricul- 

 tural education. Representing this department. Assistant Secretary 

 W. M. Hays gave an illustrated address on ''Vocational education;" 

 Dr. A. C. True read a paper on "Correlating the work in agricultural 

 education;" Dr. S. A. Knapp gave an address on "Our losses; or what 



