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which will have the twofold purpose of testing the bread-making 

 capacity of flours from diiferent kinds of wheat and of conducting 

 experiments in the technology of baking. Later it is hoped to erect 

 an experimental mill for use in conducting studies on milling quali- 

 ties of wheats and of milling operations. The new department will 

 cooperate with the entomologist in studies of insects damaging stored 

 wheat and flour in transit, with the botanist in the control of plant 

 diseases which affect the quality of flour, and with the agronomist in 

 the distribution of improved seed wheat. Much interest is being 

 manifested in the new clejDartment, and the millers of the State are 

 actively cooperating in the work. 



At the Nebraska University and station, L. W. Cliase, of the de- 

 partment of agiicultural engineering in the college of agriculture, 

 was added to the station council with the title of agricultural en- 

 gineer, and is conducting investigations in farm drainage and sani- 

 tation and the use of cement for farm purposes. 



In Ohio the assembly authorized the establishment of the depart- 

 ment of dairy husbandry at the station and appropriated $8,000 for 

 its support. Among the lines of investigation which are contem- 

 plated are the production of daiiy stock, including feeding and 

 breeding, utilization of food, the effect of special foods, notably those 

 deficient in phosphorus, the quality of the milk, the birth weight 

 and the vigor of the offspring, and the pathology of the dairy with 

 special reference to tuberculosis. The dairy herd, buildings and 

 equiioment, and a portion of the station pastures are to be trans- 

 ferred to the new department. It is exjDected that the pathological 

 work will be organized as a separate department. Special work in 

 the line of wool investigations under the direction of the department 

 of animal husbandry was recently authorized at this station. 



By an act of the last legislature of North Carolina the duties of 

 the State Crop Pest Commission were transferred to the State board 

 of agriculture. A seed-inspection law was passed, the enforcement 

 of which is left to the State board. The board is further given the 

 authority to sell any of its test farms and to invest the net proceeds 

 in similar farms elsewhere. 



In Washington a feeding-stuffs law was enacted by the last legis- 

 lature, the enforcement of which is to rest with the director of the 

 station. The expenses of the inspection are to be defrayed by the 

 sale of stamps and labels. A seed-inspection law was enacted in 

 Wisconsin, which placed the station in charge of the enforcement of 

 the act. 



In Arizona the station entomologist serves as entomologist of the 

 newly established Territorial horticultural commission, which is 

 charged with carrying out the provisions of a rigid crop pest law 

 providing for inspection and quarantine. 



