INCREASE IN FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT. 71 



A short course in horticulture was held at Davis, Cal., April 26 to 

 May 20, at which a special feature was a preparatory course for pros- 

 pective horticultural commissioners and inspectors under the new 

 State law. The course was preceded by a three-day conference of 

 Pacific slope entomologists at Berkeley, for the consideration of the 

 special insect problems of the region. At this conference a perma- 

 nent organization was effected under the name of Pacific Slope Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists. Active membership is restricted 

 to official and professional entomologists of the Pacific slope. C. W. 

 Woodworth was elected president and W. B. Ilerms secretary-treas- 

 urer of this new association. 



The enforcement of the new stallion inspection law in North Da- 

 kota was placed in charge of the North Dakota college and station, 

 and immediately under the head of the animal husbandry division. 

 Stallion registration laws are now in operation in 15 States. The 

 object of these laws is to exclude unsound or diseased animals from 

 service, and guard against fraud in the case of animals claimed to be 

 pure bred. An organization of officials charged with the administra- 

 tion of these laws, mainly college and station men, was formed in 

 the summer of 1910, with a view to securing unification of the State 

 laws. 



At the second annual meeting of the Association of Feed Control 

 Officials of the United States, which is composed largely of experi- 

 ment station men, the importance of enacting and enforcing uniform 

 and just laws relating to the manufacture and sale of feeding stuffs 

 was discussed, and a draft for a uniform State feeding-stuffs law rec- 

 ommended by the executive committee was adopted. A list of defi- 

 nitions of terms used to describe by-products used as feeding stufi^s 

 for live stock was also discussed and adopted. 



Under an act signed by President Taft April 26, 1910, the manu- 

 facture, sale, or transportation in interstate commerce, the District 

 of Columbia, or the Territories, of adulterated or misbranded Paris 

 green, lead arsenate, and other insecticides and fungicides is prohib- 

 ited after January 1, 1911, at which time the act goes into effect. 



An association of college and station workers interested in the 

 sul)ject of farm management was formed during the course of the 

 graduate school at Ames, Iowa, and a society of milling and baking 

 technology has also been organized. 



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The revenues of the stations for the year aggregated nearly 

 $3,000,000. Of this amount $1,344,000 was received from the Federal 

 Government and the balance was contributed by the States and from 

 local sources. These local agencies are, therefore, more than 

 doubling the funds of tlie stations from Federal sources. 



