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For the late blight, you sim])ly use Bordeaux mixture, composed of 

 four pints of copper sulphate and four pints of lime in fifty gallons 

 of water. 



A member asked a question about storing potatoes. 



MR. AGEE : We simply bulk them. As a matter of fact, if you 

 want to save your potatoes for the spring market, after they get 

 ripe, you can put them into cellars, thousands of bushels in bulk, 

 and they will do very little sprouting until after the first of March. 

 That is our commercial way of handling our potato crop. 



Adjourned until this evening. 



State College, Pa., Thursday Evening, October 13, 1904. 



Hon. W. H. Brosius, Chairman, called the Institute to order at 

 7.30. 



Mrs. H. A. Surface and Mr. H. E. Saunders entertained the audi- 

 ence with solos, which were much appreciated. 



The program for the evening consisted of illustrated lectures, the 

 first of whicli was given by Mr. Crosby, of Washington, D. C, a 

 S3'nopsis of which is as follows: 



NATURE STUDY AND AGRICULTURE IN THE PUBLIC 



SCHOOL. 



Br Mr. D. J. CiloSBr, OMce of Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



(Mr. Crosby illustrated his lecture by stereopticon slides. Owing 

 to the fact that Mr. Crosby spoke without manuscript, and that the 

 room was so darkened as to prevent our official stenographer from 

 taking notes, only a general outline of the lecture can be given in 

 this connection.) 



The speaker began by reviewing very briefly the American system 

 of agricultural education, showing the progress that has been made 

 in recent years toward the development of instruction in agriculture 

 in the secondary and elementary schools. This progress has been 



