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of Maryland, M. C. Fernakl of Maine, U. II. Goodell of Massachusetts, 

 W. M. Hays of Minnesota, J. A. Myers of West Virginia, M. A. Scovell 

 of Kentucky, J. H. Smart of Indiana. 



On the evening of the 13th, after the close of the convention, the 

 delegates and visitors present were tendered a reception by Kegent 

 Peabody at his residence. After the convention some fifty members 

 visited the Fat Stock Show in Chicago, at the invitation of the Illinois 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



At the meeting of the section on botany the following papers were 

 l^resented : Eeference Books, How to Obtain and Use them, by J. C. 

 Arthur, D. Sc, of the Indiana Station and Purdue University ; An 

 thracnose of Cotton and Black Rot of Cotton, by G. F. Atkinson, Ph. 

 B., of the Alabama College and Station ; Potato Scab, by R. Thax- 

 ter, Ph. D., of the Connecticut State Station ; New Fungous Dis 

 eases, by L. H. Pammel, B. Agr., of the Iowa College and Station ; 

 Fungicides, by D. G. Fairchild of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture; Copper Salts for the Black Rot, by W. B. Alwood of the 

 Virginia Station ; Cooperation in Bulletins, by W. J. Beal, Ph. D., of 

 the Michigan College and Station; Weed Killing in the Prairie States, 

 by C. A. Keft'er of the South Dakota College and Station ; Seed Test- 

 ing and its Value, by G. McCarthy, B. S., of the North Carolina Sta- 

 tion ; Grasses for Arid Regions, by Dr. George Vasey of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture ; The Station Bulletin, by B. D. 

 Halsted, D. Sc, of the New Jersey College and College Station. 



In the section on chemistry the following papers were presented : 

 Recent Work Abroad on the Digestibility of Feeding Stuffs, by H. P. 

 Armsby, Ph. D., of the Pennsylvania Station ; Results of some Investi- 

 gations of the Metabolic Products in Dung and of the Action of Pepsin 

 Solution on Dung, by W. Frear, Ph. D., of the Pennsylvania College 

 and Station; Observations made at the Wisconsin Station on the Size 

 and Number of Fat Globules in Cows' Milk, by F. W. Woll, M. S., 

 of the Wisconsin College and Station ; Netvly Proposed Apparatus and 

 Methods, by E. H. Jenkins, Ph. D., of the Connecticut State Station; 

 The Determination of Phosphoric Acid in Phosphates containing Oxide 

 of Iron and Alumina, by S. W. Johnson, M. A., of the Connecticut 

 State Station and Sheffield Scientific School, and T. B. Osborne, Ph. 

 D., of the Connecticut State Station. 



At a joint session of the sections on chemistry and agriculture but- 

 ter standards, methods of testing milk, and cooperative field experi- 

 ments were discussed. 



In the section on horticulture the following topics were presented : 

 Methods of Note taking in Variety Tests, and Experiments in Crossing 

 Corn, by G. W. McCluer, B. S., of the Illinois Station ; Promising Wild 

 Fruits of North Dakota, by E. B. Waldron of the North Dakota Sta- 

 tion ; Methods of Reporting the Yield of Small Fruits and Other Crops, 

 by E. S. Goff of the Wisconsin College and Station. 



