100 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



A. Petei's discussed tho problems of city millv suiiply. Statistics were given 

 showing the amount of milk used in various cities, and attention was called to 

 the general awakening of the public to the importance of supervision of city 

 milk. Veterinary inspection is needed everywhere, and in all Idealities where 

 it has been introduced good results have followed. 



AV. L. Williams described the surgery of roaring. The surgical treatment for 

 roaring has been fairly well perfected since 1843, but the techniciue has been 

 much improved recently. Different operators have different methods, such as 

 removing the arytenoid cartilage, the vocal cords, or tho proliferating tissue in 

 this region. 



T. Butler presented a brief statement of the present status of tick eradication 

 in the South. The problem is considered a national one. and the interest and 

 support of northern veterinarians were solicited. In North Carolina 11 counties 

 have been freed from ticks. 



S. E. Weber referred to the possible agency of insects in carrying tubercle 

 bacilli and other pathogenic organisms. It was stated that insects may carry 

 tubercle bacilli in human sputum, and the Psocid;e are believed to be particu- 

 larly concerned in this transmission. 



The clinic held on. the last day of the meeting was of unusual interest and 

 included a number of cases of roaring, neurotomy, quittor, dentigerous cyst, and 

 other cases. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, J. Law ; 

 vice-presidents, J. G. Rutherford, W. T. Monsarrat, L. A. Merillat, E. B. Acker- 

 man, and II. .Tensen ; secretary, K. P. Lyman; and treasurer, G. R. White. 



Miscellaneous. — Dr. H. Marshall Ward, F. R. S., professor of botany at Cam- 

 bridge University, died August 2() at the age of 52 years. Dr. Ward was a well- 

 known writer upon diseases of plants, and had given special attention to those 

 affecting timber trees. 



The death is reported of Dr. E. von Freudenreich, director of the Bacteri- 

 ological Laboratory of the Swiss Agricultural Experiment Station, at Llebefeld, 

 near Bern, and widely known for his contributions to dairy bacteriology. His 

 death occurred August 22. 



F. S. Earle, director of the Central Exi)eriment Station of Cuba since its or- 

 ganization, has resigned his position. 



A. J. Pieters, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, has re- 

 signed to engage in commercial seed growing in California. 



J. van Leenhoff, formerly of this Department, has been appointed tobacco 

 expert and chief of the tobacco division of the Transvaal Dejiartment of 

 Agriculture. 



It is announced that an international conference on the selection and intro- 

 duction of useful plants will be held at Paris in the near future. 



The Forest Service of this Department has recently established a laboratory 

 in Boston, Maf'ssachusetts, for the purpose of making investigations and experi- 

 ments in the manufacture of chemical wood pulps. The principal object of the 

 laboratory is (1) to test the pulp-making possibilities of woods other than spruce 

 to see if a substitute can not be found for this wood in paper making, (2) to find 

 other fibers that may have properties ])e(uliarly adapted to special kinds of 

 paper making, and (3) to see if a pulp of marketal)le value can not be obtained 

 from the waste material in sawmill and lumbering operations. 



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