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beiiii; largely increased. Larger bulletins, giving full details of experimental 

 data, will still be issued for distrilmtion to other station workers and to inter- 

 ested parties who may request them. 



A four years' investigation of methods of combating the codling moth has just 

 been successfully completed, with the I'esult that in 4 large orchards, located in 

 different sections of this State, aggregating 80 acres of trees, an average of 99.G 

 per ceut of fruit free from worms was obtained this year. 



A wing of a new veterinary building to be used jointly by the college and 

 station is in process of erection. The contracts have been let for a new farm 

 baru to cost .$7,000, on which work will begin at once. The new recitation 

 building to cost .$12.5.000, the library and assembly hall to cost $1.3.5,000, and the 

 domestic science building to cost $'25,000. provided for the college by the last 

 legislature, are now in process of erection. 



A series of traveling dairy schools is to be conducted by the extension bureau 

 of the college, work being carried on for 10 days in each locality visited. 



West Virginia University and Station. — At the recent meeting of the State 

 Board of Trade at Elkins. Director J. II. Stewart presented a report for the 

 committee on agriculture on the agricultural conditions and needs of the State, 

 station is in process of erection. The contracts have been let for 'a ne\\ farm 

 President D. B. Purintou and D. W. Working were also among the speakers. 

 T. C. Johnson, assistant professor of horticulture and botany, has resigned to 

 accept the management of the ^"irginia Truck Experiment Station at Norfolk. 

 This station was established the past season for the purpose of studying the 

 trucking industry. , It is maintained from funds of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, the local community providing the land and eciuipment. 



Wisconsin University- — L. E. Reber, dean of the school of engineering of the 

 Pennsylvania College, has been elected director of extension work. This will 

 consist of lectures and correspondence for all courses of study in the university, 

 for which university credits toward graduation will be allowed, subject to 

 a regulation prescribing a 2-year miniunmi of resident study at the luiiversity. 



Loui.se .Johns has been appointed instructor in soils, and J. F. Reubensaal in- 

 structor in pasteurizing. 



Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. — The twenty-fourth annual con- 

 vention of this association was held at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va., 

 October 9-11, with about 100 delegates and visitors in attendance. 



The presidential address l)y .J. P. Street, of the Connecticut State Station, 

 dealt especiiUly with suggestions for the improvement of the efficiency of the 

 work of the association^ Attention was directed to some of the iinsolved 

 problems confronting the association, such as the question of the availability 

 of potash in various forms and of basic slag, the provision of additional methods 

 in the analysis of food and drugs, and the need for further differentiation of the 

 constituents of the nitrogen-fi'ee extract of feeding stuffs. As a means of 

 securing greater opportunity for the discussion of papers, a radical , change in 

 the meetings was suggested and later adopted. In the future one day of the 

 convention is to be devoted entirely to the reading of papers and their 

 discussion, the convention being divided for this purpose into three sections 

 covering the same subjects as the present committees on recommendations. All 

 pajiers to be read in these sectional meetings are to be referretl in advance 

 to the proper committee with full power to I'eject them or to assign i)laces for 

 them in the programme. 



A second recommendation of the president suggested the appointment of a 

 permanent committee on methods as a means of securing greater uniformity 

 in the form of expression and arrangement from year to year. The association 

 flecided to establish such a committee on recommendations, to consist of 9 



