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President, Dr. Tait Butler. Raleigh. X. C. ; viee-presideut. J. L. Ellsworth. Bos- 

 ton, Mass. ; secretary-treasurer. John Hamilton, Washington, D. C. ; and the 

 executive committee : The president and the secretary ex-officio ; G. A. Putnam, 

 Toronto. Ontario ; T. L. Calvert. Columbus, Ohio, and A. E. Chamberlain, Brook- 

 ings. S. Dak. 



National Corn Exposition. — The first National Corn Exposition was held in 

 Chicago October 5-19. About 5,000 exhibits of corn were shown, representing 

 nearly every State as well as Canada. Although the attendance was somewhat 

 disappointing, from an educational ix)int of view the exposition was considered 

 extremely successful. An intercollegiate match in corn judging was partici- 

 pated in by teams of students from the Iowa and Kansas colleges, the first prize 

 of .?200 being awarded to the Iowa College. 



During the exposition a National Corn Growers' Association was organized 

 for the puiposes of encouraging the improvement of corn b.v breeding, dissemi- 

 nating information regarding the liest methods of soil culture and farm manage- 

 ment for corn, encouraging the holding of a national corn exposition annually by 

 stimulating interest in corn culture in undevehiped territory, unifying methods 

 and standards of corn judging so far as possible, securing the adoption of uni- 

 form classification for corn exhibits and rules governing exhibits, encouraging 

 the de^'elopment and uses of corn products, and opening up home and foreign 

 markets through education regarding the use of Indian corn and corn products 

 as food for man and beast. 



National Dairy Show. — The National Dairy Show was held in Chicago Octo- 

 ber 10-19. with exhiliits of aliout 000 cattle representing 6 breeds from 13 States 

 and Canada. The exhibits of butter juul of dairy machinery were also especially 

 good. Director M. A. Scovell, of the Kentucky Station, served as judge in the 

 Ayrshire class, and the programme included papers and addresses by E. H. Web- 

 ster and C. E. Gray, of the Dairy JBivisiou of this Department : Oscar Erf of 

 Ohio State University, G. H. Benkendorf of the Wisconsin University and Sta- 

 tion. G. L. :McKay and H. G. Van Pelt of the Iowa College and Station. J. W. 

 I'raser of the Illinois University and Station. T. L. Haecker of the Minnesota 

 University and Station, and H. H. Dean of the Ontario College and Station. 



In connection with the show the second annual meeting of the National Asso- 

 ciation of Dairy Instructors and Investigators was held, with representatives of 

 10 States in attendance. An address was delivered by the president and reports 

 received from conmiittees on the dairy score card, official testing of dairy cows, 

 the relation of the association to the National Dairy Show, courses of instruc- 

 tion, and experimental work in production and manufactui'e. Additional com- 

 mittees were apix)inted on official tests, standards for dairy products, cooperative 

 work, and the formation of a cow test association. 



The former officers were reelected as follows : li. A. Pearson, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, president ; Oscar Erf. of Ohio State University, vice-president, and C. B. 

 Lane, of the Dairy Division, secretary and treasurer. The next meeting is to be 

 held at Cornell University next summer in connection with the Graduate School 

 of Agriculture. 



Agricultural Departments in India. — An account of the work accomplished 

 during 190(5-7 in reorganizing and developing agricultural departments and 

 educational and research institutions in India is published in The AffricuUural 

 Journal of India for .July. It appears that the Imperial Department has en- 

 gaged in training a number of men to take up responsible posts in the different 

 provinces, that the provincial departments have made good progress toward 

 organizing separate departments of agriculture, and that a decided advance 

 has been made in the acquisition of material equipment. 



