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other addresses were delivered by R. H. Rawl, of the Dairy Division of this 

 Departuieut, on Cooperative Demonstration Worli in Dairying in the Southern 

 States ; by Dr. C. A. Gary, of the Alabama Station, on The Relation of 

 Farmers' Institutes to Demonstration Work; by T. B. Parker, of the North 

 Cai-olina State Station, on Field Demonstration Work by State Departmens of 

 Agriculture: by W. R. Dodson, of the lA)uisiana Station, on the Cooperation and 

 Coordination of the Work of State Departments of Agriculture and State Ex- 

 periment Stations: by C. L. Willonghby. of the Georgia Station, on Cooperation" 

 Between the Experiment Stations in the Cotton Frodueing States, and by A. M. 

 Soule, of the Georgia College, on Cooperative Demonstration and Institute Work. 



Considerable discussion followed these papers as to the respective functions 

 of the State departments of agriculture and the colleges and stations in exten- 

 sion work, and a standing committee was appointed to report on the subject at 

 a subsequent meeting. Commissioner J. A. Wilkinson of Alabama discussed 

 new work for departments of agriculture, advocating official soil surveys, work in 

 seed selection, and forest preservation, some of these phases l)eing presented in 

 further detail by J. L. Bryan and C. L. Hill. The Relation of the Manufacturer 

 to the User of Fertilizers was discussed by F. B. Dancy. New Nitrogenous Fer- 

 tilizers by F. B. Carpenter, and the Phosphates of Florida by E. H. Sellards, 

 formerly of the Florida Station. 



At the election of officers. Commissioner Thomas G. Hudson, of Atlanta, Ga., 

 was chosen pi-esident, and Director B. W. Kilgore of the North Cai'olina State 

 Station, secretary. The convention of 1908 will be held at Nashville, Tenn. 



National Drainage Association.- — The first annual congress of this association 

 was held in Baltimore, Md., November 2.5-27. The programme includefl an illus- 

 trated lecture on Salt Marsh Drainage in New Jersey, Direct and Indirect, by 

 J. B. Smith, of the New Jersey Station ; papers on The Status and Present Neetl 

 of Agriculturni Drainage, by C. G. Elliott, chief of the drainage investigations 

 of this Office: The Control of Floods by Farm iNIanagement, by W. J. McGee, of 

 the Bureau of Soils; and Forests in Their Relation to Drainage, by Gifford 

 Pinchot, of the Forest Service. There were also papers and addresses on vari- 

 ous aspects of drainage problems, especially as to the needs of a national 

 drainage law, by Secretary of the Interior Garfield. Attorney-General Bona- 

 parte, Ignited States Senators Flint of California and Newlandsof Nevada, 

 Governor Broward of Florida, and others. Governor Broward was elected 

 president of the association, and the next meeting will be held in Washington 

 in May, at the time of the inland waterways convention. 



Measures before Congress. — Among the bills recently introduced into Congress 

 are the following : To provide from the receipts from forest reserves an annual 

 appropriation of .$2..500 to each college of agriculture and mechanic arts for 

 instruction in forestry, and $2,500 to each experiment station for experiments 

 in forestry ; to provide an appropriation to each agricultural college for Instruc- 

 tion in mining ; to establish mining experiment stations ; to establish engineer- 

 ing experiment stations at agricultural colleges with an annual appropriation of 

 .$."50,000 ^ providing an appropriation to the State normal schools for instruction 

 in agricultvu'e and manual training; to establish the University of the United 

 States; to establish additional experiment stations in South Carolina and Missis- 

 sippi; to establish an experimental wood distillation laboratory; to provide 

 for a soil survey in Hawaii; to provide for grain inspection and standardization: 

 directing the fixing of a standard of cotton classification ; to provide for taking 

 a census of agriculture: to grant the franking privilege to State and Territorial 

 departments of agriculture; to amend the patent laws in the interest of origina- 

 tors of horticultural products; appropriaing $250,000 for the gipsy moth work, 



