798 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Washington Station. — A siiecial farming denionstration train was run through 

 "Whituiau County on March 5 and 0, with one-hour stops at 14 towns. Over 

 2,80U people visited the train, examined the exhibits, and listened to lectures by 

 members of the station staff on improved methods of farming. A special fruit 

 demonstration train was also sent out over the lines of an electric railway in 

 eastern Washington, March 27-28, witli 30-miuute stops at 20 towns, and an 

 attendance of about 1,1)00 fruit growers. Lectures and demonstrations were 

 given on methods of combating the codling moth and apple scab, and on orchard 

 cultivation. It is believed that this is the lirst fruit demonstration train ever 

 operated, and also the first electric train to be used for demonstration purposes. 

 The results of the trip are regarded as highly satisfactory, and the work is 

 meeting with the hearty approval of the farmers of the State. 



Wisconsin University. — The university extension divisicm is aiding in the 

 organization of clubs among farmers for the study and discussion of topics of 

 the day. Subjects are furnished for discussion, together with outlines of pro- 

 grammes and material for debates. The State board of agriculture, the State 

 bureau of labor and industrial statistics, the State forester, the State free 

 library commission, all dejtartments of the university and station, and the State 

 experiment association are coopei'ating in tlie undertaking. 



Wyoming University and Station. — (iround has been l)roken and work is 

 rai)idly proceeding for the construction of a $2.5,000 woman's building, designed 

 to furnish laboi-atories and class rooms for the domestic science department as 

 well as dormitory accommodations. IMans are being perfected to drain the 320- 

 acre farm belonging to the university, which is now practically useless by reason 

 of the large quantity of seepage water which has impregnated the soil with 

 alkali coming from irrigated land above. 



The station has just received an importation from I']ngland of four Kerry- 

 hill sheep, including one ram and three ewes for use, together with the l."> other 

 breeds now in the possession of the institution, in the sheep and wool investiga- 

 tions. 



I'ress reports announce the retirement of President Fredeilck .M. Tisdei. .1. I). 

 Towar, director of the station, is acting president. 



International Institute of Agriculture. — dleorgt' K. Holmes, chief of the 

 Division of Foreign Markets of the Bureau of Statistics, has been designated as 

 the representative of this Dei.iai'tment at the spring meeting of the Institute at' 

 Rome. 



International Congress for the Repression of Adulteration of Alimentary and 

 Pharmaceutical Products. — Through the initiative of Ihe I'ni versa 1 SiK-iety of 

 the (Jeneva White Cro.^s and the Fourteenth International Congress of Hygiene 

 and Demography, plans have been perfected for the First International Con- 

 gress for the liepression of Adulteration of Alimentary and Pharmaceutical 

 Products, to be held in Ceneva in September, 1008. An exhibition of unadulter- 

 ated products \yill be held in connection with the Congress, the chief business of 

 which will be the formulating of definitions with a view to establishing an inter- 

 national "codex alimentarius." The representative of the Congress in this 

 country is Dr. H. W. Wiley of this Department. 



Pan-American Scientific Congress. — The executive conmiittee of the First 

 I'an-American Scientific Congress a;niounces that this body, which is the suc- 

 cessor of the Latin-American Scientific Congress, will meet at Santiago, Chile, 

 December 1-10. Among the nine sections into which the work of the Congress 

 is to be divided is that of agronomy and zootechny. 



Courses in Agriculture at the University of Chicago. — The Agricultural (Juild 

 of the University of Clii<-"ii»iJ li^« 'j^'t-'n organized to give practical training in 



