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in iSeptembei' practically destroyed one or two of the more important feeding experi- 

 ments contemplated for the fall and winter. 



Utah Statiox. — W. D. Beers, B. S., has been appointed assistant in irrigation 

 engineering. J. A. Wright, secretary of the State board of horticulture, has been 

 placed in charge of the horticultural work of the station, vice C. P. Close, who, as 

 noted above, has gone to the Delaware College and Station. Mr. Wright has had 

 charge of the Southern Utah Experiment Station at St. George. This station was 

 established by the State legislature two years ago, and an appropriation of $6,000 

 made for its maintenance for the biennial term. It is under the control of the State 

 board of horticulture. It has a tract of about 40 acres of land and a house for the 

 foreman. The purpose is to devote it quite largely to the study af problems in fruit 

 culture. 



Vermoxt Station. — E. S. Gregg has been appointed dairyman of the station, vice 

 G. W. Strong. 



West Yirgixia University and Station. — K. C. Davis, Ph. D. , a graduate of Kansas 

 Agricultural College and Cornell University, and instructor in botany in the Minne- 

 sota State Normal School, has been elected professor of horticulture in the university 

 and horticulturist of the station, vice L. C. Corbett, who has become horticulturist 

 in this Department in charge of the Arlington experimental farm. 



Wisconsin University and Station.— F. H. King, in charge of the department of 

 agricultural physics of the university^ has resigned to assume charge of the work in 

 soil climatology in the Bureau of Soils of this Department. A. R. Whitson, for some 

 time past assistant professor in agricultural physics, has been placed in charge of the 

 department vacated by Professor King. E. G. Hastings, assistant bacteriologist of 

 the station, has been granted leave of absence for a year's study in Europe, and John 

 F. Nicholson has been appointed in his place. 



Meeting of the American Pomologic.al Society. — The thirty-seventh biennial 

 meeting of this society was held in Buffalo September 12 and 13, 1901. There were 

 present about 250 delegates, 174 of whom were accredited. These represented 30 

 States, including Ontario. The exhibits of the society were large and of high quality. 

 Among these was an exhibit of grapes, apples, pears, peaches, and muskmelons, part 

 of which were grown under glass and against walls by a French organization of com- 

 mercial growers (Syndicat Central des Primeuristes Franfaise). This was made in 

 the nature of a return for the American exhibit in Paris. The fruit was eleven days 

 in transit and much of it was spoiled, particularly the melons and the thin-skinned 

 grapes. 



The committee on aAvards gave out in all 1(3 silver and 10 bronze Wilder medals, 2 

 silver and 2 bronze medals being awarded the French exhibitors. Tha medals were 

 not given out as awards for competitive exhiliits, Ixit rather as awards for exhibits of 

 superior merit. 



President C'harles L. Watrouse, Secretary W. A. Taylor, and Treasurer L. R. Taft 

 Avere retained as officers of the association. 



Following the president's address, in which the i^rogress in pomology for the past 

 half century was reviewed, W. T. Macoun discussed the subject of orchard renovation 

 in the fruit districts of Ontario. At Ottawa drought is not feared, and apple growers 

 keep their orchards in sod and have good success. The experimental orchard at 

 Ottaw-a is located on sandy land with a cold subsoil not well drained. Red clover is 

 the cover crop used. It is cut from four to six times in a season, each time just before 

 the blossoms ajjpear, and left to lie on the ground. The crop is believed to evaporate 

 a large amount of moisture from the soil, thus aerating it and making it drier and 

 warmer and adding a large amount of humusto it. The oyster-shell bark louse ia 

 contrf)lled by spraying the tree with a lime wash made in the proportion of 1 to 2 

 pounds of slacked lime to a gallon of water and strained. 



