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the usual way, which was then thoroughly cooked by steam, ami the silos sealed up 

 airtight. One silo has recently been opened. The experiment is thought to have 

 been entirely successful. The silage is described as sweet, and contains only 0.27 

 per cent of acid. 



Pexxsylxaxia Station. — Thorne M. Carpenter has been appointed assistant chem- 

 ist of the station. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — The death is announced of J. A. Tilling- 

 hast, instructor in agriculture at the college and agriculturist to the station. A small 

 glass house is being built, connected with the new house just completed for experi- 

 ments in the rearing of incubator chicks. It will be used solely to supply green food 

 to the young chicks. 



South Carolina Station. — The experiments in the evaporation of sweet potatoes 

 have been successful, and an exhibit will be made at the Charleston Exposition. 



Tennessee Station. — A hog barn, 100 by 18 ft., is in process of construction on 

 the university farm. It is designed as a breeding and experimental feeding bar^ as 

 well. It will have the usual yards in the rear for exercise, and is so situated that 

 grazing experiments of various kinds can be carried on in a most convenient manner. 

 It is proposed to maintain two or three of the principal pure breeds best adapted to 

 the South. The work in animal husbandry is being extended as fast as possible. 



Texas College and Station. — Chas. H. Alvord, assistant professor of agriculture 

 (dairying and live stock), will Avithdraw from college and station work at the close of 

 the present college year. At a meeting of the board of directors December 9, 1901, 

 Acting President R. H. Whitlock was made president p?'o tern, and treasurer of the 

 college, vice L. L. Foster, deceased. The committee from the board of directors 

 have located the new experiment station at Troup, in Smith County. 



WyOiMing College and Station. — Frank E. Emery, formerly director of the North 

 Carolina Station, has been elected professor of agriculture and horticulture in the 

 college and station, vice Luther Foster, who, as already noted, resigned to become 

 president of the New Mexico College and director of the station. The station is con- 

 tinuing lamb-feeding experiments inaugurated a year ago, and is also carrying on an 

 extensive cooperative sheep-feeding experiment, with 1,900 sheep, at Fort Steele. 



Society of Official Horticultural Inspectors. — The first general meeting of 

 the Society of Official Horticultural Inspectors for the United States and Canada was 

 held in this city November 11 to 13, 1901, with S. A. Forbes as president and H. T. 

 Fernald as secretary. At the majority of these sessions representatives from fifteen 

 States were present. A circular had been issued by the president in which topics 

 were suggested for discussion, and this served as the programme for the meeting. 



With regard to the limits of time within which nurseries may be inspected, it was 

 found impossible to decide upon any definite period for all States, and after consid- 

 erable discussion a resolution was adopted leaving the time of inspection to the dis- 

 cretion of the inspector in each State. It was also resolved that the certificate should 

 not extend beyond the time of the beginning of the breeding period of the San Jose 

 scale for the next year. In case a part of a nursery is affected by a dangerous fungus 

 or insect pest not likely to involve other parts of the_ nursery, it was decided that the 

 certificate should be so worded that stock could be sold after objectionable stock had 

 been treated as suggested by the inspector. It was declared to be the sense of the 

 society that certificates should specify the date of the completion of the inspection, 

 should be worded in an impersonal form, and should not mention specifically the 

 name of any insect or fungus pest. 



Discussion on the acceptance of the certificate of inspection beyond the boundaries 

 of the State showed that it had been the quite general policy of inspectors to accept 

 certificates from State inspectors and from experiment station entomologists from 

 outside States, but no formal expression of opinion on this point was taken. 



