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might become in a real and true sense international, and ronstitnte a link l.ctwL'cn 

 the Department and the farmers. Sneh an organization w ..nld act as a clearing house 

 for the association. As it now is, mdy one meeting is licld cadi year. An agency is 

 needed in the Department to work all the time. Such an agency would be a coop- 

 erating one. It would collei't and publish information along farmers' institute lines, 

 both in this country and abroad, furnish institute workers regularly with literature, 

 advise and assist institute workers by reason of its l)roader outlook, and endeavoi- to 

 establish the work in States where it is not now carried on. Such an organization 

 could send out lecturers to the round-up institutes. AVork along the lines here 

 indicated has already been l)egun in a small way. It is developing along the lines 

 of the Office of Experiment Stations' work and is now l)eing supervised bv tliat 

 Office. 



The subject of agricultural teaching in the pul)lic schools was disc-ussed by Prof. 

 C. C. James and Dr. E. B. Voorhees. Instruction along agricultural lines should lie 

 given teachers in the normal school. This teaching should deal with tlu' science and 

 not the practice of agriculture. The normal school will train teachers in agriculture 

 just as soon as there is a demand for such teachers. Farmers and farmers' organiza- 

 tions should, therefore, create this demand and then see that agriculture is i)laceil on 

 the programme of the rural school. 



Other papers read and discussed at the meeting were Teaching of domestic science 

 in the rural districts in Virginia, by Miss Breed, and IMethods of teaching such sub- 

 jects, by Miss Emma S. Jacobs; Livestock judging in Canada, by (i. C. Creelman; 

 and Farmei-s' institutes by the railroads, by M. T. Richards. 



At the business session of the meeting. Prof. W. C. Latta was chosen president 

 for the ensuing year and J. G. Lee vice-president. G. C. Creelman was reelected 

 secretary-treasurer. It was decided to hold the next meeting in Toronto the last full 

 week in June, 1903. 



The Washington meeting was the largest ever held by the association, ami counted 

 one of the most jirofitable. 



Miscellaneous. — The Summer School of Chemistry and Biology at AVesleyan 

 University opened auspiciously early in July. Thirty-seven persons were enrolled 

 for the course, most of them teachers. They came from four State universities, one 

 medical school, a considerable number of colleges, technical schools, high schools, 

 and other institutions. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department will establish a wilil garden of 

 native shrubs, herl)aceous plants, and annuals on the Monument grounds adjai-ent 

 to the Department. These will be arranged for landscape effect rather than by 

 orders, and, together with a collection of economic plants, which is to be established 

 also, will constitute a modified form of the botanic garden. Prof. Charles F. Wheeler, 

 of the ]Michigan Agricultural College and Experiment Station, has been appointed in 

 the Bureau and will have charge of these economic gardens and collections. In 

 addition to the above, Professor Wheeler will determine the distribution to be made 

 of new kinds and varieties of seeds and plants introduced by the Bureau under the 

 seed appropriation, and will work up some of the reports whic^h have ai'cumulated 

 on the tests of these introduced ])lants at various places in the country. 



The Dairy Division of this Department has recently had made under its super- 

 vision 200,000 lbs. of butter for the Xavy Department. This l)utter is for the officei-s' 

 use and is the year's supply. It was made largely from jiasteurized cream, and was 

 packed in 3-pound cans, without any preservative. The butter was made by a 

 Kansas creamery. Butter similarly put up has kept well for a year and over, some 

 cans recently opened being in good condition. 



E. E. Faville, who for three years i)ast has been superintendent of the National 

 Farm School at Doylestown, Pa., has resigned his positii.m. 



