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Association of Agricultural Experiment Stations in Austria. — A preliminary 

 meeting of representatives of the agricultural experiment stations in Austria, 

 -called by Dr. F. W. Dafert with the consent of the Royal Imperial Ministry of 

 Agriculture, was held at the Royal Imperial Agricultural-Chemical Experiment 

 Station, Vienna, September 12. It was resolved to organize an Association of 

 Agi'icultural Experiment Stations in Austria, and a committee on organization 

 was appointed, consisting of Dr. F. W. Dafert, F. Strohmer, Doctor Kornauth, 

 Doctor Bersch, Director Prior, and Ritter von Weinzierl, of Vienna, and Director 

 J. Vanha. of Briinn. The Zeitschrift fi'ir das hindirirtuchaffliche Vcrsuchswesen 

 in Oesterreich was designated as the official publication of the association. 



Farmer's National Congress. — The thirtieth annual session of this organization 

 was held at Lincoln. Nebr., October 6-11. The extended program included 

 addresses of welcome by Governor Shallenberger and by Chaucellor Avery, of 

 the University of Nebraska. 



Among the papers of special interest were Manufacture and Use of Mechan- 

 ical Alcohol, by Dr. H. W. Wiley, of this Department; Domestic Science, by 

 Miss Gertrude Rowan, of the University of Nebraska ; Deterioration of Soils 

 Under Cropping and Method of Conservation, by Dean E, A, Burnett, of the 

 University of Nebraska : The Relation of Conservation to Rural Life, by Prof. 

 ■George E. Condra, president of the State Conservation Commissioners of the 

 United States; Dairying in the I'nited States, by A. L. Haecker, of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska ; Extension Work and Cooperation of Agricultural Colleges, 

 iby Dean Woods, of the University of Minnesota ; and Conservation of Health 

 by Dairy Inspection and Pure Food Regulations, by Dr. George M. Whitaker, 

 •of the Dairy Division of this Department. 



President Edwin E. Sparks, of the Pennsylvania State College, in an address 

 ■entitled Carrying the Message to the People, argued for the teaching of agri- 

 •culture in the public schools and for making the public schools in the country 

 very intensively agricultural. Prof. C. W. Boucher, of Marion Normal College, 

 Indiana, speaking on the Education of the Farmers' Boys and Girls, brought out 

 the desirability of a broader education for the farmers' sons and daughters with 

 ii view to widening their horizon and giving them a more comprehensive view 

 •of life and its responsibilltes. 



The officers of the previous year were reelected. 



Fifth Dry Farming Congress. — Over 1,2(X> delegates, representing 250.000,000 

 acres of arid lands in this country, 400.000,000 acres in Canada, and a total of 

 •about 5,000.000.000 acres throughout the world, assembled for the Fifth Dry 

 Farming Congress at Spokane, Wash., October 3-0. 



A large number of addresses and papers were presented, the consensus of 

 •opinion being that dry farming was passing from the experimental stage and 

 ibecoming an important phase of agricultural development. President J. H. 

 Worst, of the North Dakota College and Station, was chosen president of the 

 ■congress, and Pi'of. Alfred Atkinson, of the Montana College and Station, Dean 

 E. II. Webster, of the Kansas College and Station, and State Connnissioner of 

 Agriculture E. R. Kone, of Texas, vice-presidents. John T. Burns was reelected 

 •executive secretary-treasurer, with headquarters at Colorado Springs, Colo., 

 Tvhich was selected as the place of meeting in 1911. 



Fifth International Dairy Congress. — This organization will next meet at Stock- 

 holm from June 28 to July 1. 1911. It will be organized in two sections, one 

 devoting it.self to questions regarding the production of the milk and the other 

 to those concerning the treatment and utilization of milk. Numerous excur- 

 sions to near-by dairy farms and other points of interest will form a feature 

 ©f the conference. 



