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excess cousisting probably of nonnitrogenous substances. lu general, feed is 

 apparently more digestible in small than in large rations. 



Ex]3erimeut Station Eesearch as Seen From Within and Without was dis- 

 cussed by H. J. Wheeler, who advised reaching the urban population by new.s- 

 paper publicity, and giving more attention to cooperative experiments on the 

 farms throughout each State. He also urged the need of more research on the 

 difficult and fundamental problems of agriculture, better training of research 

 men, higher salaries for scientific workers, and a keener sympathy of governing 

 boards and station directors for investigation. 



Team Work in Agricultural Science was the subject of a paper by R. J. H. 

 DeLoach. The speaker presented the claims for better organization of sta- 

 tions, and urged the most complete cooperation consistent with the independence 

 of station departments, and the sympathetic working together of the stations 

 and this Department. 



Notes on the Progress of Economic Entomology were presented by L. O. How- 

 ard. Attention was called to the rapid development of economic entomology in 

 the United States, the widespread cooperation of the Bureau of Entomology with 

 experiment station and foreign entomologists, and the general interest in the 

 federal horticultural quarantine. It was stated that the trend is entomological 

 wox'k is now toward more study of insect biology, and that the distinction be- 

 tween entomology and phytopathology or parasitology should be held in mind. 



The usual joint evening session was held with the American Society of Agron- 

 omy at which the presidential addresses of the two societies were delivered. 

 That of President H. J. Waters, of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science, dealt especially with corn as a feeding stuff, showing some of its defi- 

 ciencies, notably protein, and attempts to find supplements to enable pigs to 

 utilize effectively the nutrients in corn. The address before the American 

 Society of Agronomy, entitled Fundamental Principles in Agronomy, was given 

 by C. V. Piper. This will be noted later, in the report of the meeting of that 

 society. 



Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: President, H. J. Waters, 

 of Kansas; vice president, C. E. Thorne, of Ohio, secretary; L. A. Clinton, of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture; custodian, W. D. Hurd, of Massa- 

 chusetts; and member of the executive committee. David Fairchild, of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers. — The nineteenth annual 

 meeting of this association, at Washington, D. C, November 9-11, 1914, at- 

 tracted an attendance of about 150. The program followed the lines of recent 

 years but special prominence was given to the relations of farmers' institutes 

 to other agencies. 



The presidential address of Edward Van Alstyne, of New York, reviewed 

 the many useful results achieved by the farmers' institutes of the past, drew 

 attention to the fact that the attendance for the past year was by far the largest 

 ever secured, and expressed the belief that the institutes are needed in this 

 country for at least a generation. C. B. Smith, discussing The Relation of 

 Farm Bureaus to Farmers' Institute Work, regarded the farmers' institute as 

 the forerunner of the county bureau but believed that the latter will eventually 

 be so developed as to cover substantially the same ground, and will have the 

 added advantages of all the year operation and of larger resources at its dis- 

 posal. C. H. Tuck, of Cornell University, believed development of the spirit 

 of cooperation among extension agencies would be most effective, and he would 

 federate all agricultural interests with a committee organization. 



Hon. Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, addressed the asso- 

 ciation on the Work of the United States Department of Agriculture for Farm- 



