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The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, T. L. 

 Lyon ; vice presidents, A. G. McCall and C. B. Lipman ; and secretary-treasurer, 

 P. V. Gardon. 



Potato Association of America. — The fourth aunual meeting of this associa- 

 tion was held in Wasliiugtou, D. C, November 9 and 10, 1917. 



The program included addresses by Assistant Secretary Vrooman of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Hon. H. C. Hoover, W. T. Macoun, C. A. Za- 

 vitz, and W. S. Blair, and papers on the following subjects: Feeding Value of 

 Raw, Cooked, Silaged, and Pressed Dried Potatoes for Hogs, by F. G. Ash- 

 brook ; Feeding Value of Silaged and Pressed Dried Potatoes for Dairy Ani- 

 mals, by T. E. Woodward ; The Farm Manufacture of Potato Starch, by H. C. 

 Gore ; The Preparation of Potato Silage, by L. A. Round ; The Dehydration of 

 Potatoes, by L. D. Sweet ; Potato Utilization Work of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 by C. L. Alsberg; Fertilizer Studies on I'otash Hunger of the Potato and Other 

 P'ield Crops, by O. Schreiner ; The Dietary Value of the Potato, by C. F. Lang- 

 worthy ; The Potato Situation and the Department's Work on Potatoes, by L. C. 

 Corbett; Distribution of the Potato Crop, by E. P. Miller; Car Movement of 

 Potatoes, by H. Elliott ; Potato Growing and the Present Fertilizer Situation, 

 by H. G. Bell ; and The Production of High-Grade Seed Potatoes, by D. Dean. 



Committee reports were also submitted upon seed improven>ent and certifi- 

 cation, research, varietal nomenclature and testing, market stand:irds and mar- 

 keting, utilization of surplus stock and culls, transportation, potato contests 

 and exhibitions, crop forecasting, publications, and education. 



Officers were elected for the ensuing year, as follows: President, L. D. Sweet; 

 \ice president, W. T. Macoun ; secretary-treasurer, W. Stuart ; and members 

 at l.'irge of the executive committee. H. G. Bell and H. E. Horton. 



Miscellaneous. — The report of the committee of the Privy Council for Scien- 

 tific and Industrial Research of Great Britain for 1916-17 states that sub- 

 stantial progress has been made for establishing a national re.«^arch association 

 for cotton. The committor has offered a grant of money to the Imperial Com- 

 mis.si(iner of Agriculture in the British We.st Indies, and It is hoped th;it in due 

 course the new as.sociation may take over this work. 



The food production department of Great Britain has established a seed- 

 testing station in London. H. B. Renwich has been appointed director of feeil- 

 ing stuffs nt \l\o ministry of foods to organize the supply and distribution of 

 feeding studs, particularly oil meal. 



Plans are being devised in Great Britain for holding short training courses 

 for soldiers who are available for agricultural work. Particular attention is 

 to be given to the handling of farm machinery, especially tractors and plows. 



A national institute is to be established in Italy to investigate the relations 

 Vietween malaria and agriculture, the cause of the unhealthfulness of malarial 

 districts, and the organization of a campaign against the.«;e causes. 



A chair of the pedagogy- of agriculture has been established at the University 

 of South Carolina. V. E. Rector, principal of the Antioch Industrial School, 

 has been appointed to the position. 



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