1916] NOTES. 799 



Washington College. — D. S. Troy, of Chimacum, for 12 years a member of 

 the board of regents and a prominent dairyman and Jersey breeder of the 

 State, was killed August 18 in an automobile accident. J. P. Fairbanks, a 

 1916 graduate of the Nebraska University, has been appointed instructor in 

 agricultural engineering. 



Tenth National Dairy Show. — The first New England meeting of this show 

 was held at Springfield, Mass., October 12-21, on the grounds of the Eastern 

 States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition. All previous records for at- 

 tendance, exhibits, and profits are said to have been broken. Nearly 1,000 

 entries of dairy stock were on exhibition and the attendance is estimated as 

 averaging close to 30,000 per day. 



Much prominence was given to educational features at the show. The U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture gave special attention to its extension work among 

 boys and girls, with several thousand exhibits of their work and many demon- 

 strations by boys and girls illustrating methods in canning, bread making, 

 dairying, selection of seed corn and potatoes, gardening, treatment of plant 

 diseases, etc. A working dairy was also in operation by the Department. 



The agricultural colleges of the vicinity cooperated in an eductional and 

 agricultural display, each college concentrating its efforts mainly on some par- 

 ticular phase of the work. Thus Connecticut displayed a collection of forage 

 crops, grasses, and root crops ; Vermont depicted work in animal breeding ; 

 New Hampshire, farm management and accounts ; Cornell, methods of teaching 

 dairying ; and Massachusetts, dairy manufactures and the care and handling of 

 milk in the home. 



The intercollegiate stock judging contest was participated in by eighteen 

 institutions, many being represented for the first time. The highest rating 

 for all breeds was attained by the University of Nebraska, with New Hamp- 

 shire first on Ayrshires, Kansas on Guernseys, Massachusetts on Jerseys, and 

 Nebraska on Holstein-Friesians. 



There was also an intercollegiate butter-judging contest, arranged for the 

 first time. In this contest, nine institutions were represented, first place being 

 awarded to the Pennsylvania College. 



Meetings of a large number of breed associations and other organizations in- 

 terested in dairying were held during the show, that of the Official Dairy In- 

 Btructors Association being noted below. 



OflS-cial Dairy Instructors' Association. — This association met at Spring- 

 field, Mass., October 16-17, in connection with the National Dairy Show. 



The presidential address was given by W. A. Stocking, jr., of Cornell Univer- 

 sity. Prof. Stocking emphasized, among other things, the need of higher stand- 

 ards and better preparation for men engaged in dairy work. Somewhat similar 

 views were subsequently expressed at the annual banquet of the association by 

 Dean C. E. Marshall of the Graduate School of the Massachusetts College, who 

 urged that students be more broadly educated before being trained as special- 

 ists. 



H. E. Rabild, of the Dairy Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 for the committee on methods of conducting student dairy cattle judging contests, 

 gave a review of these contests showing the post graduate work and subsequent 

 occupation of the successful contestants. The association voted to allow 

 students who have participated in not more than one interstate judging con- 

 test to be eligible for the students' national contest, and to eliminate secondary 

 schools from the contests except that, where there is no representation from the 

 agricultural college of a State, students with certain qualifications from sec- 

 ondary schools directly under the supervision of the college may be admitted. 



