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Pittsburg and PI. Skinner of Philadelphia, the latter of whom presented a paper 

 on One Hundred Years of Entomology in the United States of America. 



The second meeting of the congress will be held at Oxford, England, in 1912, 

 with E. B. Poultou as president. 



Fifth National Dairy Show.— The fifth National Daii-y Show, held at the 

 Coliseum Building, Chicago, 111.. October 20-29, 1910, provided a common meet- 

 ing ground for teachers and investigators, practical farmers, users of milk, 

 milk producers, and manufacturers of dairy products. As a means of furnish- 

 ing illustrations for dairy farmers as to the importance of producing clean 

 milk and for enlightening city dwellers as to the proper methods of handling 

 milk and its products in the home, it had considerable educational value. As 

 usual, all the prominent breeds of American dairy cattle were represented, and 

 a demonstration herd was in charge of H. Rabild, of this department. I. C. 

 Weld, also of this department, had charge of the cream and milk exhibit. 

 There was a very large exhibit of machinery and supplies used in different 

 lines of dairy husbandry and in the manufacture of dairy products. 



Some of the novel features of the show were the baby-feeding exhibit, con- 

 ducted by the Chicago Board of Health, showing mothers how to prepare and 

 feed milk to babies, and a cooking-school demonstration, where dairy products 

 were prepared. There were also other demonstrations of the best methods of 

 handling cream and milk on the farm and in the home. A branch of the 

 Chicago city laboratory illustrated methods of handling milk, and the Illinois 

 Food and Dairy Commission showed how the pure-food laws relating to milk 

 were enforced. 



The intercollegiate student contest for judging dairy cattle was participated 

 In by teams from the Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Cornell, and Ohio State 

 universities and from the Iowa and New Hampshire colleges. The highest 

 total score for all breeds was made by the Cornell team, with Missouri second 

 and Nebraska third. An innovation this year was the offering by the Jersey 

 and Holstein breeders' associations of $400 scholarships to the students making 

 the highest scores for their respective breeds, Ivan McKillip, of the University 

 of Nebraska, winning that for Jerseys and T. B. McNath, of the University of 

 Missouri, that for Holsteius. 



In connection with the show meetings of a number of cattle clubs and local 

 daii-y associations were held, besides a number of national organizations. Col- 

 lege and department officers were well represented at these meetings. H. Rabild 

 was elected secretary-treasurer of the American Dairy Farmers' Association, 

 and Dean J. L. Hills, of the University of Vermont, W. J. Eraser, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, and L. S. Merrill, of the University of Maine, members of the 

 board of directors. B. D. White, of this deparjtment, was elected secretary of 

 the International Milk Dealers' Association. The National Dairy Show itself is 

 held under the auspices of the National Dairy Show Association, of which H. E. 

 Van Norman, of the Pennsylvania College, is secretary and manager. 



Official Dairy Instructors' Association.— The fifth annual conference of the 

 Official Dairy Instructors' Association was held in connection with the National 

 Dairy Show, Chicago, 111., October 24 and 25, 1910. The principal papers read 

 were on Future Work of the Association, by C. H. Eckles. of Missouri, president 

 of the association ; What Can the Agricultural College Do to Assist the Farmers 

 in Planning Sanitary Barns and Buildings? by O. Erf, of Ohio; Organization 

 of Breeding Centers, by A. C. Anderson, of Michigan; and Training Men for 

 College and Experiment Station Work, by W. A. Stocking, jr., of Cornell 

 University. In these papers and in the reports of various committees the need 

 was emphasized for better trained teachers and investigators in dairymg, and 

 for efficient extension workers among the dairy farmers. 



