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work, research into the problems of home economies, improvement of educa- 

 tional methods, and diffusion of information among the masses of our people. 

 Congressman C. R. Davis, of Minnesota, also urged the importance of making 

 available to the great body of our people the technical information regarding 

 the problems of home-making which now seems largely confined to specialists, 

 and discussed the " Davis Bill," now before Congress, particularly in its rela- 

 tion to the development of secondary instruction in home economics. A reso- 

 lution was later adopted by the association indorsing the legislation suggested. 



John Hamilton, Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office, vigorously urged 

 upon the meeting the need of bringing before the women in our rural regions 

 definite and practical suggestions for lightening the monotonous and continuous 

 physical labor which housekeeping means to many of them. Following him, 

 Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel, of Baltimore, put in a plea for aid for the city home- 

 makers, suggesting that well-managed laundries, cook shops, and employment 

 bureaus w'ould do much toward solving household problems. It had been 

 expected that Gifford Pinchot, of the Forest Service of this Department, would 

 speak in reference to the Commission on Country Life and its interest in work 

 iikin to that of the association, but he was unable to be present. 



At the final session a resolution was adopted strongly urging the continuance 

 of the nutrition investigations of this Office. 



Conferences were also held on various phases of household economics, and 

 a lecture on Household Arts was given by A. W. Dow. The active and wide- 

 spread interest manifested in the association is evidenced by the fact that over 

 12.5 delegates from outside of Washington were registered at the meetings and 

 Ihat 800 jiersons have sent in their names for memliership. 



American Society of Animal Nutrition. — As an outgrowth of a conference of 

 teachers and investigators in animal nutrition at the 1908 Graduate School 

 of Agriculture, a meeting w^as held at Chicago, November 28, in connection with 

 the International Live Stock Exposition, with about 30 college and station 

 workers in attendance. An organization was effected, its purpose being defined 

 .•IS " to improve the quality of investigation in animal nutrition, to promote 

 more systematic and better con-elated study of feeding problems, and to 

 facilitate personal intercourse between investigators in this field." In addition 

 to holding an annual meeting, the society purposes taking up actively the con- 

 sideration of methods of investigation and later entering upon cooperative 

 study of important problems of stock feeding. Officers of the new society are 

 announced as follows : President, H. P. Armsby ; vice-president, C. F. Curtiss ; 

 secretary-treasurer, D. H. Otis ; registrar, J. T. Willard ; committee on ex- 

 periments, H. J. Waters, H. W. ilumford, T. L. Haecker. E. B. Forbes, and 

 W. H. Jordan. 



International Live Stock Exposition. — The ninth exposition of the International 

 Live Stock Association, held in Chicago, November 28-December 10, was again 

 a notable success. In spite of the quarantine of several States on account of the 

 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, 20 States, together with Canada, ^Mexico, 

 England, and Belgium, were represented by entries including over 3.000 animals, 

 and in most of the classes the quality showed continued improvement over 

 previous years. 



The influence of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations was quite 

 as strongly in evidence as ever. Their staffs furnished six members of the corps 

 Of .judges, their students were again a prominent and distinctive feature, and 

 their exhibits were distributed through nearly every class of entry, figuring 

 even more largely than in former years in the prize winnings, easily predomi- 

 nating in the fat stock classes and achieving several grand championships, 

 among them the highly coveted championshii) of the single steers, 



