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time the account of the annual meeting of the association was published. These 

 have just been received from the secretary, Dr. H. W. Wiley. 



The list of referees is as follows: Phosphoric acid, C. B. Williams, Raleigh, N. C. ; 

 nitrogen determination, C. H. Jones, Burlington, Vt. ; separation of nitrogenous bodies, 

 Fj. B. Hart, Geneva, N. Y. (milk and cheese proteids); potash, F. B. Carpenter, 

 Kichinond, Va. ; soils, C. G. Hopkins, Urbana, 111.; dairi/ products, G. E. Patrick, 

 Wasliington, D. C. ; foods and feeding stufs, J. O. LaBach, Lexington, Ky.; food 

 adulteration, W. D. Bigelow, Washington, D. C. ; sugar, L. S. Munson, Washington, 

 D. C; tannin, G. A. Kerr, Damascus, Va. ; insecticides, B. H. Smith, Washington, 

 D. C. ; «.<i/;, R. W. Thatcher, Pullman, Wash.; medicinal plants and drugs, L. F. 

 Kebler, Washington, D. C. 



Following are the associate referees: Phosphoric acid, F. P. Veitch, Washington, 

 D. C. ; nitrogen determination, F. A. Urner, Geneva, N. Y. ; separation of nitrogenous 

 bodies — meat proteids, W. D. Bigelow, Washington, D. C, and vegetable proteids, 

 J. S. Chamberlain, Washington, D. C. ; potash, G. S. Fraps, College Station, Tex.; 

 soils, R. H. Loughridge, Berkeley, Cal.; dairy products, F. W. Woll, Madison, Wis.; 

 foods and feeding stuffs, J. K. Haywood, Washington, D. C. ; food adulteration — colors, 

 W. G. Berry, Appraiser's Office, New York, N. Y.; saccharine products (including 

 confectionery), E. B. Kenrick, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; fruit products, E. M. 

 Chace, Washington, D. C. ; wine, G. E. Colby, Berkeley, Cal. ; beer, H. E. Barnard, 

 Concord, N. H.; distilled Hquors, C. A. Crampton, Washington, D. C. ; vinegar, 

 R. Fischer, Madison, Wis.; flavoring extracts, R. E. Doolittle, Lansing, Mich.; 

 spices, A. L. Winton, New Haven, Conn.; baking powder and baking chemicals, 

 R. 0. Brooks, Trenton, N. J.; meat, M. E. Jaffa, Berkeley, Cal.; fats and oils, L. M. 

 Tolman, Washington, D. C; dairy products, A. E. Leach, Boston, Mass.; cereal 

 l">roducts, A. McGill, Ottawa, Canada; infants and invalids' foods, H. W. Wiley, 

 Washington, D. C. ; vegetables, F. W. Bedford, St. Paul, Minn.; condiments other 

 than spices, J. D. Hird, Washington, D. C. ; cocoa and cocoa products, E. N. Eaton, 

 Chicago, 111.; tea and coffee, H. C. Lythgoe, Boston, Mass.; and preservatives, W. D. 

 Bigelow, Washington, D. C. ; sugar — molasses methods, H. E. Sawyer, Boston, Mass.; 

 special analytical methods, C A. Browne, jr., Audubon Park, New Orleans, La.; 

 tannin, H. C. Reed, Stamford, Conn.; insecticides, S. Avery, Lincoln, Nebr. ; ash, 

 F. T. Shutt, Ottawa, Canada. 



Diversification Farms. — The Department of Agriculture has arranged for conducting 

 during the coming season 30 farms in the Southern States to serve as demonstrations 

 in farm management. These farms will be of from 40 to 50 acres each and are 

 located as follows: Texas, 14; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 3; Alabama, 3; Georgia, 2; 

 South Carolina, 2; Florida, 1. These farms will be located on private farms and 

 will be under the direction of officers of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who will visit 

 them frequently during the season. The Department will furnish the seed and one- 

 half of the fertilizer, and the expense of carrying on the farms will be borne by the 

 owners, who will enter into an agreement to carry on the areas set aside according 

 to plans prescribed by the Bureau of Plant Industry. General farm crops will be 

 grown with reference to demonstrating the practicability and the methods of diversi- 

 fied agriculture. The immediate charge of this will be in the hands of W. J. Spillman, 

 the agrostologist. 



Challenger. — The December-January number of Agriculture, the publication issued 

 by the agricultural students of the University of Nebraska, gives an account of the 

 raising and feeding of Challenger, the champion steer of the International Live Stock 

 Exhibition. Challenger was raised by a farmer in Nebraska, his dam being a Short- 

 horn cow with enough Holstein blood to give her a blue-white color and quite ordi- 

 nary in appearance, while his sire was a registered Hereford bull of unusual individual 

 merit. He was selected by Prof. H. R. Smith, of the department of animal hus- 

 bandry, from a bunch of 2-year-old steers last INIay. At that time he weighed 1,300 

 lbs. and was j)urchased for 5 cts. a jiound, or a total of $65. The breeder, who was 



