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though the Station of its own accord has done considerable work. It is the desire 

 of those having charge of such work at the College and Station at Columbia, Mo., 

 to have the new laws adequately cover the situation containing the good features of 

 similar laws in other states, and suggestions to that eflfect will be welcomed. 



A reorganization has been effected in the Maryland College Station and the State 

 Horticultural Department in charge of Prof. T. B. Symons, by which C. P. Smith, 

 botany, J. F. Monroe, vegetable culture, L. L. Burrell, small fruits, and B. A\'. 

 Anspon, floriculture and landscape gardening, have been added to the staff for teach- 

 ing and for extension and demonstration work. The inspection and other field work 

 will hereafter be done by men who have received a broader and more thorough 

 training than has been the case in the past. 



The New York State Collections of Insects have been removed to the recently 

 completed and magnificent State Education Building, a thoroughly- modern fireproof 

 structure. This gives the State Entomologist enlarged quarters and much better 

 faciUties, there being an approximate trebling of both office and exliibition areas. 



Mr. C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Chief Entomologist of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, recently visited the Hawaiian Islands, where he remained about a 

 month arranging for an inspection service in connection with the quarantine recent ly 

 estabUshed on account of the Mediterranean fruit fly. He is now in Washington but 

 is planning to visit California during the winter. 



Mr. A. J. Cook, state commissioner of horticulture, of California, has issued a 

 quarantine order, under the approval of Acting Governor A. J. Wallace, against all 

 vegetables, nursery stock, scions, grafts, buds, cuttings, orange seeds, trees, vines, 

 plants and shrubs of all kinds from the states of North Carohna, South Carolina, 

 Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas and other sections known 

 to be affected with Aleyrodes citri (Citrus white fly) or Aleyrodes nubifera (another 

 species of white fly.) 



Early in September the Governor of Kansas called upon Chancellor Strong of th^ 

 University of Kansas, to appoint a research commission to investigate the cause o^ 

 the plague among horses then prevalent in the western half of the state. Prof. S, J- 

 Hunter, entomologist, was placed in charge and associated with him were Dr. W. K- 

 Trimble, pathologist. Dr. A. L. Skoog, neurologist. Prof. N. P. Sherwood, bacteriolo- 

 gist. A complete laboratory was established at Ness City, for experimentation and 

 post mortem studies. The cause of the disease was found to He in the forage, and 

 is apparently associated with moulds and parasitic fungi. Tliis disease is known in 

 veterinarj^ hterature as "Forage Poisoning." A botanical survey of this region by 

 Mr. O. T. Wilson, of the Department of Botany has just been instituted, to determine 

 if possible the specific toxin. 



A convention of the Mosquito Extermination Commissioners of New Jersey was 

 held at Newark, October 23. A law passed at the last session of the Legislature 

 provided for a commission of six members in each county, and there are twelve such 

 coimty commissions in New Jersey. All work is subject to the approval of the 

 Director of the Agricultiual Experiment Station, who is also charged with carrying 

 out the provisions of the state law providing for the drainage of salt marshes. At 

 the meeting addresses were made by Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, Director of the Station, 

 Dr. T. J. Headlee, State Entomologist and Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology at Washington. 



