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but a further advance can be made by introducing a wider co- 
ordination and cooperation of the efforts of both the scientific 
men and the manufacturers of control devices. It is in this 
general direction of cooperative work that the Plant Protection 
Institute expects to be most active. (News item from the Na- 
tional Research Council.) 
Conference on Fruit Diseases—About sixty-five American 
plant pathologists together with Dr. W. B. Brierly, Rothamsted 
Experimental Station, England; Dr. Et. Foéx, Station de Patho- 
logie Végétale, Paris; Dr. G. Rosatti, representing Italy ; and Dr. 
K. Nakata, Japan, assembled at Staunton, Virginia, August 3-9, 
1920, and travelled up the Shenandoah Valley by automobile on 
an inspection tour and conference on fruit diseases arranged by 
the Advisory Board of American Plant Pathologists, together 
with F. D, Fromme, Va., C. E. Temple, Md., N. J. Giddings, 
Wir Va sand Ck. Orton, Pa: 
The principal points of interest were: spraying and dusting ex- 
periments with apples and peaches, being carried on by the Vir- 
ginia Experiment Station; similar experiments by the West Vir- 
ginia and Maryland and Pennsylvania stations; inspection of the 
experimental packing plant at Inwood, West Virginia. Even- 
ing meetings with the local fruit growers were held in each state, 
at which time local problems were discussed. At the Hagers- 
town, Maryland, meeting the foreign guests of the party gave in- 
teresting accounts of the corresponding pathological problems in 
their respective countries. The party also made a tour of the 
historic battlefields of Antietam and Gettysburg. From Gettys- 
urg a few of the party took an additional day to inspect the co- 
operative experiments on tobacco being conducted by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Much enthusiasm 
was manifested by all present, who were unanimous in declaring 
the trip a pronounced success. Similar trips are to be arranged 
for future years. The following states were represented: New 
York, Pennsylvania, Gennecucae Massachusetts, Delaware, Vir- 
ginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, 
