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Mr. Kenneth K. MacKenzie of 615 Prospect Street, Maple- 

 wood, New Jersey, was elected to life membership in the club. 



The following resignations were accepted with regret: 



Mr. Charles Greenberg, Miss Ruth N. Walker, Miss 

 Helen A. Simmerman, Miss Elizabeth Kargus and Miss Anna G. 

 Eggerdink. 



The death of Mr. E. G. Arzberger, was also reported. 



Dr. R. P. Wodehouse of the Arlington Chemical Company 

 gave a talk on "Pollen Grain Morphology." He illustrated his 

 talk with lantern slides made from his own careful studies. 



Meeting adjourned at 9:40 p.m. for refreshments. 



Respectfully submitted, 



FoRMAN T. McLean 



Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Tests Reveal Which Oat Varieties 

 Are Most Resistant to Diseases 



As the first step in a program to reduce the annual loss 

 suffered by oat farmers on account of rusts, the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, in cooperation with 65 experiment stations, 

 has completed tests extending over a period of five years to 

 determine varieties resistant to stem rust. Incidently, observa- 

 tions also were made on the resistance of these varieties to crown 

 rust and the smuts of oats. 



An important fact brought out by the tests is that there 

 seems to be no relation between resistance to stem rust and 

 resistance to crown rust. Some of the varieties most resistant to 

 one rust were least resistant to the other. Observations on the 

 smuts, another important group of oat diseases, indicate that 

 there is also no relation between smut resistance and rust re- 

 sistance in the varieties tested. 



A detailed report of the tests has been published by the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Minne- 

 sota Agricultural Experiment Station. The publication is 

 Technical Bulletin 143-T, "Field Studies on the Rust Resist- 

 ance of Oat Varieties." 



