played very commonly would be considered "unfair". No objection was, however, raised in the convention by the scientists or others present probably suggested by the advisability at times of giving the calf more rope.

At no time in the history of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments can the Association complain of shabby treatment at the hands of the city entertaining the convention. Every city, every state, and every food department has always exerted itself to the utmost to provide a splendid time for the delegates and their guests. Nevertheless the recent convention in Denver and the first convention in Portland, Oregon, will outshine all others in the variety and elaborateness of the entertainment and in

The Association of Official Agricultural Chemists in convention at the same time and place with the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments, offered a rare chance to contrast the methods and relative interest in the two organizations. When the president of the first association appointed his jumping-jack committees, less than a dozen delegates were present, including the department stenographer, and when anything but the routine reading of papers and discussions were going on at the big conventions, the A. of O. A. C. was deserted, when the hall holding the other convention was always filled and sometimes standing room was at a premium.

No one is greatly interested in the harmony that exists between the fox and the chicken upon which he has fed.

In the heat of the strife for the Presidency, that sterling patriarch of the dairy interests, the honorable Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson, rose, and in seconding the nomination of Mr. Flanders, of New York, for the presidency of this association for the ensuing year, brought out in his characteristic manner that in the early days when dairy interests were the principal object of this association, that Mr. Flanders

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was one of the foremost supporters in the advancement of dairying and the protection of those in that busiThe honorable secretary further called the convention's attention to the fact that this convention had been almost entirely given over to food, and that he was sorry to hear so little regarding the good old cow: that we must not forget that this was a dairy association as well as a food association, and that he is just akeenly interested today in the dairy part of this work as he has always been in the past or he now is in the food part of it. These remarks received great applause and certainly will have a stimulating effect, for the ef

President Emery was considerably confused in his endeavors to untangle the parliamentary wrangles which enlivened the convention. Indeed the situation would have been embarrassing to a man with much more experience in handling deliberative bodies than President Emery, and it is doubtful whether anyone but a Joe Cannon or James Wilson could have mastered the situation. By the way, at one time, after his experience as Speaker of the Iowa House, and in the National House of Representatives, Secretary Wilson was generally conceded next to James G. Blaine to be the best parliamentarian in the country. Doubtless he may be a little rusty in Robert's Rules of Order to-day, not having occasion to make much use of them during the last fifteen years.

Dr. Barnard might by wiring in time secure a proxy from the Philippine Islands if Indiana is too little to adequately support the intensity of his convictions.

The Denver Times, Aug. 26.

B. H. RAWL,

Chief of Dairy Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Who came to hear something about the cow.)

The Feed Bag Brigade of the Bureau of Chemistry were conspicuous by their absence.

In government, organizations, associations, and conventions policies are what count and not jobs, as some would like to have you believe.

The most salient feature of the dairy and food work in Maine seems to be that no effort has as yet been made to enforce the law, and this fact was probably in Director Wood's mind when he, of all the representatives of the different states present, declined to speak on the subject assigned all the commissioners. Direct

or Woods confined his energies strictly to the politics of the convention.

Paul Pierce's organization, the American Association for the Promotion of Purity in Food Products, was delivered a solar plexus blow at the Denver convention.

AIRSHIP RACE AT STATE FAIR.

Alton Road Urges State Board to Provide Special Attraction. Members of the State Board of Agriculture visited. the general offices of the Chicago & Alton Railroad in Chicago, August 27th, and were urged by Mr. Geo. J. Charlton, General Passenger Agent, to provide some great special attraction so that all who took advantage of "The Only Way" low rates to the Fair would more than get their money's worth. The next morning the following appeared in the Chicago Tribune:

"Representatives of the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and Charles A. Coey of Chicago will compete in an airship race during the day, and a night