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one, under present conditions, the uni- 

 versal forage consisting of grass cut 

 fresh every day and sold to supply the 

 need from day to day. Among the 

 forage plants tested by the bureau, 

 teosinte has given great promise, yield- 

 ing enormous crops of green fodder and 

 giving many cuttings. Nowhere in the 

 Philippines is any attempt made to 

 produce hay, although this is thought 

 to be entirely practicable. 



These are only a few of the more 

 prominent lines which the bureau has 

 already entered upon, in addition to its 

 explorations and the publication of 

 technical and popular bulletins, fre- 

 quently in both English and Spanish. 

 While its work has of necessity been 

 quite largely preliminary thus far, it 

 has clearly indicated the great op- 

 portunities which are open to it, and 

 the value which it may be in improving 

 and developing the underlying industry 

 of the archipelago. 



ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. 



The safe return of the British Ant- 

 arctic expedition is announced by cable 

 from New Zealand. It appears that 

 the relief ships sent by the British 



government, the Morning and the 

 Terranova, which left Hobart on De- 

 cember 5, reached the Discovery on 

 January 5. The ice began to break at 

 1 he end of the month, assisted by sys- 

 tematic dynamiting. On February 12 

 a general break-up brought the relief 

 ships to Hut Point, and on February 

 14 two heavy charges of dynamite 

 placed the Discovery in open water. 

 In the succeeding days the heavy gales 

 drove the vessels apart and the Dis- 

 covery was driven ashore, where she 

 remained for eight hours in a critical 

 position before she freed herself. Dur- 

 ing the antarctic summer Captain 

 Scott and his party made two ex- 

 cursions westward over a glacier. They 

 gained the summit on October 11 and 

 crossed the magnetic meridian on Oc- 

 tober 20 in longitude 155% east. Pro- 

 ceeding still westward, the party 

 reached a point 270 miles from the 

 ship in latitude 78, south longitude 

 146% east. The interior of South 

 Victoria is evidently a vast continental 

 plateau stretching continuously up- 

 ward for 9,000 feet. In November 

 another party reached a point 160 

 geographical miles southeast of the 



The Scotia in Scotia Bay. 



