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Cambridge School of Agriculture and at the Rothamsted Experiment 

 Station in England. Dr. Tillyard, well known in connection with entomo- 

 logical research in New South Wales, will study insect pests with a view 

 to keeping them under control, and Dr. Kathleen Curtis has ample work 

 before her in connection with the fungus diseases affecting fruit and other 

 crops in the Dominion. i 



The work of the Institute will, in the first instance, be carried out in a 

 fine residence which has been secured for the purpose and fitted up with 

 laboratories, a library and a museum, while the grounds will afford* room 

 for glass-house and plot experiments. For the permanent location of the 

 Institute, a magnificent site, three or four miles from the town, has been 

 secured. 



The Cawthron Institute has been launched under very favourable circum- 

 stances, and it should play an important part in the development of science 

 and industry in this quarter of the world, but many great and significant 

 opportunities await any who may emulate the late Mr. Cawthron's excellent 

 example. 



Fallow or Summer Fallow ? 



The value of a full fallow as against a short or summer fallow was illustrated 

 at Trangie Experiment Farm last season. Certain red soil fallowed in 

 August, 1918, and sown with Federation in 1919 yielded 6 bushels per acre, 

 while Sunset wheat sown on similar land that had only been summer fallowed 

 was a total failure. It appears that the difference between a total failure 

 and a 6bushel crop was due to the difference of a few months in fallowing, 

 yet only 322 inches fell between the 1st August and 31st December, 1918 — in 

 other words, the long fallow only had the opportunity of consei'ving 3^ inches 

 more than the summer fallow — truly the facts in favour of sound methods do 

 multiply. — A. H. MacDougall, Manager, Trangie Experiment Farm. 



A Woman's Movement in Rural Life. 



Canad V is the birthplace of Women's Institutes. Twenty-two years ago a 

 little group of countrywomen in Ontario met to discuss the question of 

 lightening the loneliness of their lot on remote farmsteads. They met at 

 each other's houses at fixed intervals, not only for social entertainment but 

 also for devising means to secui*e the various improvements their homes and 

 the district required. Thus the Women's Institute came into being. 



Very soon the homes and the farms showed what changes could be accom- 

 plished through the efforts of an organised band of intelligent women. The 

 example inspired other women, and before long the institute movement had 

 spread through Canada, and thence into the United States. In 1915 it 

 reached Great Britain, by way of Wales, where . . . started the first 

 Women's Institute in Great Britain. . . . The number has now risen 

 to over 1,600, and will certainly increase, for t^iese centres of industry and 

 recreation are imparting to village life much of the stimulus needed: — 

 Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, London. , 



