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Apiculture in the Canton, China, Christian College. — For the past three 

 years G. W. Groff has been working to inaugurate an agricultural department 

 in connection with the Canton Christian College, his full support having been 

 subscribed annually by the Christian Association of the Pennsylvania State 

 College. He has studied the agricultural conditions and problems near Can- 

 ton and in neighboring Provinces, has started an experimental garden and 

 nursery in the college grounds, and has outlined a plan for the establishment 

 of an agricultural department. 



In his opinion, this department, while a part of the college and under the 

 New York board of trustees, should be a separate school with an advisory 

 board of directors outside of the college. It should offer a four-year course 

 in agriculture for admission to which a secondary school certificate or its 

 equivalent is required. The president of the college has approved this plan 

 and has recommended to the board of trustees that an agricultural assistant 

 be sent as soon as possible and that a directorate be formed in America as 

 suggested, with an advisory board of Chinese and perhaps others in Canton to 

 assist in its promotion. 



County Farm Bureau in New York. — Jefferson County, New York, has ap- 

 propriated $1,000 from county funds in a cooperative agreement with this 

 Department, the State of New York, and the New York Central and Hudson 

 River Railroad, under which a total of about $2,500 per annum will be avail- 

 able for establishing a county farm bureau. An agent will be appointed with 

 an office at the county seat, who will be at the service of farmers of the 

 county in the solution of farm management problems. 



New Journals. — Biochemical BuUctvn is being published quarterly by the 

 Columbia University Biochemical Association, with Walter H. Eddy as editor- 

 in-chief. Its purpose is announced as the promotion of biochemcal research 

 and the extenson of biochemical knowledge. 



The initial number contains, among other data, tributes to the late C. A. 

 Herter and Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, a symposium on the chemistry of the cell, 

 The Tannin-Colloid Complexes in the Fruit of the Persimmon, by F. E. Lloyd, 

 The Relation of Biological Chemistry to Home Economics, by W. J. Gies, 

 Suggestions to Teachers of Biological Chemistry, by J. Rosenbloom and W. J. 

 Gies, and an account of the Proceedings of the Indianapolis Meeting of the 

 Biological Section of the American Chemical Society, by C. L. Alsberg. 



Bulletin d'Horik-ultiire MMitcrraneenne is being published from time to 

 time under the editorship of Georges Poirault, director of the Villa Thuret and 

 professor in the National School of Horticulture at Versailles. It is planned 

 to give special prominence to matters pertaining to the maintenance of botanical 

 gardens, parks, etc., the initial number consisting largely of an article by the 

 editor as to the management of such gardens on the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



The Belgian Ministry of Agriculture and Public Works is publishing Bulletin 

 de VAgriculture et de V Horticulture. Special prominence is given in the 

 initial numbers to the crop reports and similar data from the various districts, 

 as reported by the " agronomes," and to meteorological data. 



Schlesische Monntsclirift filr Ohst-, Garten-, und GcnviiscMii is being pub- 

 lished monthly as the organ of the Horticulturalists' Association of Silesia by 

 the Provincial Chamber of Agriculture, and is devoted to a variety of horti- 

 cultural topics. 



The Cornell Veterinarian is being published semiannually under the auspices 

 of the Alumni Association and Society of Comparative Medicine of the New 

 York State Veterinary College of Cornell University. The number for January, 

 1912, is devoted especially to veterinary education. 



