gQQ EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



investigations of the Moditerraneau fruit fly iu the Hawaiian Islands, by E. K. 



'^''TZ\egctable Grou-cr is a ne^Y monthly, published at Chicago. The initial 

 number contains articles by several college and station horticulturists. A 

 column entitled "The Exiwiment Stations" is to contain brief summaries of 

 publications of interest to vegetable and small fruit growers. 



The Chemical World is a monthly journal of chemistry and chemical engineer- 

 ing being published in London under the editorship of W. P. Dreaper. whois 

 also contributing an extended discussion of chemical research and its methods. 

 Eastern Fruit, a i^iwlar monthly journal especially devoted to eastern horti- 

 cultural interests, is being published at Philadelphia. 



The Agri€ultural Record (London) has been reorganized as The Journal of 

 Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture and the Agricultural Record. 

 Miscellaneous.— The Southern Commercial Congress is organizing a com- 

 mission from the various States to visit Europe during tHe summer for a study 

 of cooperative rural finance. The International Institute of Agriculture at 

 Rome is to be one of the institutions visited on the trip. 



In connection with the International Congress of Comparative Pathology, to 

 be held in Paris, October 17 to 23, 1912, a section on plant pathology has been 

 organized under the presidency of L. Matruchot, professor of cryptogamic 

 botany of the Sorbonne. American botanists are invited to attend and to sub- 

 mit papers, the titles of which should be sent to Monsieur D. Brocq-Rousseu, 

 Place Carnot, Nancy, France. 



Plans are under consideration for doubling the present size of the school of 

 agriculture of Cambridge University, in order to cope with the increased work 

 entailed by the proposed assignment to the institution of grants from the 

 Development Fund for research in plant bree<ling and animal nutrition. 



Farvtcr\s Advocate announces that the 1912 session of the Manitoba legisla- 

 ture has separated the College of Agriculture of Manitoba from the University 

 of Manitoba, and given it i)ower to confer its own degrees. 



Another state school of agriculture has been authorized in New York, to be 

 located on Long Island, with an initial appropriation of $50,000. 



The Canadian Farm announces that C. C. James, deputy minister of agricul- 

 ture of Ontario, has been appointed a special commissioner by the Dominion 

 Government to inquire into the question of federal and provincial cooperation 

 in the encouragement of agriculture. 



Hugh G Van Pelt, formerly of the Iowa College, has accepted an editorial 

 iwsition on the staff of KimhalVs Dairy Farmer, and will be succeeded in the 

 field work of the Iowa State Dairy Association by E. S. Estel. 



R N Lyne, director of agriculture in Portuguese East Africa, has been 

 appointed director of the new agricultural department in Ceylon. 



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