100 EXPERIMENT STATTOX HKCORI). 



In the special classes for collej^e and station slocl<, Kansas won tirst on two- 

 year-olds, followed by Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio; and also first on yearlinjis, 

 with Nebraska second. Iowa third, and Minnesota fourth. On calves Missouri 

 won first and third, with Kansas second, and Iowa fourth; and the cliiniipion- 

 ship for a single animal and a pen of five went to Kansas. 



Local Short Courses for Farmers and Teachers in Tennessee. — The 'Nanhvillc 

 Banner of November 27 states that the State Commissioner of Agriculture in 

 Tennessee has inaugurated a system of itinerant short courses for farmers and 

 public school teachers and officers. It is expected that the instruction given 

 will enable teacliers to give elementary instruction in agriculture in their own 

 schools. 



European Horticultural Departments. — According to The Gardeners' Chroniele, 

 an enactment signed by the King of Belgium. November 0, establishes a spe- 

 cial department of horticulture in that country. The councilors in whose hands 

 the work of organizing the department has been placed are Messrs. E.de Meyer, 

 E. Henriouille, and I^. Jooseus. This is believed to be the first definite depart- 

 ment devoted exclusively to the interests of horticulture ever organized. 



By a legal enactment taking effect September 9, a technical commission of 

 horticulture was organized in the French ministry of agriculture. This com- 

 mission is to be comiiosed partl.v of members ex-ofiicio, including leading officials 

 in the ministry of agriculture and other administrative departments of the 

 government, as well as the president of the National Horticultural Society of 

 France and the director of the National Horticultural School of Versailles, 

 and partly of members to be appointed by the minister of agriculture. It is 

 to meet subject to the call of the minister of agriculture and pass upon all 

 questions submitted to it for examination. 



Miscellaneous. — At the recent Dry Farming Congress at Billings, Mont., a reso- 

 lution was adopted urging " that a Weather Bureau expert be detailed to each 

 experiment station for the purpose of investigating soil moisture and tillage, 

 in order that records may be obtained by which precipitation and evaporation 

 may be determined." 



At the recent Dry Farming Congress at Billings. Mont., a resolution was 

 adopted urging " that a Weather Bureau expert be detailed to each experiment 

 station for the purpose of investigating soil moisture and tillage, in order that 

 records may lie obtained b.y which precipitation and evaporation may be 

 determined." 



Dr. Albin Braf, royal imperial minister of agriculture of Austria, has re- 

 signed to become royal imperial privy counsellor, and has been succeeded by 

 Dr. Josef Ritter v. Popp, section chief in the ministry of agriculture. 



W. Batesou, professor of biology at the University of Cambridge, has ac- 

 <;epted the position of director of the newly established .John Innes Horti- 

 <;ultural Institution. 



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