600 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



lu Saskatchewan last year about 150 agricultural meetings were held under 

 tbe auspices of the agricultural department, and it is expected that this number 

 will be greatly increased the coming year. 



Dr. J. W. Robertson, principal of Macdonald College, has resigned. For the 

 present he will be engaged in a study of agricultural and other conditions in 

 foreign countries, with a view to obtaining information in connection with the 

 conservation of Canada's national resources. 



Agriculture in Cuba. — An estimate is included in the Cuban budget for 1910- 



11 of .$1112.200 for the maintenance of the six agricultural schools authorized for 

 the several provinces by an act passed July 12, 1901). Under other clauses in 

 the budget, $100,000 is to be used for cattle breeding, a like sum for holding an 

 agricultural and industrial exposition, $30,000 for subsidies to private experi- 

 mental farms, $20,000 for the purchase of plants and seeds, and $1,100,000 for 

 jiaying the expenses of transporting immigrant farmers and farm laborers. 



Agriculture in Santo Domingo. — Under a law recently signed by President 

 Caceres. a general board of agriculture and immigration is established in Santo 

 Domingo. This board will have supervision of all schools of agriculture, both 

 public and private. An agricultural laboratory and an experiment station are 

 contemplated, and the more general dissemination of agricultural literature is 

 to be taken up. Another section of the law authorizes the president to import 

 for sale at cost fertilizers, insecticides, and farm implements. 



Agricultural Organization in Brazil. — A bureau of agricultural inspection has 

 been organized in Brazil, which is to make a special study of agricultural condi- 

 tions in that country, with a view to suggesting opportunities for improvement. 

 It will have charge of the work of collecting and disseminating useful informa- 

 tion among the farmers, promoting the introduction of new crops or the extension 

 of those ah-eady under culture, compiling statistics on agriculture and animal 

 husbandry, making crop estimates, and inspecting the agricultural schools and 

 experiment stations. 



For the purpose of carrying out its work, the country will be divided into 



12 districts, with an inspector in charge of each. An expenditure of $300,000 in 

 the northern states has been authorized for the introduction of irrigation and 

 dry farming methods. A special investigation is to be made of the public rubber 

 lands in the Acre Territory, with a view to their development, and the establish- 

 ment of experiment stations for the cultivation and extraction of rubber is 

 authorized. 



Miscellaneous. — Prof. A. Klossovski has recently resigned the editorship of 

 MetcorologhlclLeskoe Ohozryenie (Meteorological Review) and Lyetoplsei Magh- 

 nitno-2lctcorolog}iich€skoi Observatoril Imperatorskagho Novorossiiskagho Unl- 

 rersltata (Annals of the Magnetic-Meteorological Observatory of the Imperial 

 Novo-Russian University). The final numbers to be issued under his direction 

 conta-in an extended survey of his 27 years of pedagogical and scientific activity 

 at the Novo-Russian University in the field of meteorology. 



Miss A. B. Juniper, dean of the school of household science in Macdonald Col- 

 lege since its establishment, has been appointed professor of household science 

 at the Manitoba Agricultural College, and will have charge of the organization 

 of the new department of household science. 



Count Faina has resigned the presidency of the International Institute of 

 Agriculture, and has been succeeded by the Marquis Cappelli. 



It is announced that the fourth annual corn exposition will be held at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, January 30 to February 11. 1911. 



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