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Virginia, Georgia, Alabiuiia, and South (Carolina. He was also a prolific writer, 

 preparing a large number of bulletins, chiefly iu connection with his exi)eri- 

 ruents with field cro])s, as well as several manuals on general agriculture, 

 sheep, poultry, cattle, and hog raising, and southern horticulture. For many 

 years he was a valued contributor to the leading agricultural journals of the 

 South. 



In the words of his long-time friend and associate, ex-Presidont P. H. Mell, 

 of Clemsou College: "In his death the South has lost a distinguished man, 

 who devoted his energies unselfishly to the upbuilding of his country. The 

 farmers will miss his wise counsels, for they have lost a friend who was 

 deeply concerned in their welfare. His best worlv was done in Georgia, although 

 Alabama and South Carolina can well claim ufLich of the valuable results of 

 his busy life. He was a progi'essive agriculturist, who believed in making the 

 soil produce its best under the most intelligent cultivation by scientific and well 

 directed systems. He at all times taught the farmers that the land should be 

 made to produce all crops possible for home consumption, and they should de- 

 part from the old method of making cotton the one-market crop. He taught 

 by precept and example the value of deep ploughing and thorough cultivation. 

 Some of his practical experiments before the farmers' institutes in the early 

 days on the relationship of the plant roots to the soil were intensely interesting, 

 and of great assistance to the farmer in intelligently understanding the economy 

 of plant growth. His fund of agricultural knowledge and extensive practical 

 experience made him a past grand master in the orchard, the vegetable garden, 

 and in the field. He could make i)lants grow in soils where other men would 

 fail, because he was so familiar with the constitution of the soil and its capa- 

 bilities. 



" The agricultural workers in the experiment stations of the future will 

 miss his contributions to the sciences, but he has left so much iu print the 

 country is greatly enriched by the work of his pen." 



Charles F. Wheeler, an expert in botany in the Bureau of Plant Industry of 

 this Department, died March 5, aged 68 years. Professor Wheeler was gradu- 

 ated from tlie Michigan Agricultural College in 1S91. For about 10 years he 

 served as assistant professor of botany in that institution, and for much of 

 that time he was botanist or consulting botanist for the Michigan Station. 



Dr. O. Bottcher, fi'om 1SS4 to 1900 assistant in the Royal Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station at Mockern, and since 1893 its vice director, died February 

 2, 1910, at the age of 53 years. 



Miscellaneous. — On April 10 an agricultural conference was held at Bryn Mawr 

 College to consider the opportunities open to women for earning a livelihood 

 in general farming, truck gardening, stock raising, poultry raising, fruit-tree 

 nurseries, hothouse floriculture, bee keeping, and landscape gardening. 



A recent issue of Science states that Columbia University has received 

 $15,000 from an anonymous source for agricultural education. 



The fifth National Dairy Show will be held Ocober 14-22, 1910. H. B. Van 

 Norman, of the Pennsylvania College and Station, will continue to serve as 

 secretary and manager. 



B. N. Wale, senior lecturer in agriculture in Southeastern College, has been 

 appointed principal of Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, iu Devonshire. 



Dr. Giovanni Raineri has succeeded F. Cocco-Ortu as Minister of Agriculture, 

 Industry and Commerce of Italy. 



Dr. G. Loporiore has been appointed dii-ector of the agricultural station at 

 Modena, Italy. 



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