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manual traiuinir, and domestic science; encouragement by the State of courses 

 in agriculture, manual training, and domestic science, in public high schools 

 and academies; evening continuation courses in manufacturing and industrial 

 centers; and permissive legislation for the establishment of separate trade 

 schools. 



New Journals, — The American Review of Tropical Agriculture is being pub- 

 lished monthly as the official organ of the Rubber Planters' Association of 

 Mexico. The late Pehr Olsson-Seffer, Ph. D., has been its editor, with head- 

 quarters at Mexico City, and the board of associate editors has included Prof. 

 C. F. Baker, of Pomona College, the late J. B. Carruthers, of Trinidad, E. B. 

 Copeland, Ph. D., of Manila, R. M. Olsson-Seffer, of Leland Stanford Jr. 

 University, F. E. Lloyd, of the Alabama College and Station, and others. Its 

 object as announced is to disseminate throughout North and South America 

 the latest experiences of science and practice in tropical agriculture in all the 

 various branches. One of the recent numbers contains an account by the 

 editor of rubber and coffee gi'owing in the Orient and in Mexico ; an article on 

 The Growing of Guayule in Relation to the Soil, by J. E. Kirkwood; articles 

 on The Flow of Latex in Rubber Plants and Agricultural Possibilities in 

 Tropical Mexico, by the editor; Causes of Destruction of Agricultural Land 

 in Mexico, by R. I. Olsson-Seffer ; a bibliography of rubber, reviews of current 

 literature, book i-eviews, and miscellaneous notes. 



TTie Agricultural Journal of the Convpanhia de Moratnbique is published 

 quarterly in English and Portuguese, being edited by the Director of Agricul- 

 ture assisted by the staff of the Agricultural Department of Mozambique. It 

 is designed especially as a medium of communication between the dejxirtment 

 and the farmers and planters of the country, to whom it is distributed free of 

 charge. The initial number contains a variety of material, including an article 

 on maize cultivation at M'Zimbiti experimental station, notes on the coconut 

 beetle, official notices, statistical data, etc. 



The student body of the College of Aginculture, Los Banos, P. I., is issuing 

 The Philippine Agriculturist and Forester. It appears monthly during the 

 college year and the initial numbers contain descriptions of the work of the 

 college, general articles designed to improve the agriculture of the islands, 

 abstracts of agricultural literature, etc. 



The Nebraska State Horticultural Society has established Nebraska Horti- 

 culture as its official organ. The initial numbers contain a variety of brief 

 articles including several by members of the staff of the Nebraska University 

 and Station. 



Miscellaneous. — The Cuban government offers a prize of $30,000 to the indi- 

 vidual who discovers the cause, cure, or means of control of the coconut disease 

 that is destroying many of the trees in that country. 



Dr Pehr Olsson-Seffer, formerly instructor in botany in Leland Stanford Jr. 

 University, and recently director of the Tezonapa Botanical Laboratory and 

 botanist of the Mexican Government, was recently killed in Mexico, at the age 

 of 38 years. 



Horace G. Deming of the University of Wisconsin has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of agriculture in the Philippine College of Agriculture. 



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