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History. The Pringle Herbarium at tlie university, containing nearly 100,000 

 plants from all over the world, remains as u lasting monument to his life work. 



Dr. Pringle will also be remembered as one of the early plant breeders of the 

 country. Among his productions was a beardless wheat bearing his name, 

 which is believed to have been the first variety of this type to become com- 

 mercially successful. He also developed high grade varieties of oats, and gave 

 considerable attention to the improvement of potatoes. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — According to a note in ClticOijo Dairy 

 Produce, A. C. Baer has been appointed to take charge of a new line of work 

 dealing with problems of city milk supply and ice-cream making. Courses of 

 instruction will be offered for the training of students for positions in the city 

 milk trade and ice-cream manufacturing plants, and investigations of some of 

 the unsolved problems will be inaugurated. 



A course in agricultural advertising is being offered in the university in con- 

 nection with the work in agricultural journalism. The course comprises lec- 

 tures on methods of farm advertising and practice in the writing of advertise- 

 ments of live stock, seeds, dairy products, etc. 



The Pure-bred Sire League is being organized by the department of horse 

 breeding, as a voluntary nonincorporated state and national organization for 

 the improvement of farm live stock by the use of pure-bred registered sires. 



According to a note in Science, J. C ^Marquis, instructor in agricultural jour- 

 nalism and agricultural editor, has resigned to accept the editorship of Country 

 Gentleman, and has been succeeded by John Y. Beaty, associate editor of Farm 

 and Home and Orange Judd Farmer. A. J. Rogers, jr., has resigned as in- 

 structor in horticulture in the university and assistant horticulturist in the 

 station to engage in fruit farming in Michigan. 



"Wyoming Board of Farm Commissioners. — Under a law recently enacted by 

 the legislature a board of three farm commissioners is to be appointed by the 

 governor to direct experiments in dry farming. This board may employ a 

 director of experiments and must report December 1, 1912, and biannually 

 thereafter. An appropriation of $5,000 per annum is provided for carying out 

 the act. 



IT. S. Commissioner of Education. — P. P. Claxton, professor of education at 

 the University of Tennessee, has been appointed U. S. Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion to succeed E. E. Brown, who has resigned to accept the presidency of New 

 York University. Prof. Claxton will assume the duties of his new position 

 at the close of the Summer School for the South late in July. 



Additional Experimental Farms in Quebec. — Land has been acquired by the 

 Canadian Government for two experimental farms in Quebec. One of these is 

 at Cap Rouge, near the city of Quebec, with over 300 acres of land and substan- 

 tial farm buildings. The second farm is at Ste. Anne de la Pocaterie in Kamou- 

 raska county and has an area of about 125 acres. 



New Experiment Stations in Spain. — Recent numbers of EI Progreso Agricola 

 y Pecuario announce the establishment of an agricultural experiment station at 

 Burgos and of enologieal stations at Aranda de Duero, Felanitz (Baleares Prov- 

 ince), and Valdepefias. 



Special Training Courses for Employees of the Philippine Bureau of Agricul- 

 ture. — Because of the handicap under which the Philiijpine Bureau of Agricul- 

 ture has labored in having to draw veterinarians from the United States, where 

 rinderpest, surra, and foot-and-mouth diseases do not exist, it has been found 

 necessary to establish special training courses for employees of the bureau, in 

 cooperation with the College of Veterinary Science. These courses deal with 

 the characteristics of Philippine animal diseases, including selected reading on 

 subjects connected with tropical veterinary sanitary science, lectures, and discus- 



