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berries, early cherries, stone fruits, and early vegetables as the leading features. 

 A special cherry exhibit on June 22-25 will be confined to German productions. 

 On July 13-15 an international exhibit of early fruits and vegetables will be 

 made, on August 10-12 of early pome and drupaceous fruits, on September 21-24 

 of fall vegetables, and on October Jj-l-l a general exhibit of fruits. 



An Abstract Journal for Tuberculosis. — The literature relating to tuberculosis 

 of man and animals has become so extensive and is published in such a great 

 variety of journals, some of which are mainly devoted to other matters than 

 medicine, that it is almost impossible to obtain abstracts even of the most im- 

 portant articles without consulting a long list of journals. To supply this ap- 

 parent bibliographical deficiency a new abstract journal has been established, 

 Internationales Centralblatt fiir die gesannnte Tuherkulose-Literatur. the object 

 of which is to contain as complete a list of references as possible to the litera- 

 ture in the whole field of tuberculosis. 



Miscellaneous. — It is learned from Nature that Maj. P. G. Craigie, assistant 

 tsecretary of the British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and known to many 

 through his visit to the American stations, has retired. He is succeeded by Mr. 

 Henry Rew. 



Dr. Otto Miiller. of Konigsberg, has been appointed director of the Bacterio- 

 logical Institute of the East Prussian Chamber of Agriculture, which opened 

 October 1, 1006. 



The American Breeders' Association will hold its regular winter meeting at 

 Columbus, Ohio, January 15-18, 1907. The sessions will be held at the uni- 

 versity and board of trade buildings. The association now has an annual 

 membership of over 950, with 42 life members. Its second annual report has 

 just been issued. 



A New England conference on rural progress is to be held in Boston next 

 March, under the auspices of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



A farmers' reading course in practical agriculture for the farmers of South 

 Africa is to be given vmder the supervision of William P. Brooks, director of 

 the Massachusetts Station. The course will be covered in Brooks' Agricul- 

 ture, Vols. I and II, and the student will be guided in his studies by a large 

 syllabus of over 00 pages, containing lesson assignments, heli)ful suggestions, 

 directions for experiments, and over 2,000 questions on the lessons. 



At the opening of the session of the Southeastern Agricultural College at 

 Wye, October 1, Dr. Henry E. Armstrong delivered the inaugural address. A 

 conference of fruit growers was held at the college October 22, with discussions 

 upon methods of planting, fungus diseases, insect attacks, and strawberry cul- 

 ture, by S. U. Pickering, E. C. Salmon, F. V. Theobald, and W. P. Wright. 

 Registration for the conference was in advance. 



The Queensland Department of Agriculture has inaugurated a system 

 whereby young men who find it impractical to attend the Agricultural College 

 at Gatton are given the opportunity of gaining an insight into farming at the 

 Hermitage State Farm, Warwick. 



The department of agriculture of India has begun the publication of a series 

 of memoirs, which deal with scientific subjects relating to agriculture. These 

 memoirs will be published in separate series, designated as Chemical Series, 

 Botanical Series, Entomological Series, etc., and will appear as material is 

 available for publication. Up to July, 190G, three ninnbers had appeared in 

 the Botanical Series — The Haustoria of the Sandalwood, Indian Wheat Rusts, 

 and Fungus Diseases of Sugar Cane in Bengal. In the Chemical Series, one 

 number has been issued on the composition of Indian Rain and Dew, and in the 

 Entomological Series one number, The Bombay Locust 



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