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sites. A zoolofrist is to he addoi'. to this coniiiiitlce, imd insect jiests will i>e 

 iiK-Iu(k'(l ill the re])ort. 



I'rofessor Fhihault accepted a coiuiuission to prepare a catalogue showing 

 regions of similar climatic conditions as indicative of their iiossihilities in 

 applied hotany. 



Southeastern Iowa Short Course. — Special arrangements have heeii made lor 

 short courses in corn and live-stock judging and domestic science, to he held 

 luider the nianag"nieni (if the Young Men's Christian Association in its new 

 liuilding at Mount Pleasant. Iowa, December 17-22» The Iowa Agricultural 

 College will cooperate with those having the course at Mount Pleasant in 

 charge. The classes in live-stock judging will lie conducted by Professors 

 ('urtiss and liliss. of Ames, in the new pavilion at the fair grounds, and the 

 corn judging will be in charge of Professor Ilolden and assistants. During tlie 

 week lectures will be given by President Storms and Doctor ^IcXeil. of Ames, 

 <_». M. Konmiel. of this D(>pai'tment. and othei's. 



Agricultural Education in Hungary. — Xew regulations fur the Royal Hun- 

 garian Horticultural School at Pudapest provide tliat only applicants 20 years 

 old or more, wlio have finished tlie sixth grade in public schools and have had 

 cue year of ])ractical experience in gardening, can lie admitted. Among tlio 

 technical subjects taught in the course are garden architecture, machines and 

 implements, landscape gardening, garden managcMuent, agricullnre, farm 

 economics, and farm law. 



The agricultural academy at ilagyar-Ovar is so crowded that it is recom- 

 meuding students to go to other agricultural academies in Hungary where tlie 

 qualifications for admission to the Magyar-Ovar Academy will admit Ihem to 

 the second year. 



School for Meadow Culture in Austria. — A meadow culture school was opened 

 ut Eger November 1, v hicli is temporarily in charge of Franz Lindner, director 

 of the agricultural «chool at Eger. 



Forestry at Oxford. — A three-year forestry course is now provided at Oxford. 

 Two years of the course are sjient at the luiiversity and the third year on the 

 Continent. Candidates for the Indian forest service are selected partly by 

 examination held by the civil service commissioners and partly by nimiiuation. 

 ('andidates who liave taken the full course and secure appointments receive 

 about $1,500 the first year, and the grading is such that the final sabiry may 

 i"each .'};10,00(» a year. At the end of twenty-two years Indian forest officers can 

 retire on a full pension, tlie maximum being about .$2,.'')00 per year. 



Butter Competitions. — According to the Journal of the Board of Agriciiltiirr. 

 the department of agriculture for Ireland has been holding a novel form of 

 dairy competition during the past few years. The butter exhibited at such 

 comi)etitions is arrang(Ml for by telegrams dispatched by the department on the 

 morning of the day on which the exliibits are to be held. The competitors are 

 unaware of the dates, and the constant daily attention whicli must accordingly 

 be given the work is one of the principal advantages which accrue from this 

 system. 



Allotments to Agricultural Laborers in Denmark. — The Danish Covernmcnt 

 has recently undertaken an iiupiiry into the results obtained from the act of 

 1800 as amended in 1004. I'nder this act laborers who are able to provide suit- 

 able buildings, stock, ini])lenients, etc., may borrow from the state sums equal to 

 nine-tenths of the mortage value of the property to be obtained. The interest on 

 the loan is 3 per cent, and no principal can be ])aid during the first five years. 

 After that 4 per cent is to be paid on two-fifths of the loan for interest and 

 princiiial, and the remainder of the loan is to be repaid later at the same rate. 



