300 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



During the five years in whicli tbe act lias been in operation 1.859 allotments 

 were acquired in this way, with loans auiounting to $1,815,000. The great 

 majority of the owners were agricultural da.v laborers, and the total area of 

 their holdings amounted to 14,552 acres, or nearly 8 acres each. The ma.iority 

 of the holders were members of cooperative societies, nine-tenths being members 

 of cooperative dairies, one-third members of bacon-curing societies, and one- 

 fourth members of societies for the cooperative sale of eggs. 



Miscellaneous. — The annual meeting of the New York State Association of 

 School Conmiissioners and Superintendents was held at Cornell University 

 October 3 to 5. Considerable attention was given to a discussion of the best 

 means of adapting rural schools to their environment. The consensus of opinion 

 was that such schools should not teach agriculture separately, but as a part 

 of the general scheme of pedagogy, of which it should be the basic factor. 



Mark Lane Express states that negotiations are now proceeding whereby the 

 Midland Agricultural College of Leicestershire is to be converted into a college 

 of agricultvire of the proposed Nottingham Universit.v. xVuthority will then be 

 c;ranted to confer degrees, which is not now permitted. 



It is learned from the same source that the agricultural department of Leeds 

 University is endeavoring to revive interest in the canning industry. Lectures 

 are being given by a member of its staff on the canning and preserving of fruit 

 in various centers in the vicinity. 



At tlie celebration of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the University 

 of Aberdeen a new block of buildings, costing over $1,000,000, was formally 

 opened by the King. The buildings include extensive class rooms and labora- 

 tories for agriculture. 



The October number of Forestry and lrri<jatiuii states that H. C. Bryant, for 

 some time in charge of the cooperative work of the office of Forest Extension, 

 of the Bureau of Forestry, has recently resigned to assist in organizing the work 

 in connection with the chair of practical forestry and lumbering at the Yale 

 Forest School. This chair was established by subscriptions from leading lumber- 

 men throughout the country. 



J. B. Mowry has been ai)pointed commissioner of forestr.v in Rhode Island. 



J. J. Dearborn, of the Harvard Forestry School, has become assistant to F. W. 

 Rane, State forester of jNIassachusetts. 



The death of B. Chauzit. director of the Departmental Agricultural Labora- 

 tory, at Nimes, and since 1882 departmental professor of agriculture in Gard, 

 is noted in a recent number of Progri'S Agricole ct Viticole. 



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