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.successful until the outbreak ul' llir \U>vv ^^'al■ in IS'.tl), when, uwini,' tu the enlist- 

 ment of many of the students, the enrollment was reduced to about IT. Since 

 the close of the war the numlier of students h;is increased, hut not suifir-iently 

 to warrant keeping ui) the schoul. 



Domestic Training- College in Scotland. — 'I'lie uiienini; oi what is said to he the 

 first Seottisli domestic trainin.i,' (-(ille^^e at 1 )unferndine is noted in ihv Eiticurr for 

 Xovemher. P.onnyton House. Dunferndine, has been leased for the purpose. The 

 instruction will include both outdoor and indoor work. The outdoor training is 

 to embrace gardening, beekeeping, dairy work, and poultry rearing, while that 

 indoors will include cookery, laundering, house and table work, dressmaking, 

 and lumsehold man;igenient. 



Agriculture Introduced at the Technical High School at Prague. — A recent 

 number of the Deutsche Laiulicirtscliafflichr Prcssc states that an agricultural 

 department, offering a four-year course, has been established at the Royal Im- 

 perial Bohemian Technical High School at Prague. Prof. Julius Stoklasa has 

 been elected dean of the department of agriculture, as well as of the depart- 

 ment of " culture-technic." The studies to be taken up this ye.-ir are higlier 

 mathematics, physics and mechanics, organic and inorganic chemistry, anatomy 

 and physiology of i)lants. economic botany, general and economic zoolog.v. min- 

 eralogy and geology, agricidtural bacteriology, general biology, and rural eco- 

 nomics, including iiracticums in the chenncal and plant laboratories. 



Agricultural Work at Birmingham University. — A department of economic 

 zoolog.v has Ix'en oiganized under the direction of W. J-]. Colliuge. Mark Lane 

 Express states that this is to be a " consultative department and bureau of 

 information and experimental work." and that it is the first instance in which 

 a university in Great Britain has offered farmers an opportunity for such free 

 information. 



Agriculture in Great Britain. — A report of a special agricultural couunittee. 

 appointed by the tariff commission to examine the probable effect of a high- 

 tariff system on agriculture, shows some striking changes in agricultural condi- 

 tions in Great I'>ritain. The wheat production, which in 1841-1845 was reported 

 as sutHcient for !)0 per cent of the population, now supplies only lO.fi per cent. 

 The area cultivated to grain crops has decreased 40 per cent in thirty years. 

 Home-fed meats, representing 85 per cent of the total suppl.v thirt.v years ago, 

 now furnish but 55 per cent. On the other hand, dairy produce shows au in- 

 <-rease of 140 per cent, and now forms the chief branch of agriculture in England. 



•'Agriculture in almost every branch shows a great decline, despite a very 

 large increase in the population and a consequent increase in the demands for 

 agricultural produce." This condition of affairs is attributed to a greater 

 relative increase in local and imperial taxation on land, transport ccmditions, 

 and the inability of the board of agriculture to aid the British farmer as his 

 foreign competitors arc ;uded. 



Irrigation in New South Wales. — The ficottish Geograpliical Marfatinc refjorts 

 some particulars of a great irrigation scheme which the New South Wales gov- 

 ernment proposes to carry out in the Murrumbidgee ^'alley and the Lachlan, 

 Xamoi, and Gwydor basins. The first step which it is proposed to undertake is 

 the construction of a dam across the ^Murrumbidgee, thereby forming a reser- 

 voir to contain li times as much water as Sydney Harbor, and but little inferior 

 to the great Nile dam. The full capacity of the reservoir will be 8.*'...'',.S0.8r)4.000 

 cu. ft., and the cost is estimated at about four millicm dollars. The catchwater 

 area is 5.000 scjuare nnles. The water will be brought to the laud to be irri- 

 gated entirely by gravitation, .so that innnping will be unnecessary. 



Miscellaneous. — The board of agricultural studies at Cambridge T'niversity 

 has appointed Major P. G. Craigie. whose resignation as secretar.v of the British 



