600 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



various States, to their respective stations, as follows: Illiuois first, $500; In- 

 diana second, $300; and Iowa third, $200. These awards are to be used as 

 prizes on live stock or to successful students in judging live stock and grain at 

 the short winter courses. 



Horse Breeding in Japan. — Farpicrs' Advocate and Farm Journal notes the 

 formation of an organization, with headquarters at Tokyo, for the purpose of 

 promoting improvement in the quality of Japanese horses. Half the shares in 

 the company are in the hands of the government, which makes an appropria- 

 tion for that purpose. Private capital promptly oversubscribed its portion of 

 150,000 yen (about $150,000). Importations have been begun and competitions 

 and iniblic demonstrations are to be arranged. 



Agricultural Fraternity. — Farm Students' Revieiv states that the students in 

 the college of agriculture of Ohio State University, with the approval of mem- 

 bers of the agricultural faculty, have established a fraternity. Delta Theta 

 >S if; III a, to stand strictly for advancement in agriculture and extend its^ develop- 

 ment. 



Necrology. — On October 26, 1906, Johann Dzierzon, one of the oldest and most 

 famous investigators in the line of apiculture, died in Silesia at the age of 9G 

 years. In many respects he was the Nestor of bee raisers and suggested many 

 practical devices which are not always associated with his name, among them 

 a separable hive similar to that invented by Laugstroth about the same time. 

 He is chiefly known throughout the world, however, on account of his announce- 

 ment, in 1853, of parthenogenesis in bees. Much controversy has developed 

 around this point in late years, but Dzierzon's theory has received substantial 

 support from the majority of investigators. 



William Warfield, a famous American breeder of Shorthorn cattle, and the 

 author of one of the standard treatises on breeding animals, died recently in 

 his eighty-third year. 



Dr. Walter J. Sykes, for the last 15 years editor of the Analyst, died at West- 

 fields. Grimstead, December 10, 1906, at the age of 04. He was educated in 

 the medical profession but became interested In the chemistry of brewing, to 

 the literature of which he made a number of contributions, notably The Prin- 

 ciples and Practice of Brewing, the second edition of which is now in press. 

 Among his investigations wei'e studies of differentiation of various nitrogen- 

 ous constituents of malt wort, and, together with C. A. Mitchell, of the dias- 

 tatic power of malt. As editor of the Analyst, he was the author of a number 

 of educational papers of value, and took a prominent part in popularizing the 

 work of Hansen on yeasts and Emil Fischer on sugars. 



Miscellaneous. — The opening of the agricultural exposition in Paraguay has 

 again been postponed, aiid will take place March 31. 



Pioneer Mail states that a new government farm wholly for tobacco research 

 is to be opened in Rangpur district of Bengal, one of the most important tobacco- 

 raising areas in India. 



Kcic Builetin announces that Capt. A. T. Gage has been appointed super- 

 intendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens of Calcutta and director of the botan- 

 ical survey of India. 



Sidney Wells, principal of the Battersea Polytechnic, has been appointed 

 director-general of the department of agriculture and technical education for 

 Egypt. This department has been created to develop, organize, and control 

 technical education in Egypt, and will be concerned with the government educa- 

 ti(mal institutions of every kind, and also with the nongovernment technical 

 institutions. 



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