798 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



This offer has just been renewed for :i second i)eriod of ten years, and the chair 

 is henceforth to be designated the " Drapers' Professorship of Agriculture." 

 As previously noted, the Drapers' Company has also offered $25,000 toward 

 buildings and equipment, for which i^lOO.OOO is desired. From other sources 

 !«,S5,()00 has already been pledged. It is also hoped to increase the annual income 

 by $3,000, as the number of students in agriculture is rapidly increasing and 

 additional aid is required. Efforts to establish a department of forestry are 

 under way and a beginning has been made towai'd a forestry museum. 



Rural Education in England. — At a special meeting of the Lincolnshire Chani- 

 Iter of Agriculture resolutions were passed urging that a more decided agricul- 

 tural tone should be given to the teaching in the rural elementary schools, and 

 that a complete and consecutive system of secondary education should be estab- 

 lished in the rural districts. 



The Lincolnshire Farmers" Union recently submitted to all candidates for the 

 county councils in Lincolnshire a series of questions as to their attitude on the 

 introduction of nature study into the rural schools, the keeping of school gar- 

 dens, and the providing of more definite instruction in rural economy. 



A New Experiment Station in the French Kongo. — An order has been issued 

 for the establishment of the Trial Garden of Como at Agonenzork to investigate 

 the culture of cacao and rubber trees. The garden is to be in charge of a sub- 

 inspector of colonial agriculture. :m. Buchet has been designated for this posi- 

 tion and also as director of the Trial Garden at Libreville. 



New England Conference on Rural Progress. — The first conference on rural 

 progress in New England was held at Boston March 8. Its purpose was outlined 

 by President Butterfield, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, with whom 

 the idea originated, as a demonstration of the unity of New England in its 

 interests which make for progress. He urged especially closer cooperation of 

 existing agencies, such as the State boards of agriculture, the agricultural col- 

 leges and experiment stations, the State federations of churches. State depart- 

 ments of education, and the grange. All of these interests were represented at 

 the conference, the speakers, including E. D. Howe, of Massachusetts, and H. O. 

 Iladley and N. J. Bachelder, of New Hampshire, for the grange ; H. J. Wheeler, 

 of the Rhode Island Station ; G. H. Martin, secretary of the Massachusetts State 

 Board of Education ; L. R. Jones, of the Vermont University and Station ; W. D. 

 Hnrd. of the University of Maine; E. T. Hartman, secretary of the Massachu- 

 setts Civic League ; Rev. E. T. Root, field secretary of the Massachusetts Federa- 

 tion of Churches : G. M. Twitchell, of the Maine Farmer, and A. E. Stene, of the 

 Rhode Island College. It was decided not to attempt a permanent organization 

 at that time, but to hold another meeting in the spring of 1008. at which time a 

 committee is to report a detailed plan of organization. 



New Forestry Journal. — We note the establishment of the Quarterly Jourua] 

 of Forestry, under the auspices of the Royal English Arboricultural Society in 

 conjunction with the Irish Forestry Society, and edited by A. C. Forbes. The 

 publication is said to be the result of the rapid growth of the first-named 

 society, together with the increasing interest taken in all matters relating to 

 forestry. The initial number includes the transactions of the Royal English 

 Arboricultural Society, an explanation of the purpose of the Irish Foi-estry 

 Society, current topics and articles, notes on practical forestry, and reviews and 

 abstracts of forestry literature. 



Second International Congress of Agricultural Mechanics. — Official announce- 

 ment is made that this congress will meet as a section of the Eighth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Agriculture, to be held in Vienna May 21-25, 1907. Special 

 attention is to be given to the establishment of uniform international rules for 

 the examination of agricultural machinery, and a report on this subject is to be 



