1000 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



culture and Basketry of Fayl-Billot in tbe departmenls-^jf Haute-Marne. The 

 citizens of Fayl-Billot and the syndicate of basket makers in the region have 

 given the necessary land (22 acres) and $15,440 for the erection of buildings. 

 The department of Haute-Marne is to give $200 and the ministry of commerce 

 and labor $1,351 annually toward running expenses. The faculty will consist 

 of a director and about 6 other instructors, and the course of study will extend 

 over 3 years. Eugene Leroux has been appointed director of the school. 



Schools Gardens in the District of Columbia. — At the last session of Congress 

 an appropriation of $l,00o was made for the pui'pose of continuing and extend- 

 ing the school-garden work v.-hlch has been carried on for a number of years in 

 a cooperative way by the public schools and this Department. Beginning 4 

 years ago with a few gardens on the Department grounds and a little improve- 

 ment work around a single school, the movement has grown until this year 700 

 children have gardens on the Department grounds, 124 school buildings in the 

 District have gardens, and 100,000 packets of seeds have been sold for home 

 gardens. 



Massachusetts Forestry Legislation. — By a series of acts recently passed by 

 the Massachusetts legislature, the salary of the State forester is increased from 

 $2,000 to $3,000 per annum, the appointment by the local authorities, subject to 

 his confirmation, of forest wardens with Increased powers and duties is provided, 

 and more stringent regulations are enacted for the better protection from fire of 

 woodlands adjoining railroads. The limit of annual expenditure for forestry 

 purposes of $5,000 is amended to permit the use of such funds as may be annu- 

 ally appropriated, and $2.,000 may be expended in holding State conventions of 

 the tiro wardens. 



Miscellaneous. — .James A. Wilson, a graduate of the Minnesota School and Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, now assistant professor of agriculture at the Crookston 

 (Minn.) Agricultural High School, will succeed K. C. Davis as principal of the 

 Dunn County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, Menomonie. Wis., 

 at the beginning of the next school year. 



Science notes the resignation of Prof. F. H. Storer, since 1870 professor of 

 agricultural chemistry at Harvard University and dean of Bussey Institution, 

 and his appointment as professor emeritus to date from September 1. 



A recent number of the lUustrierte LaiidtvirtschaftUclie Zeitioig states that 

 Prof. J. Wortmann, of Geisenheim, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Rudolf 

 Aderhold as director of the Imperial Biological Institute for Agriculture and 

 Forestry, at Dahlem. 



Maine Farmer for May 9 and 16 contains an interesting symposium by a large 

 number of agricultural college and experiment station workers on the present 

 demand and outlook for men with agricultural training and education. 



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