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work at once, assisted by Mr. T. H. Yun, a native Korean educated in the 

 United States. 



Avondale Forestry Station. — The Journal of the Department of Agriculture 

 and Technical Instruction for Ireland gives an account of the establishment, 

 object, and work of the Avondale Forestrj' Station and Forestry School. The 

 station grounds comprise about 550 acres, including about 100 forest plats of an 

 acre each for the study of trees grown under sylvicultural methods in distinc- 

 tion from arboricultural conditions, a pinetum containing about 100 species, and 

 au arboretum with about 150 species of 40 geneim. The forestry school asso- 

 ciated with the station was opened in the autumn of 1904 for the purpose of 

 training working foresters and woodmen. A syllabus is given of the lectures 

 for its four-years' course. 



A New Cereal Culture Station in Italy.— By an act of June 20 there was 

 established at Rieti an experiment station for the culture of cereals, with the 

 object of improving and increasing the production of wheat and other cereals 

 by means of laboratory and field experiments. 



Investigation of Spike Disease. — According to Indian Forester, the Maharaja 

 of Mysore has announced a reward of 10,000 rupees to anyone who will dis- 

 cover the cause of spike disease among sandal trees and suggest a thorough and 

 effective and, at the same time, a cheap and easily applicable remedy for its 

 eradication. The offer will remain open for three years. Each applicant must 

 forward a report of his investigations, accompanied by microscopic slides, to the 

 secretary of the general and revenue departments, Mysore. The conditions are 

 that the cause of the disease must be definitely and clearly determined, and an 

 effective and cheap remedy prescribed, such as would perceptibly check the 

 spread of the disease within a year. Persons desirous of investigating this 

 subject may obtain from the conservator of forests in Mysore copies of a 

 printed compilation of the more important papers bearing on the subject of the 

 eradication of this disease. 



Miscellaneous. — The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored 

 Race, at Greensboro, N. C, has added a dairy department and a teachers' 

 training department to prepare teachers especially for instruction in agricul- 

 tural and mechanical branches. The college session has been increased by one 

 month and a preparatory course is to be offered. 



The Horticultural College, Swanley, England, has arranged a one-year course 

 in natural history for students who have passed through the ordinary training 

 in gardening and desire additional training in natural-history subjects in order 

 to qualify as teachei's of gardening and nature study. The work will be prac- 

 tical, the first two terms of the course to be devoted to general work in botany, 

 zoology, and geology, and the third term to special subjects. 



It is announced that the next meeting of the American Association of Farm- 

 ers' Institute Workers will be held at Washington, October 23 to 25. 



E. D. Merrill, botanist of the bureau of science in the Philippine Islands and 

 a former employee of this Department, who has been in the islands for the 

 past five years, has returned to this country on leave. 



