500 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



under the direction of Julio Solano. A new school is also to be established 

 at Puuo. the Peruvian port on Lalie Titicaca, for native boys from 6 to 14 years 

 of age. The instruction will be elementary and practical with the aim of 

 developing mining, agriculture, and other industries in this section. 



In Uruguay the Paysandu agronomic station, established nearly two years 

 ago, is under the direction of Felix Ruppert and includes 1,360 hectares of 

 land, of which 605 are in flax, wheat, oats, potatoes, and maize. A beginning 

 has been made in the cultivation of olives, oranges, peaches, apples, and pears, 

 and a small forest has been started. The station has a dairy and creamery in 

 operation and is well equipped for raising chickens and other domestic fowls. 

 It also possesses 170 milch cows and 700 ewes, and the breeding of horses and 

 sheep is taught. Both theoretical and pi-actical instruction is given. 



The Province of Salta in Argentina has given the subtropical agricultural 

 experiment station at Giiemes in the department of Campo Santo 200 hectares 

 of land for experimental work in the cultivation of citrus fruits. The growing 

 of cotton, tobacco, and tropical fruits is being successfully carried on at the 

 station. The eight practical agricultural schools of Argentina had 239 pupils 

 in 1912 and 305 in 1913. 



Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia. — Principal A. J. Perkins 

 has been appointed to succeed William Lowrie. resigned, as director of agri- 

 culture in South Australia. He will be chief technical adviser to the minister 

 of agriculture and will also be responsible for the general experimental work 

 and management of the government farms throughout the State. W. J. Cole- 

 batch, superintendent of agriculture in the Southeast and manager of the 

 Kybybolite Experiment Farm, has been appointed principal of Roseworthy 

 College. W. J. Spafiford, the lecturer and demonstrator of agriculture and 

 assistant experimentalist at Roseworthy College, has been appointed to the 

 new position of superintendent of agricultural and exi>erimental work and will, 

 under the instructions of the director, supervise the experimental work con- 

 ducted by the department outside the experiment farms. 



Western Australian Farm School. — The Child Emigration Society of England 

 has established a farm school at Pinjarra as an experiment in child emigration. 

 There are 33 boys from England, Scotland, and Wales at the farm, from 7 to 

 12 years of age. Until 14 years of age the boys are subject to the elementary 

 education of the State, after which they receive two or three years of definite 

 agricultural instruction before they are given positions with reputable farmers. 

 Each boy is given a garden plat and is also taught the elements of pruning 

 fruit trees, packing apples, caring for pigs and poultry, and milking cows. All 

 are employed in turn in house duties. The quarterly cost of supervision, cloth- 

 ing, and maintenance of one boy has been $126 a year which it is hoped to 

 reduce to $97. 



Miscellaneous. — Ph. van Tieghem, the well-known French botanist and per- 

 manent secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, died April 28, 1914, in his 

 seventy-fifth year. 



Dr. Jacob Eriksson has resigned the position of chief of the phytopatho- 

 logical experiment station at Stockholm, Sweden. 



