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theoretical asriculturo which will im-liulc the ehimiistry of the soil, diseases 

 of plants and orchards, and entomology. Additional courses will also lie offered 

 in biology, geology, and botany. 



A Colonial Training Farm in England. — A recent number of Farm Life an- 

 nounces the establishment last September, by a well-known firm of shipping 

 agents in London, of Craig Wood Lodge Colonial Training Farm at Ilorsted 

 Keynes, Sussex County, England, for the imrpose of testing the capacity and 

 fitness of young men wishing to go to the colonies. The farm comprises 20 

 acres and- is said to be well etinipped with live stock, poultry, fruit, kitchen 

 garden, etc. At present there are accommodations for 15 pupils. The in- 

 struction is entirely practical, covering the elements of mixed and dairy 

 farming. The course extends over two months, and if at the end of that time 

 the pupil is found adapted to colonial farming, the firm undertakes to place 

 him with a reliable farmer in Canada or Australia. 



State Laboratories for the Manufacture and Distribution of Hog-Cholera 

 Serum. — The Illinois legislature has appropriated $4 000 for the purchase of at 

 least 40 acres of Ifind. .$20,000 for the erection and equipment of a suitable 

 laboratory, and $0,000 annually for maintenance of what is to be known as the 

 State biological laboratory. This will be under the management of the State 

 board of live stock commissioners. The hog-cholera serum and other biological 

 materials produced in the laboratory are to be distributed free of charge to 

 stock raisers in the State. 



The Missouri legislature has made an appropriation of $10,000 for the devel- 

 opment and distribution of hog-cholera serum in that State. 



New Joiirnals. — Mcdcdrrliugni van dc Rijks Iloogcrc Land-, Tuin- cii Bosch- 

 boHicscJiooI is an illustrated publication which is to be issued at irregular inter- 

 vals by the Royal High School of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Forestry and 

 alhliated institutions, at Wageningen, Netherlands. The initial number con- 

 tains the following articles : The Excretion of Acids by Eoots, by J. II. Aberson ; 

 The Catalase Keactiou in Milk, by J. van Ilaarst; A Report of Investigations 

 Conducted by the Phytopathological Institute During 1907, by J. Ritzema Bos; 

 Report of a Test of Machines for Distributing Chile Saltpeter, by S. Lako ; and 

 " Tulipthieves " and '* Oneleaves," by B. A. Plemper van Balen. 



Annalcs dcs Falsifications is a monthly designed to constitute an interna- 

 tional journal as to the repression of fraud in food and drugs. It is issued 

 under the patronage of the White Cross Society of Geneva, with C. Franche 

 as editor, assisted by a corps of collaborators from the various countries, 

 among them being Drs. Wiley, Bigelow, and Jenkins, and J. Q. Emery from 

 the United States. Each number is to contain original articles, abstracts, notes, 

 accounts of legislation, etc. The princli)al article in the initial number deals 

 with the detection of adulteration in coco and chocolate. 



The Southti-est Montlilif is being published at Pulaski, Va. The initial number 

 is very largely devoted to agricultural topics, the articles including The Problem 

 of the Rural Woman, by Dr. J. P. McConnell, of Emory and Henry College; The 

 New Country School as a Force in the Enrichment of Rural Life, by F. B. 

 Fitzpatrick. principal of the Pulaski schools; A Comparison Between Hood 

 River, Oregon, and Virginia in Apple Culture, by Director S. W. Fletcher, of 

 the Virginia Station ; and The Relation of Live Stock to Successful Agriculture, 

 by Dr. W. J. Quick, of the Virginia College and Station. 



Soutiieni Woodlands, the bimonthly published by the Georgia Forest Asso- 

 ciation, began its third volume in .June under the new name. Forest, Fish and 

 Game. The change was made to emphasize the relation between forest preser- 

 vation and the perpetuation of fish and game, and to bring the work of the 



