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The Agricultural Research lustitute at I'usa is approaching completion and 

 its laboratories will pi-obably be occupied during the current year. In each 

 province the site for a provincial college and research station has been selected, 

 and in many cases considerable progress has been made in erecting buildings and 

 laying out the land. The plans conteniplate eight provincial colleges and ex- 

 periment stations in addition to the Injperial Ileseardi Institute, besides a lax'ge 

 number of experimental and demonstration farms. There has been delay in 

 inaugurating field experiments at Pusa owing to the necessity of carrying on 

 some uniform crop worli for several seasons to obtain a knowledge of the char- 

 acter of the soil. Departments of chemistry, botany, entomology, and mycology 

 have been organized, and in each of these some preliminary research work has 

 been started. 



Institute for Milling Research. — An institute for milling research was opened 

 July ;!u in tlie Seestrasse. Berlin, adjoining the pre!--ent institutes for research 

 in the sugar and fermentation industries. The institute consists of a main 

 building with administrative offices and laboratories, an experimental granary, 

 wheat and rye mills, and a bakery. The mills are equipped with electrical 

 ix>wer and the most modern machinery throughout, with duplicate plants, eaPh 

 capable of milling 2 tons of grain per day. The bakery and granary are 

 similarly well fitted up. 



A grant of .$1.50,000 from the minister of agriculture was available for the 

 establishment of the institute, besides an annual grant for its maintenance. 

 The institute is to be in charge of the Prussian Chamber of Agriculture, the 

 German Millers' Union, and the Central Bakery Union of Berlin. It will be 

 devoted to practical research and scientific investigations on grain during stor- 

 ing, milling, and baking, experiments in the baking of home-grown and imported 

 grain, other research work for the government, and official and private analyses 

 of grain, feedstuff s, etc. 



Royal Hungarian Agricultural Museum at Budapest. — Three large exposition 

 buildings in Budapest have recently been converted into an agricultural museum, 

 which was opened June 9. This is one of the four large agriculttiral museums, 

 comparing favorably with those at Berlin, Rome, and St. Petersburg. 



New Journals. — The establishment is noted of Southern Woodlands, a bi- 

 monthly published by the Georgia Forest Association, with Alfred Akerman. the 

 State forester, as editor. The initial number contains, besides brief editorial 

 notes, the addresses of Mr. Akerman and Alfred Gaskill of the Forest Service 

 of this Department, at the inauguration of a department of forestry in the 

 University of Georgia. 



Cornell University has discontinued the Junior Xaturalist ilontldy and is 

 issuing the Cornell Rural School Leaflet. An explanation of the change is 

 given in an article by L. H. Bailey, in which it is stated that the College of 

 Agriculture has " always had in view the agricultural aim or application " of 

 nature study, but that it was thought necessary first to prepare the way by 

 encouraging work in the schools which would lead to " nature-sympathy," 

 which "is fundamental to all good farming" and should go before any study 

 of "the specific agricultural phases of the environment." The Cornell Rural 

 Schoiil Leaflet will be published monthly under the editorship of Alice G. 

 McCloskey, with Profs. G. F. Warren and Charles H. Tuck as advisors. The 

 initial number contains, in addition to Director Bailey's article, a paper on 

 Natm-e Study Agriculture, by Miss McCloskey, and suggestions as to etiuipment 

 for teaching elementary agriculture, by Professor Warren. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Department of Agriculture. Bengal, is being 

 published under orders of the government of Bengal. It is stated to be intended 



