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feeding, dairying, fruit growing and marlieting. farm crops, farm machinery, 

 land measurement and leveling, birds, insect pests and plant diseases, and 

 demonstrations in stoclc judging, dairying, farm machinery, silo and ensilage 

 machinery, fruit spraying, etc. 



West Virginia College. — A good-roads school will he opened February 23, 1908, 

 and continued for 4 weeks. The State department of good roads, the State 

 geological survey, and the inspector of highways will cooperate with the uni- 

 versity in conducting this school. 



New Experiment Stations in Mexico. — I'ursuant to an offer of the Mexican 

 federal government to give land for the establishment of an agricultural experi- 

 ment station in the State of Puebla, an estate of 2.470 acres at Xopala, in the 

 district of Zacatlan, has been selected. The location of this station is about 

 60 or 70 miles from the coast in a noi'theasterl.v direction from the City of 

 Mexico, where the climate is moist and hot, and the principal agricultural pro- 

 ductions are vanilla, coffee, cacao, sugar cane, rubber, medicinal and dye plants, 

 sarsaparilla, citrus fruits, etc. 



Petitions ai"e being circulated in San Juan Bautista with the idea of appeal- 

 ing to the department of the interior for cooperation in the establishment of an 

 agricultural experiment station in that State. 



Guam Experiment Station. — The agricultural experiment station organized in 

 Guam in 190.5 has begun the dissemination of information through bulletins for 

 free distribution to residents of the island. Bulletin No. 1 treats of vegetable 

 growing, and No. 2 of means of coml)ating the cocoanut scale. 



Apiculture Stations in Wurttemberg. — Under the leadership of Ilerter a sys- 

 tem of 15 apiculture stations has been established in Wurttemberg for the pur- 

 pose of making accurate daily observations upon the amount of honey gathered 

 by each swarm, the work of the bees, and the weather conditions. These data 

 are tabulated and forwarded to the director at Hohenheim, who collates and pub- 

 lishes them for the benefit of the beekeepers in Wurttemberg. 



New Journals. — The members of the Association for the Advancement of 

 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry for Venezuela have undertaken the publi- 

 cation of a weekly, entitled Rerista de Agriciiltura y Cria. 



The Journal of the Board of Agriculture of British Guiana has been established 

 as a quarterly, with the object of " supplying in a popular form information 

 of an agricultural character suited to the requirements of this colony." 



Forestry Notes. — At the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy, which is con- 

 ducted under the direction of State Forester G. H. Wirt, work has begun on a 

 new Jfl. 5,000 dormitory. The school offers a three-year course consisting of 

 I)ractical work in the summer months on the Mount Alto Reservation and class 

 work during the winter months. Ten students have graduated from the insti- 

 tution and 29 are now enrolled. 



Harvard University has recently received a gift of about 2,000 acres of forest 

 land in central Massachusetts, besides $5,000 for the repair and equipment of 

 buildings. The tract, which is considered one of the best forests in the State, 

 will be utilized for practical work by the forestry school. 



The British Government has acquired a 12,000-acre estate known as Inver- 

 liver, in Argyllshire, Scotland, for the purpose of converting it into a state 

 forest station. The estate is situated on the shores of Loch Awe, in one of 

 the most sparsely populated districts of the Highlands, and is surrounded by 

 mountains and moorland. 



A committee has been appointed to inquire into and report upon the ques- 

 tion of the improvement of forestry in Ireland. Among the topics to receive 

 special attention will be the present provisions for state aid to forestry, the 



