598 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



urging upon Congress, State legislatures, sportsmen's societies, and private 

 parties tlie preservation of the American bison, various species of deer, moun- 

 tain slieep, arctic foxes, grouse, pheasants, quail, and other mammals and birds, 

 and the desirability of experiments to determine their wide use on lands not 

 especially suited to domestic species, and also their value in the foundation of 

 hybrid animals designed for wild and semidomestic conditions; (3) author- 

 izing the secretary, on vote of the council, to offer reduced clubbing rates on 

 annual dues to clubs, societies, and associations, and (4) authorizing the council 

 to establish a magazine under the auspices, and as the property, of the asso- 

 ciation when in its judgment suitable financial resources are available. 



The retiring olEcers were reelected, except that H. J. Webber was made 

 chairman of the plant section, vice Charles W. Ward, who succeeded L. H. 

 Kerrick, deceased, as vice-president. 



Tri-State Grain and Stock Growers' Association. — The annual convention of 

 this association was held at Fargo, N. Dak., January 14-17, and was attended 

 by nearly 1,200 farmers from North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota. 

 Morning, afternoon, and evening sessions were held each day and were uni- 

 formly well attended. The first two days were given up largely to live-stock 

 interests, the evening of the second day and two sessions of the third day to 

 horticulture and forestry, the evening of the third day and two sessions of 

 the fourth day to cereals and forage crops, and the evening of the fourth day 

 to agricultural education. D. J. Crosby, of this Office, spoke in the afternoon 

 of the final day on The Feasibility of Teaching Elementary Agriculture in the 

 Public Schools, and in the evening gave an illustrated lecture on How Agri- 

 culture is Taught in the Public Schools. J. H. Worst was reelected president 

 and Colonel P>enton secretary-treasurer. * 



Central Zootechnical Station of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. — In a recent 

 number of Annales (le Geinbloiiv H. Raquet gives an account of the establish- 

 ment of the Central Zootechnical Station at Sao Paulo in 190G, for tlie pur- 

 pose of making acclimatization exr)eriments with different breeds of animals 

 from foreign countries, cultural experiments with forage plants in the study of 

 animal nutrition, instructing breeders in rational breeding methods, iwpular- 

 izing modern dairy methods, training competent farriers, and disseminating 

 practical knowledge concerning the training and management of draft animals 

 and the improvement of poultry. 



The equipment of the station includes herds of horses and cattle and an ex- 

 perimental garden of about 495 acres for the cultivation of forage plants. The 

 personnel of the station engaged in the work of instruction includes the director 

 and assistant director, professors of dairying, zootechny and hygiene, and far- 

 riery, foremen of cultural experiments, dairying, stables, sheepfolds, and pig- 

 pens, and a farrier. The instruction is divided as follows: (1) Dairy school, 

 (2) zootechnical school, and (3) farriery school, each offering a six months' 

 course, the first three months being devoted to theoretical instruction and the 

 remaining three months to practical work. Descriptions are given of the 

 schools, together with their programmes of studies. Annual exhibitions are held 

 at the station at which lectures and practical demonstrations are given. 



Agricultural Education. — Illinois College, Jacksonville, 111., has recently re- 

 ceived a bequest from the late Mrs. Phoebe G. Strawn of $20,000 for instruc- 

 tion in agriculture. The college will inaugurate this work during the present 

 year by offering courses in soil fertility and fertilizers, soil physics, agricul- 

 tural botany, and agricultural zoology. This work will be supplemented by oc- 

 casional lectures by experts in agriculture. Dean Davenport, of the college of 

 agriculture of the University of Illinois, gave the first lecture on The Relation 

 of Agriculture to a System of Universal Education. C. G. Hopkins and F. H. 

 Rankin will also represent the college of agriculture in the lecture course, and 



