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complete course is planned to cover a year's work in hiRh school agriculture, 

 and is intended as a preparation for the teaching of agriculture in the elemen- 

 tary and secondary schools. 



South Dakota College and Station. — John S. Cole and Harry G. Skinner, 

 assistants respectively in agronomy and in animal husbandry in the college and 

 station for several years, have resigned, the former to accept a position with 

 this Department in connection with the Dry-Land Agriculture Investigations, 

 and the latter to engage in the State farmers' institute work. Orland E. White 

 has been appointed assistant in botany. 



The station has recently undertaken an experiment in dipping cattle for scab 

 in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department. A 

 former experiment with sheep has been concluded and the results, which it is 

 believed will be of great benefit to sheep men, are soon to be published. 



Anew substation has been established at Eureka, in McPherson County, where 

 a section of land has been donated for the purpose. About 40 acres will be 

 broken this spring for trials in growing different crops on prairie sod, and to 

 ascertain the practicability of disking legumes and cultivated grasses into the 

 sod. State funds are available for the maintenance of the substation. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — A course in agriculture for teachers is 

 announced for the summer session extending from June 22 to July 31 and in 

 charge of W. A. Henry and G. H. Benkendorf. The curriculum will include 

 lectures, field and stable demonstrations, and laboratory work in dairy hus- 

 bandry. 



Plans have been completed for the new animal husbandry building, which will 

 be a fireproof structure of concrete faced with pressed brick with stone trim- 

 mings and slate i-oofing. The dimensions will be 210 by 110 ft., making it one 

 of the largest buildings in the college of agriculture. A special feature will be 

 the horse and cattle judging pavilion, 180 by 68 ft., with a seating capacity of 

 about 2,000. Work is to be begun on the building during the spring. 



Dr. A. S. Alexander has been appointed a member of the committee which 

 will arrange a proper representation at the Ninth International A'eterinary 

 Congress, which is to meet this year at The Hague. 



Wyoming' University and Station. — Director Towar has been appointed 

 temporary president of the university. 



Graduate School of Agriculture. — The prospectus of the Graduate School of 

 Agriculture, which will open its third session at Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., July 6, has recently been issued. The faculty will include a large number 

 of the leading agricultural scientists of the United States and several from 

 Europe and Canada. The registrar is Prof. G. N. Lauman of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, to whom all inquiries regarding the school should be addressed. 



Forestry Notes. — According to a note in Science, the Forest Service of this 

 Department is to cooperate with the University of Idaho in a test of the relative 

 value of Idaho commercial timbers, and with the State Laboratory of Natural 

 History at the University of Illinois in a forest suiwey of that State. 



By a recent decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury Dei)artment the For- 

 est Service is given jurisdiction of the Loquillo National Forest in Porto Kico. 

 This forest, which is the only national forest in the insular possessions, was 

 established in 1903, and embraces nearly 66,000 acres in the northeastern part 

 of the island. M. Rothkugel, of the Forest Service, has been detailed to make 

 a study of the conditions and outline a plan of management. 



In a recent note in Science the opportunities for afforestation in Ireland are 

 discussed. It is stated that few inhabited countries have been so extensively 

 deforested, Altliough 23 per cent of the land is uncultivated, only 1.5 per 



