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ticulturists of Gennaiiy, and receives additional aid from tbo State, the Dis- 

 trict roniolocical Society of Plnneber^, and the Chamber of ARrlcnlture of 

 Schleswlij-IIolstein. It Is the tirst elementary horticultural school to be devoted 

 especially to commercial horticulture. The course will extend through two 

 winter terms, from December 1 to March 1, the first yesir's work including soils, 

 drawing, surveying, horticultural plant production with special attention to 

 the nursery industry and pomology, forestry, and chemistry in its relation to 

 fertilizers and plant production, while the second year Includes in addition fer- 

 tilizers, bookkeeping, and plant diseases. 



The German Agricultural Society. — This society is the largest organization of 

 its kind in the world. It has a membership of a^out ir>,(XHJ and has a wide 

 range of activities not only in experimental work and in the dissemination of 

 agricultural information, but in the purchase and inspection of supplies. For 

 example, it has fertilizer, feeding stuffs, and seed departments through which 

 memlvers can purchase their supplies of these articles and have their quality 

 guaraitteetl. A recent report of the society shows that during the year 1907 

 members bought through the society some 373,150 tons of fertilizing materials. 

 Analyses of the feeding stuffs and fertilizers are made by the agricultural ex- 

 l)erimeiit stations free of cost to the members under an arrangement by which 

 the manufacturers pay the stations for the analytical work. During the past 

 year 3,036 analyses of fertilizers were made under this arrangement, of which 

 3,4'JO were found to be up to the guaranteed quality, and 446, or 11.13 per cent, 

 were found to be too low. The largest purchases through the society were of 

 potash salts, 260,000 tons, the next largest of Thomas slag, 74,000 tons, fol- 

 lowed by lime, 23,000 tons, and smaller amounts of superphosphates and super- 

 phosphate mixtures, nitrate of soda, bone meal, and calciuru cyauamid. 



New Journals. — The Philipinne Agricultural Review is a monthly publication 

 which is being issued in both English and Spanish editions by the Bureau of 

 Agriculture for free circulation in the Philippine Islands. It is intended to 

 replace the press bulletins previously issued, and will be nontechnical in scope. 

 The initial number is devoted entirely to the annual report of the Bureau for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, but succeeding numbers will contain a 

 series of articles on various phases of general agriculture. 



Arcliir fiir ZcUforschung is being published at irregular intervals by R. Gold- 

 schmidt, of Miinchen, as a pui"ely scientific journal, devoted to x'esearches on 

 cytology. 



The Indian Forest Department has decided to discontinue its series of forest 

 bulletins and to issue in its stead two new series of publications, Indkiti Forest 

 Memoirs and Indian Forest Reeords. It is stated that the Memoirs are to be 

 strictly technical in scope and will be limited to the publication of complete 

 and important monographs on special subjects, being open for this purpose to 

 all papers having a scientific or economic bearing on Indian forestry. They 

 will be issued at irregular intervals, in quarto size, each issue consisting of one 

 or more papers, and bound in volumes of about 300 pages. The Kecords will 

 be made up of from 60 to 70 pages per part, as occasion demands, and will 

 be devoted to the jjublication of pai»ers giving the results of the investigations 

 of the research department or of others, together with brief notes and obser- 

 vations of current interest. The initial number of the Records consists simply 

 of a paper entitled A Note on the Lac Insect {Tachardia lacca), its Life His- 

 tory, Propagation, and Collection, 



Journal of the American Feat Society is being issued as a quarterly. Various 

 phases of the peat industry in this country are to be taken up, including the 

 drainage of peat lands and the agricultural uses of peat, the latter being 

 assigned to H. D. Huskins, of the Massachusetts Station. 



