1100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



BoUiiin do Instituio Afjrotwinico has been establislied by the director of the 

 Agroiiouiique Institute of Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the direction of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works, as a monthly record of the 

 work of the institute, together with other data. The initial number includes 

 an account of its work during October and November, 1907, articles on the 

 value of chemical analysis of soils and on lime nitrogen, an agricultural calen- 

 dar, and a meteorological summary for the year. 



Rcvista do Mtiscu Municipal de Igunpc is being issued by the Municipal 

 Chamber of Iguape, at Sao Paulo, Brazil. The initial number includes articles 

 on the conditions and resources of Sao Paulo, with data as to the agricultural 

 products, fauna, flora, and minerals, meteorological observations at Iguape, etc. 



A monthly. The Jewish Farmer, is being published in the Yiddish language 

 by the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society for the special use of 

 Jewish immigrants. 



Beginning with volume 18, Zeitschrift fiir Pfhiii.zciilcnnikheitcit has begun the 

 issuing of a sui)plement known as Interiuitioualer phifiopatJiolof/ischcr Dicnst. 

 This publication will be devoted to the more practical accounts of investiga- 

 tions of plant diseases and means for their control, while the more technical 

 papers will be printed as formerly in Zeitschrift fiir Pfianzcnkrankheiten. 



Revue Pratique des Ahattoirs et de Vlnspection des Viandes et Comestibles 

 is a monthly devoted to the construction and operation of abattoirs and cold 

 storage plants, the legal and sanitary iihases of foods and food inspection, the 

 production of dressed beef and pork, and the utilization of the by-products. 



Necrology. — Pierre Jacques Antoine Bechamp died April 1.5, aged 92 years. 

 His work I'anged over nearly every department of chemistry, but was especially 

 dii'ected toward biological chemistry, and uotably fermentation. His chief 

 works include Microzymes et microbes, origin des ferments (1866), and Les 

 Microzymas dans leur rapports avec Theterogenie, I'histogenie, la physiologie 

 et la pathologie (1SS3). 



A recent number of Deutsche Landicirtschaftlichc Prcsse notes the death of 

 A. Wulbling at Berlin, May 9, in his sixty-eighth year. He was active as an 

 officer of the German Agricultural Society from its beginning in 1885, and as 

 an associate of Eyth's was instrumental in bringing about its present organi- 

 zation. Since 1896 he had been the general business manager of the society. 



Miscellaneous. — Cornell Countri/man for May contains a symposium on agri- 

 cultural investigation, with papers as follows: Agricultural Investigation 

 and the Adams Act, E. W. Allen ; Expei'iment and Research, L. II. Bailey ; He- 

 search Under the Adams Act, H. J. Webber; What is IlesearchV T. F. Hunt. 



The legislature of West Virginia has passed a law requiring elementary agri-* 

 culture to be taught in the public schools. 



Charles E. Chambliss, State entomologist of South Carolina, has accepted a 

 position as expert in charge of rice investigations of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try of this Department. 



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