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consistent with its preservation." As a mark of its intcrfst in this matter the 

 society voted that a copy of Mr. Endicott's paper should be sent to each of tlie horti- 

 cultural societies aud agricultural experiuicut stations in the country. 



Michigan College and Station. — P. M. TIarwood, M. 8., has het-u appointed pro- 

 fessor of agriculture in the college and agriculf iirist to the station; F. B. Muniford, 

 B. S., has been appointed assistant in agriculture; and K. J. Coryell, B. S., assistant 

 in horticulture. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — H. J. Waters of the Missouri Station 

 ha« been appointed professor of agriculture in the college and agriculturist of the 

 station vice T. F. Hunt, B. S. G. L. Holter, B. S., assistant chemist, has accepted 

 the position of professor of chemistry in the Oklahoma College, and chemist to the 

 station connected with that institution, and E. J. Haley has taken his place as 

 assistant chemist to the Pennsylvania Station. 



Utah College and Station.— The legislature of the Territory has appropriated 

 $108,000 for the erection of college buildings. Though it is only abont 18 months 

 since the college was opened, it has some 300 students. The station has added to 

 its live stock pure-bred Shropshire sheep, Jersey. Shorthorn, and Angus cattle, and 

 Berkshire pigs. J. Dryden has liet-n nppoiuted stenographer vice J. II. Walker. 



Vermont Station. — C. W. Miuott, B. S., has resigned his position as horticultur- 

 ist of the station. D. D. Howo of Brooktiold, VeruKuit, has been ajipoiuted super- 

 intendent of the farm. 



Wyoming Station. — A. A. Johnson, D. D., president of the University of Wyo- 

 ming, has been elected director of the station vice I>. McLaren, M. S., resigned. 



Bureau of Animal Ixdistry. — A report has beeu made of the recent experiments 

 in La Salle County, Illinois, with a view to testing the value of inoculation as a 

 preventive of hog cholera. The results have brought out additional evidence of 

 the danger of introducing and spreading the disease by the practice of inoculation. 



Division of Fokkstry. — Am<mg the investigations of timber carried on during the 

 last 6 months, one series of tests has had for its object to determine the etfect 

 which the practice of gathering resinous material from pine trees may have upon the 

 strength of the timber. The results of these tests are briefly stated in Circular No. 

 8 of the Division. Detailed accounts will be published when the tests are com- 

 pleted. The tests thus far made seem to show" that 'turpentine' timber, while 

 exhibiting less tensile and shearing strength [and less stiffness], is stiffer than that 

 from unboxed trees and has greater compressive ami cross-breaking strength. At 

 the same time it may be stated that turpentine timber proved itself harder to work, 

 the resin collecting in spots, gumming up the tools." 



Canada. — A report on the production and manufacture of beet sugar has recently 

 been issued by Prof. W. Saunders, director of the Dominion experimental farms. 

 This contains the history of the industry in Europe, the United States, and Canada; 

 a discussion of the relative cost of producing cane and beet sugar, with statistical 

 information regarding bounties and the production of cane and beet sugar in differ- 

 ent countries; accounts of improved varieties, methods of culture, cost of growing 

 beets, value of the beet root and of waste pulp from the sugar factories for stock 

 feeding, and the processes involved in the manufacture of beet sugar. It is calcu- 

 lated that it would require forty factories, employing from 8,000 to 9,000 hands, to 

 produce the sugar required for consumption in Canada. An annual subsidy of abont 

 $4,000,000 woubl be required to put the industry on a profitable basis. The attempts 

 to establish factories in Canada have, with perhaps one exception, proved financial 

 failures. The greatest difficulty seems to have been that the farmers have not found 

 the growing of the beets profitable enough to induce them to raise sufhcient quanti- 

 ties to meet the requirements of the factories. 



Great Britain. — Among the documents of the board of agriculture recently received 

 are the report on the distribution of grants to agrii iiltural and dairy schools in Great 

 Britain in 1890-91, with information regarding agricultural education in Belgium, 



