19171 NOTES. 697 



Washington Station. — A state office of farm markets has been established, 

 attached to the station. The director is to be appointed by the director of the 

 station with the approval of the governor. The study and improvement of 

 market conditions is to be taken up and a market news service will be main- 

 tained. The act carries an appropriation of $15,000 for the biennium. 



Dr. I. D. Cardiff has resigned as director of the station, his resignation to 

 take effect during April. 



West Virginia "University and Station. — Under the will of the late Lawrence 

 A. Reymann the station receives an estate of about 931 acres of improved land 

 and a herd of about 125 pure bred Ayrshire cattle, the total value being about 

 $120,000. The land is located on Capon River, in Hardy County near the 

 Vinginia line, and is well equipped with buildings, farm machinery, etc., in- 

 cluding a recently constructed cheese factory. The purpose of the gift is ex- 

 pressed as to promote, develop, and advance the science of agriculture in its 

 most comprehensive scope, and in addition to give special attention to the 

 breeding and development of Ayrshire cattle. The station obtained possession 

 March 1, L. F. Sutton being placed in charge as superintendent. 



Wyoming Station. — Earl O'Roke, instructor In zoology at the University of 

 Kansas, has been appointed assistant zoologist and parasitologist beginning 

 March 1. 



Canadian Experimental Farms. — An experimental flax mill has been erected 

 at the Central Experiment Farm at Ottawa and is being equipped for compre- 

 hensive experimental work in fiber manufacture. Field work with flax and 

 hemp is also to be conducted at Ottawa, several branch stations, and clsewh )re, 

 in an attempt to determine the areas in Canada suitable for the industry and 

 to work out problems connected with its development. 



Research laboratories for special studies of grain rust are being established at 

 Brandon, Manitoba, and Indian Head, Saskatchewan. W. P. Fraser, assistant 

 biologist in Macdonald College, has been appointed to take charge of this work. 



Agricultural Development in Ontario. — In a special effort to populate and 

 bring under cultivation large areas in northern Ontario, an agricultural high 

 school and demonstration farms at New Liskeard, a government creamery at 

 the same place, a 50-acre demonstration field near Matheson, and a plant breed- 

 ing station at Ft. William are to be established. W. R. Leslie, a graduate of 

 the Manitoba College, is to take charge of the breeding station. 



Plans are also under way for the necessary buildings and equipment ^or a 

 new agricultural school to be established, through the Ontario Department of 

 Agriculture, near Kemptville in eastern Ontario. It is intended to give useful 

 and practical instruction in agriculture to young men between the ttvis ol 16 

 and 25 who have left school and domestic science instruction to young women. 

 It is not proposed to duplicate anything already being done in the Province 

 unless to some extent the first two years of the course at the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College. The regular course will not be longer than two years and there 

 may also be a number of short courses. 



Special provision has been made in Ontario for the obtaining of homesteads 

 by returning soldiers. These soldiers will first be sent to an agricultural train- 

 ing depot being established at the government experimental farm at Monteith, 

 where they will receive instruction. When a sufficient number have been 

 trained, a farm colony will be opened at some point along the railway in 

 charge of a competent superintendent. Farms containing not over 80 acres will 

 be laid out and so planned as to bring the various farm hou.ses as closely to- 

 gether as possible. A 10-acre tract will be cleared on each farm, and when 

 this is completed the farm may be allotted free of charge to a soldier. He 

 may also receive machinery, live stock, etc., to the value of $500, this being 



