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Wyoming University. — J. D. McVean, who has been on pig club work with 

 the Bureau of Anir»al Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has accepted 

 a position as extension worker in animal husbandry beginning April 1. 



Experiment Station Record. — E. H. Nollau, specialist in agricultural, bio- 

 logical, and physiological chemistry, has resigned to engage in commercial 

 research on dyes. He has been succeeded by Miss Sybil L. Smith, head of the 

 department of chemistry in Milwaukee-Downer College. 



Cuban Experiment Station. — Dr. Mario Calvino, formerly chief of the de- 

 partment of horticulture in the Central Experiment Station of Mexico, has been 

 appointed director. 



Farm School and Experimental Work in Uruguay. — A decree of October 16, 

 1917, of the Uruguayan Government, provides for a school for farm foremen to 

 be opened at the National Nursery and Poultry Farm maintained by the Gov- 

 ernment at Toledo. A maximum of 20 pupils over 16 years of age, who must 

 come from poor families and know how to read and write, will be admitted. 

 The 2-year course which will be offered will include tree nursery and orchard 

 work, general farming, pastures, vineyards and wine making, poultry raising, 

 apiculture, and hog raising. 



Experimental studies are to be initiated at once with soil mixtures for pot- 

 ting and transplanting, sizes of pots and packing, the economic and feeding 

 value of native forage plants, the extension of plantations of yerba mate 

 (Paraguayan tea), and the manufacture of starch and alcohol. The commis- 

 sion in charge of the nursery is authorized to apply $2,585 from the receipts 

 of the establishment to the installation and maintenance of the school during 

 the period from November, 1917, to June, 1918. 



New Journals. — The Scottish Journal of Agriculture is being issued quarterly 

 by the Board of Agriculture of Scotland. It is patterned closely after The 

 Journal of the Board o/ Agriculture of England, consisting of general articles, 

 a review of recent periodical literature, official notices, statistics, etc. The 

 initial number contains a description of the important Corn Production Act of 

 Great Britain. This act took effect in Ireland, August 21, 1917, and will become 

 effective in England, Scotland, and Wales a year later, and continues in force 

 until 1922. It supplements the Defense of the Realm Act, and provides for 

 minimum prices on wheat and oats through a system of subsidies, fixes mini- 

 mum wages for farm laborers, restricts the raising of agricultural rents, and 

 confers sweeping powers upon the authorities to enforce proper cultivation of 

 lands to insure gootl husbandry and maximum food production. 



The Yoorhees Farmer is being published at Rutgers College by the E. B. 

 Voorhees Agricultural Society, as a medium for reaching the progressive farm- 

 ers in the State in a practical way. The initial number contains several articles 

 by the members of the college and station staff, including one by Director Lip- 

 man, entitled The Service Rendered to the Farmers of New Jersey by Their 

 Agricultural Experiment Station and College. 



The South African Journal of Industries is being issued by the Department 

 of Industries as an official organ for the advancement of the industrial inter- 

 ests of the Union of South Africa. The initial number contains articles on 

 The Economics of Agricultural Production in South Africa, The Increase of 

 Food Production. South African Buchu, etc. 



The International Institute of Agriculture has established a publication sup- 

 plementary to the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics and known as Documentary 

 Leaflets. This will embody scattered data relative to yields, trade, stocks, 

 prices, freight rates, etc., especially of such crops as rubber, cocoa, tea, and jute. 



