NOTES. 



Iowa Station. — The experiments conducted last year to determine the cost of pro- 

 duction and value of the product from the various breeds of hogs, including the 

 English bacon breeds, together with a final test on the foreign market and a chem- 

 ical analysis of representatives of each by the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, are being repeated. The range lamb feeding experiment reported last year in 

 Bulletin 35 is being repeated this winter; and a carload of range-bred calves, includ- 

 ing 6 each of high-grade Herefords, Angus, and Shorthorns, are under inves- 

 tigation to determine the economy of feeding that class of stock in the corn-belt 

 agricultural States. The dairy herd of about 40 cows, containing good representa- 

 tives of 4 pure breeds, has been under careful study and investigation with reference 

 to determining the cost of production from the several types and breeds during the 

 past year, and exceedingly interesting and valuable results have been obtained. 

 This work will be continued indefinitely and a summary of results published at the 

 end of the second or third year, supplemented by other reports later. 



Missouri College and Station. — The special committee appointed by the State 

 Board of Agriculture to examine the Missouri Agricultural College and Experiment 

 Station has issued a very favorable report, showing an excellent condition of all 

 work at Columbia. 



Rhode Island Station. — A. A. Brigham, professor of agriculture in the college, 

 has been made director of the station. 



Texas Station. — The station has resumed the publication of press notes, discon- 

 tinued for two years. In revising its mailing list the station has classified its publi- 

 cations under the 3 heads, "General farm crops," " Fruits and vegetables," and " Stock 

 husbandry," and has requested that those on the mailing list indicate which class or 

 classes of bulletins they are especially interested in. The result is quite satisfactory 

 and will effect a considerable saving in the cost of bulletins. Many write that they 

 do not care for more than one or two classes of reports. About 1 in 4 want them all. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. G. Krause, of Halle, has been tendered the professor- 

 ship of botany at Wiirzburg, held by the lately deceased Julius Sachs. 



In consequence of the gift by F. Keinpe of 150,000 crowns there has been estab- 

 lished a professorship of plant biology in the University of Upsala, and Dr. Lund- 

 strum has been chosen as the first occupant of the new professorship. 



Dr. Manly Miles died February 16, 1898, at Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Miles was 

 associated with agricultural education and experimentation for many years, and was 

 the author of several books on agricultural topics, notably one on stock breeding. 



Charles Ernest Cornevin, professor of zootechny and general hygiene in the 

 National Veterinary School of Lyons, France, and in the School of Practical Agricul- 

 ture of the Rhone, died November 24, 1897, at the age of 51 years. He was the author 

 of an excellent treatise on zootechny and has made extended studies on poisonous 

 feeding stuffs and on the use of the industrial by-products in the feeding of animals, 

 including, among others, experiments with Cytisus, potatoes, and castor-bean and 

 cotton-seed cakes. The results of these studies are embodied in two books, entitled 

 Les plant ea ve'ncneuses consider 6e& an point de rue de V empoison nement des animaux de la 

 ferme and Des residus industriels dans V alimentation dtt bctail. He also made valuable 

 contributions to the knowledge of animal diseases. He investigated hog cholera 

 and gangrenous septicaemia, and in connection with Arloing and Thomas showed 

 the distinction between symptomatic charbon of cattle and charbonous fever, pro- 

 posing a successful method of vaccination against the former. 

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