100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Agkicultukal Education in Russia. — A new agricultural scliool of the interme- 

 diate grade has recently l)een opened near the city of Pskov, Russia. There are 

 now 8 schools of this class under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture. The 

 niunicii)ality of Pskov granted 850 acres of land to the school, located about 3 miles 

 from town. Agricultural courses for women were opened in May at the Imperial 

 Botanical Garden at St. Petersburg. These courses include horticulture and garden- 

 ing, dairying, poultry raising, and beet culture. They were organized by the Society 

 for the Promotion of Female Agricultural Education. Forty-eight students have 

 been enrolled, most of whom will take all four of the courses. The same Society for 

 the Promotion of Female Agricultural I'klucation has secured the establishment of 

 similar courses at the Mariinsk Agricultural School. 



In a<lditi<)n to these and other means of popular agricultural education, there are 

 held in Russia courses for teachers in primary public schools, which are condui-ted at 

 agricultural schools during the period of 4 to 6 weeks; courses for educated persons 

 other than teachers, in which the theoretical studies occupy the greater portion of the 

 time; public readings at fairs, museums, meetings of societies, etc.; short courses for 

 peasants and other persons interested in agriculture, lasting 2 to 3 weeks and con- 

 ducted at some educational institution; and practical agricultural courses for soldiers 

 and such detachments of the army as are located near an agricultural school. 



Agricultural Budget of Russia for 1902. — The more important items for agri- 

 culture are as follows: Agricultural education, $498,877.20; experiment stations, 

 museums, etc., 1165,320.40; increase to the amelioration fund, $200,000; construction 

 of buildings, etc., $144,000; irrigation work, $107,200; subsidies to societies, institu- 

 tions, and private persons for useful agricultural enterprises, $90,904; reclaiming 

 marshes and putting up of peat for fuel purposes, $75,148; development and encour- 

 agement of village industrial handicraft, $72,000; development and encouragement 

 of certain industrial branches of agriculture, $55,700; combating jihyllDxera and 

 other injurious insects and animals, $50,400; and pu])lications, $41,354. The api>ro- 

 priation for agrii-ultural education is an increase of $20,400 over the previous year, 

 to cover the expense of a new agricultural middle school and some agricultural 

 schools of lower grade. 



A.ssociATioN OF OFFICIAL AGRICULTURAL CiiEMisTs. — It Is aunouiiced that the nine- 

 teenth annual meeting of the Association will be held in the lecture hall of Colum- 

 bian University, Washington, D. C, October 2-4, 1902. 



Miscellaneous. — Jierue hiblio(/rap}u(/ue des sciences )iatiirel/i's j)iires ct ((jijill'juns has 

 been discontinued. A movement is on foot to publish matter i)ertaining to agricul- 

 ture in the Bulletin tie V office des renseignemenls tujricoles. 



Prof. Dr. Emil Chr. Hansen celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his connec- 

 tion with the Carlsberg Laboratory of Copenhagen on July 1, 1902. His work on 

 the physiology of fermentation is well known. 



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