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Miscellaneous. — A preliminary announcement of the Dmm County (Wisconsin) 

 School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy has been received. This school 

 opened at Menomonie October 20. A commodious brick building has been pro- 

 vided for the school, with equipment for cooking, sewing, and general instruction 

 along all lines of the course, and a tract of land near by will be used for practical 

 demonstrations. The course of study for boys includes work in the quality and 

 composition of soils, plant life, vegetable gardening, crops, animal husbandry, dairy- 

 ing, poultry, economic insects, farm accounts, blacksmithing and other metal work, 

 carpentry, and rural building. The course of study for girls includes work in 

 sewing, cooking, home economy and management, drawing and designing, domestic 

 hygiene, chemistry of foods, dairying, poultry, farm accounts, vegetable and flower 

 gardening, and other plant studies. Both courses include reviews in common 

 branches and studies in physical geography, civil government, physiology, library 

 readings, English, and elementary science. Only two j'ears will be required to com- 

 plete the full course for either boys or girls, and shorter courses may be pursued. 

 The principal of the new school, who is also agriculturist, is Dr. K. C. Davis, 

 formerly horticulturist of the West Virginia Station. 



A recent number of the Journal of Horticulture (54 (1902), No. 2782, p. 77) gives 

 a brief account of the establishment of the Middlesex County Council School of 

 Horticulture, a school of practical and scientific horticulture at Pymmes Park, 

 Edmonton. The main object of the school is to give a thorough horticultural train- 

 ing to those who are anxious to take up gardening as a profession. Scientific 

 training will go hand in hand with practical lectures and demonstrations. The 

 garden work is to be under the direction of John Weathers, author of the recent 

 work entitled A Practical Guide to Garden Plants (E. S. K., 13, p. 52). 



An agricultural botanical institute was opened at Munich October 1, 1902. Its 

 object is the promotion of agronomy especially and the conduct of experiments in 

 the culture and manuring of plants and in plant breeding; studies of the bacteriology 

 of soils, manures, etc.; the suppression of plant diseases; seed examination, and the 

 botanical, microscopic, and bacteriological examination of feeding stuffs. Dr. Lorenz 

 Hiltner, formerly in charge of the bacteriological section in the Imperial Plealth 

 Office at Berlin, has been made director of the institute. He will have three assist- 

 ants, and an experimental field will be placed at his disposal. The institute is a 

 State institution, and will receive an annual appnmriation of 24,500 marks (about 

 $6,000) . 



The reorganization of the Halle Experiment Station, necessitated by the death of 

 Dr. Maercker, has been completed. According to a note in Die landwirtschaftlichen 

 Yerstfclis-Stationen, the original station has been divided into three parts — the agri- 

 cultural-chemical experiment station, the control station, and the botanical station. 

 The first, which is under the directorship of Prof. W. Schneidewind, has been sub- 

 divided into three divisions — the agricultural-chemical division, with the director in 

 charge, and Dr. H. C. Miiller vice-director; the botanical division, in charge of Dr. 

 W. Kruger; and the experimental farm at Lauchstiidt, in charge of Mr. Grebler. 

 The control station is in charge of Dr. Briihring, director, with Dr. Xaumann vice- 

 director. Dr. Steffeck is director of the botanical station. 



At the recent annual congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, held at 

 Exeter, England, Eaton Jones presented a paper before the Veterinary Section, on 

 the Veterinary Supervision of Domesticated Animals, in which he called attention 

 to the deplorable condition of town and county stables, cow sheds, and piggeries. 

 Resolutions were adopted advocating the abolition of private slaughterhouses, the 

 appointment of veterinary inspectors of all animals intended for food, the inspection 

 of dairies and cow stables, and tlie making of suitable jirovision for the disposal of 

 carcasses unfit for food. 



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