308 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Italian, French, German, and English, and the proceedings are to be published in 

 Italian and Frencli. 



The German Experiment Station for the Leather Industry gives a report of its work 

 for 1901 in a recent number of ChemiJcer Zeitung (26 (1902), No. 77, p. 899). This 

 station is located at Freiberg, Saxony, and is under the directorship of Dr. Johannes 

 Paessler. The present report is its fourth, and shows that there has been a steady 

 growth each year in the amount of analytical work called for. This consists of 

 examination of raw materials and finished jiroducts, tannin extracts and prepara- 

 tions, fats and oils, waters, etc. In addition a number of investigations were carried 

 on upon different phases of the leather industry. Work was done for private indi- 

 viduals and for the German army and navy officials, and expert advice was furnished 

 to a number of tanneries and similar establishments. 



The work of the agricultural department in the Hampton Normal and Agricul- 

 tural Institute is being considerably broadened. The introduction recently of agri- 

 culture into all the courses of the institute has increased the work of the agricul- 

 tural department, so that the employment of two assistants to Prof. C. L. Goodrich 

 has been necessary. George Hosford, a graduate of Cornell in the class of 1902, has 

 been put in charge of the horticultural work, and R. E. Eastman, a graduate of Kan- 

 sas Agricultural College, who has recently taken a master's degree at Cornell, has 

 been put in charge of the landscape gardening work. This work during the coming 

 year will be quite important, owing to the fact that many of the institute buildings 

 are to be moved, servers are to be put in, and the walks and drives laid out to con- 

 form with the new scheme. In dairy work the institute is making considerable 

 progress. A large herd of grade Holsteins is maintained; also a herd of ordinary 

 cows. Accommodations for these animals are at present inadequate, but a modern 

 dairy barn, about 170 ft. long by 40 ft. wide, is now being constructed. On one side 

 of the main structure a small wing contains two rooms for straining and cooling 

 milk and keeping records, while on the opposite side is a wing for storing feed in 

 small quantities. It is thought inadvisable to store large quantities of forage in 

 connection with the dairy barn, so another building will be erected for this pur- 

 pose. The nature-study bureau of the institute has begun the publication of leaflets 

 for farmers. Two series of these leaflets are published, one on agriculture, the other 

 on animal industry. 



The National Farm School at Doylestowu, Pa., which entered upon the year with 

 a new director and nearly entirely new teaching force, is in a prosperous condition. 

 The school has about 40 students, 20 of whom are freshmen. A quite large i)Oultry 

 department has been added, with I. B. Gage, a graduate of the Rhode Island 

 Poultry School, in charge. A piggery and sheep shed are being erected and arrange- 

 ments provided for the proper care of the manure. A number of minor alterations 

 are being made in other buildings to better suit them to their purpose, and it is 

 hoped later to erect a small dormitory, which is much needed. The present director 

 of the school is Dr. J. II. Washl)urn, formerly of Rhode Island. The agriculturist 

 is L. J. Shepard, who was previously connected with the Maine College and Station, 

 and the horticulturist is W. B. Madison, a graduate of the Rhode Island College. 



According to a recent press bulletin from the University of Illinois several counties 

 in that State are organizing young people's clubs to cooperate during the coming 

 year with the experiment station and college of agricultui-e of the University of 

 Illinois in various lines of experimental work. Clubs have been organized in Scott, 

 Winnebago, McHenry, La Salle, Sangamon, McLean, McCoupin, and other counties. 

 At present the young people comprising the membership in these clubs are engaged 

 in the experimental work of testing seed corn and in growing corn or flowers in com- 

 petition for special premiums to be offered at their institutes next winter. The 

 results of the tests are recorded on prepared blanks and sent to the college of agri- 

 culture, where they are tabulated. 



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