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But besides being models as to methods, it is hoped to make them of use experi- 

 mentally, and therefore a few trees each of a number of new varieties of fruits will 

 he included in each orchard. Each plantation will include apples, pears, plums, 

 cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, crab apples, and all kinds of small fruits." On the 

 experimental plat of the school varieties of most of these fruits were set out, together 

 with a long list of ornamental trees and shrubs; and experiments were made in 

 growing a variety of cover crops for orchards. The work of holding "agricultural 

 meetings" has been continued, the report mentioning 23 such meetings during the 

 year which were attended by the principal of the school. 



Under the direction of the board of advisers of the faculty and alumni of the New 

 York State College of Forestry, a periodical publication, known as the Forestry 

 Quarterly, has appeared. The objects to which this journal is devoted are to aid in 

 the establishment of rational forest management, to offer an organ for the publica- 

 tion of technical papers of interest to professional foresters in America, and, by 

 means of abstracts, to keep the profession in touch with the current literature and 

 forestry movement in the United States. 



A new journal on moor culture, entitled Iledeselskabets Tidsskriff, has appeared. 

 The journal is to be published monthly by the Moor Society of Aarhus, and is 

 devoted to a discussion of the usual problems met with in the cultivation of swampy 

 areas, including particularly the culture of grasses and other crops which can be 

 raised in such conditions, and reports of fertilizer experiments. 



A note in Nature states that Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, has ordered the 

 heads of the veterinary, survey, forest, meteorological, geological, agricultural, and 

 botanical departments of India to form a board of economic inquiry, which shall 

 meet twice annually to formulate a programme and to review past work. The board 

 is also to act as an advisory committee to the Government. 



In order to encourage the cultivation of plants grown by children attending the 

 elementary schools, the education board at Barbados, British West Indies, has issued 

 a list of 50 prizes, varying in value from $2 to 25 cents each, to be offered by the 

 imperial Department of Agriculture at an exhibition to be held at Dodd's Plantation, 

 January 13, 1903. The plants exhibited must be grown and cared for by the exhibitor. 

 As a further means of promoting this work the Imperial Department of Agriculture 

 distributes small jjackages of vegetable seeds to the different schools. 



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