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building and laboratories will be built at the farm which has been acquired outside 

 thr? city. This school, which has been popularly referred to as the Briarcliff School, 

 will hereafter be known as the School of Practical Agriculture at Poughkeepsie. 



The death is announced of Dr. T. R. Segelcke, professor of dairying in the Royal 

 Veterinary and Agricultural College at Copenhagen. Professor Segelcke was one of 

 the ver}- first to take up the systematizing of butter and cheese making as based upon 

 the observance of scientific principles of management, and has been generally recog- 

 nized as the father of modern dairying in Scandinavia. For many years he carried 

 on a propaganda for the improvement of dairy practice among the farmers in -Den- 

 mark, and found an able second in Professor Fjord, who took up the experimental 

 side. He was appointed instru(;tor in dairying at the Royal Agricultural College in 

 the early sixties, and in 1874 was made professor of that branch. He is said to have 

 been the first professor of dairying appointed to any institution in the world. The 

 number of students in the institution grew from 2 in 1864 to 189 in 1877. Professor 

 Segelcke' s lectures were very popular, and have been frequented by nearly all the 

 teachers of dairying and the leading dairy specialists in the Scandinavian countries 

 for 25 years past. He also held courses of two to three months in practical dairying 

 at a large number of first-class creameries in different parts of Denmark. His popu- 

 larity was shown on the occasion of the celebration of his seventieth birthday by his 

 students last year. Of late years he had confined himself more especially to his 

 lectures at the college, but remained at the head of the commission charged with 

 carrying out the regulations of the oleomargarine laws. 



The Chemical Physiological Experiment Station for Wine and Fruit Growing at 

 Klosterneuburg, Austria, has been discontinued and the control work of the station 

 united with that of the Agricultural Chemical Experiment Station at Vienna, under 

 Dr. F. W. Dafert. The viticultural division of the Vienna Station has also taken 

 charge of all work in that line at the Klo'sterneuburg Station, except the preparation 

 of yeast cultures for wine making, which in future will be in charge of the Higher 

 School for Wine and Fruit Culture at Klosterneuburg. 



We quote the following from Nature: The committee of the class including agri- 

 cultural practice and agricultural statistics at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 has decided 

 to make a grant of 2,400 francs to the agricultural section of the Paris Society for the 

 Encouragement of National Industries, to be employed in agricultural research in 

 such a manner as the committee of the society determines. In his letter to the presi- 

 dent of the society, M. Tisserand, on behalf of the exhibition committee, expresses 

 satisfaction that such a grant is possible as the outcome of the work of the section of 

 the exhibition represented by him. 



A recent number of Chronique agncole <Ju canton de Vaud gives an account of a very 

 enthusiastic celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Bieler, 

 and of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment as director of the Cantonal 

 School of Agriculture. Representatives of many important agricultural societies and 

 institutions of Switzerland participated. Professor Bieler, by public addresses, lec- 

 tures, publications, and activity in various societies, has exerted a considerable influ- 

 ence on the progress of agriculture in Switzerland, largely by popularizing science 

 relating to agriculture and making it available for the practical agriculturist. 



The first number of The Australian Gardener recently reached this Office. It is a 

 monthly journal of 16 to 18 pages and devoted mainly to floriculture. It also con- 

 tains information of a practical character upon vegetable and fruit growing, and is 

 designed for professional, practical, and amateur gardeners in Australia, New Zea- 

 land, Tasmania, and South Africa. 



A school for tanning industry, the first to be established in Italy, was opened at 

 Turin in December. The school was founded by the local association for the tan- 

 ning industry. 







