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number of stations than formerlj' supplemented their regular publications with more 

 or less frequent issues of press bulletins, and most of the stations report a large and 

 constantly increasing correspondence with farmers on a wide variety of topics. 



Ontario Agricultural College. — A short course in stock and grain judging for 

 farmers' institute workers Avas held at the college this year for tlie tirst time. The 

 course opened ^larch 17, and continued for two weeks. It included judging exer- 

 cises with horses, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, swine, and grain, including the 

 identification of weed seeds found in grass seed and clover seed. 



The School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture at Poughkeepsie. — 

 This school, recently removed from Briarcliff ^lanor, is to be closed on account of 

 failure to secure the necessary fundi; for buildings and general equipment. The fur- 

 nishings of the two leased buildings which it occupied and the stock and implements 

 on the farm will be sold. 



DoYLESTOWN Farm School. — The trustees have decided to i)urchase a tract of land 

 as an addition to the farm, at a cost of $5,000. The Pennsylvania legislature has 

 appropriated $15,000 toward the maintenance of the school. 



Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute. — This is a secondary school for 

 boys, opened last September at Winona Lake, Ind., and is located on the grounds of 

 the Winona Assembly and Summer School. The course of study embraces six years 

 of work, two in the preparatory department and four in the academic. The subjects 

 having an agricultural bearing are soils and crops, farm buildings, breeds of live 

 stock, history of agriculture, dairying, agricultural engineering, feeds and feeding, 

 entomology, economic botany, horticulture, agricultural physics, and chemistry. In 

 addition to these subjects, instruction is given in literature, mathematics, history, 

 science, manual training, language, the Bible, vocal music, and physical culture. The 

 enrollment this year is nearly 90, and includes boys from 11 different States and 3 

 foreign countries. A memorial to be known as the James A. Mount Building will 

 be ready for occupancy in the fall. 



New Periodicals. — The Pasteur Institute of Paris has recently issued a new 

 publication entitled Bulletin de V Instltut Paxtenr. The first number bears the date 

 February 28, 1903, and the publication is to be issued bimonthly. The purpose of 

 this Bulletin is to furnish to persons who are interested in micro-biology in its 

 broadest sense reviews and abstracts of current literature in this field. The material 

 contained in the Bulktbi is divided into 2 classes, viz, reviews and abstracts. The 

 reviews deal in a critical manner with subjects of general interest, and are intended 

 for the use of persons who are not experts in micro-biology or actually occupied in 

 investigations in this field. The abstracts will l)e made to cover all publications on 

 bacteriology, medicine, general biology, physiology, and biological chemistry, in so 

 far as these may be connected with the subject of micro-biology. The abstracts are 

 classified into 8 groups according to the subjects involved, as follows: General works, 

 text-books, micro-biology, technique, instruments, cultures, staining; morphology 

 and classification of microbes; works on general biology as related to micro-biology; 

 chemical actions exercised by microbes, agricultural and industrial micro-biology; 

 pathogenic effects of microbes, etiology of diseases, experimental infections, reactions 

 of the organism; microbic and cellular toxins, cytotoxins, diastases; phagocytoses, 

 immunity, vaccination, serotherapy; and hygiene, prophylaxis, disinfection. 



JVaturuissenschaftliche Zcitschrift fur Land- und Forstuirtschaft (Natural Science 

 Journal for Agriculture and Forestry) is the title of a new periodical which appeared 

 early in the year. It is a monthly journal, edited l)y Prof. Carl Freiherr von Tubeuf 

 and Dr. Lorenz Hiltner, both of Munich, who have associated with themselves as 

 collaborators a long list of specialists prominent in various branches of agriculture 

 and forestry. The scope of the new journal Avill embrace the anatomy, physiology, 



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