732 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, wan reelected president of the society, 

 and V. A. Clark, of Arizona, secretary-treasurer, with U. P. Hedrick, of Michigan, 

 assistant secretary. G. B. Brackett, T. V. Munson, and E. J. Wickson were chosen 

 vice-presidents; and W. R. Lazenby (chairman), L. II. Bailey, W. M. Munson, W. L. 

 Howard, and John Craig, members of the executive committee. 



Miscellaneous. — Sojiro Yokoyama, chief of the bureau of productive industries of 

 the government of Formosa, who represented his government as commissioner to the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, recently spent several days at this Department on 

 his way home. He reports the establishment in 1903 of an experimental tea factory 

 at Anpeiching, under the directorship of K. Fujiye. Hitherto all tea has been pre- 

 pared by hand labor, bul this method has become very expensive, and the experi- 

 mental tea factory was established to introduce and test such machinery as is already 

 in use in Ceylon and India, and to devise new machinery adapted to the special con- 

 ditions prevailing in Formosa. The results already attained indicate that by the use 

 of machinery the cost of producing tea can be reduced about one-half. 



In accordance with the general policy of the Japanese I rovernment to reduce the 

 number of government experiment stations and concentrate the work of these insti- 

 tutions at a few centers, the two Formosa experiment stations at Taichiu and Tainan 

 have been abandoned and their work transferred to the station at Taipeh, under the 

 directorship of Y. Fujine. In connection with the latter institution two-year prac- 

 tical courses in agriculture are now given for the benefit of t lie Chinese population 

 of the island. About 60 boys are now enrolled in these courses. Mr. Yokoyama 

 has been making a careful study of the agricultural extension work in the United 

 States with a view of introducing such features of the work as can be adapted to the 

 conditions in Formosa. 



The Experiment Station for Indigo, at Klaten, Java, was discontinued with the 

 close of the past year. The former director of the station, J. J. Hazewinkel, has 

 become assistant directorof the West Java Sugar Cane Experiment Station, "Kagok," 

 Pekalongan, Java. 



The Mark Lane Express notes the opening of a new school of forestry by the com- 

 missioner of woods in the Forest of Dean and the High Meadows Woods adjoining. 

 The course will last two years, and will include practical work in the woods, as well 

 as lectures on forestry. 



A scheme is on foot for reorganizing the department of agriculture of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, with a view to the creation of a department of agriculture, colonial 

 industries and technical instruction. This would greatly enlarge the present depart- 

 ment and its functions, extending its work for agriculture as well as including colo- 

 nial industries and technical instruction. A commission has been appointed to 

 inquire into and report upon the advisability of such reorganization. 



Dr. Burton F. Livingston, of the department of botany, University of Chicago, 

 who has been for some months connected with the work of the Bureau of Soils, has 

 been appointed an expert on the staff of the Bureau, and will enter upon the work 

 in Washington early in April. 



T. S. Dymond, of the Essex County Technical Laboratories, Chelmsford, has been 

 appointed to an inspectorship under the board of education, and to act as special 

 advisor in matters relating to rural education, nature study in public schools, agri- 

 cultural instruction in evening schools, and the advancement of various forms of 

 technical education in rural districts. 



R. I. Smith has been appointed State entomologist of Georgia, to succeed Wilmon 

 Newell, wdio has gone to Louisiana. 



The death is announced of Mr. Edmond Philippar, director of the National School 

 of Agriculture at Grignon from 1883 until 1901, when he retired. 



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