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irrigation engineer in charge of irrigation investigations in the Gulf States; C.J. 

 Zintheo,of iowa Agricultural College, to take charge of work in agricultural machin- 

 ery; J. T. Stewart, drainage engineer; W. E. Herring, expert assistant in drainage 

 investigations; A. P. Mover, to take charge of irrigation work in Oregon, and E. R. 

 Morgan, resident agent in Utah. 



The following States have made appropriations forcarryingon work in cooperation 

 with the irrigation and drainage investigations: California, Nebraska, Nevada and 

 Utah. 



Government Farm at Morendat. East Africa.— An account of the British East Afri- 

 can Government Farm at Morendat is given in a recent issue of Mark Lam /.■> 

 The farm is situated about 6,000 ft above the sea, and the climate is said to be 

 quite like that of an English summer, the temperature being cbout 70' in the 'las- 

 time ami falling to 15 at night. Shipments of various breeds of cattle, sheep, and 

 poultry have been sentout to the farm, breeds being selected which were considered 

 likely to cross best with the native 3tock. 



The chief object of the government is to show by experiments with imported 

 stock how the native cattle, sheep, and goats can be improved by crossing and by 

 distributing young male animal- to assist in tin- work of grading up the live stock of 

 the country. The pure-bred animal.- are reported to have done exceedingly well, 

 ami the first crosses from native cows, ewe,-, and goats to he very promising. A 

 second consignment of animals has reached the farm in good condition. A variety 

 of field crop-, including Lean-, mangels, kohl-rabi, and alfalfa an- -aid to be doing 

 well on the newly broken ground. 



The farm is being operated in a thoroughly practical manner, and it is thought 

 that the experiments with live stock and with field crop- will be of the greatest 

 interest and importance in connection \\ ith the future development of British East 

 Africa. 



Goods roads school. — From a recent number of the Breeder's < lazette we learn that: 

 ■■The Iowa State Highway Commission will conduct the first good roads school of 

 instruction in America at the State college at Ames June 12 to 17. Instruction will 

 be given in the fundamental and essential features of road building and maintenance, 

 with special reference to Iowa conditions, instruction will be given in the use for 

 road-surveying instruments and in the preparation of road map- and profiles and of 

 plan- for road improvement. Particular attention will be given to the proper methods 

 of road drainage of both surface and ground water. 



•A special feature of the work will lie an extensive exhibit of modern toad 

 machinery, with demonstration in its use by men from different places in the State 

 whom the highway commission men have found to he expert in the use of the dif- 

 ferent road machine-. Some short sections of road of different kinds will be built. 



"Another special feature of the school will he instruction in the design and build- 

 ing of cement culverts. Detailed standard plans for culverts of different sizes will be 

 furnished by the commission, with full instructions for building them, and to illus- 

 trate the work some actual culvert- will he built and tested during the school. 



" The officers of the Good Roads Association have decided to hold their annual 

 meeting at the college on Thursday and Friday, June |.~. and 16, so that those 

 attending can have the benefits of the good roads school." 



Miscellaneous. — At the twenty-seventh annual general meeting of the Institute of 

 Chemistry, held on .March 1, Dr. David Howard, president, in the course of his ad- 

 dress, alluded to the action of the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain in encouraging 

 provincial technical and agricultural colleges to undertake professional chemical work 

 gratuitously, or at purely nominal fees for farmers. Dr. Howard held that this 

 end.-avor to help dairy farmers led the colleges, which are maintained at public 

 expense by grants for technical education, to compete with the professional chem- 

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