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July 1. an increase of $15,000 over the previous year. This will enable an enlarge- 

 ment of the scope of the work to include the investigation of the chemical and physi- 

 cal character of road materials, which has been carried on in the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 and to furnish expert advice on road making. Director Martin Dodge retired with 

 the close of the year, and was succeeded by Logan W. Page as director. Dr. A. S. 

 Cushman, as assistant director, assumed charge of the laboratory and testing work, 

 with Philip T. Wormeley as engineer of tests. A new Highway Division has been 

 established, with A. X. Johnson as highway engineer in charge of all field work, and 

 a Division of Records fur the collection and compilation of statistics - relating to road 

 building, under the direction of M. < >. Eldridge. A post-graduate course in high- 

 way engineering is being offered by the Office, with a view to giving young civil 

 engineers theoretical and practical training inroad building. A, number of young 

 men entered upon this course at the beginning of the year. 



Food Inspection Laboratories of the Bureau of Chemistry. — Laboratories for food 

 inspection under the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department are now in operation 

 in New York and San Francisco, R. E. Doolittle being chief of the New York labora- 

 tory and R. A. Gould of the laboratory in San Francisco. New laboratories are 

 being located in Boston, with B. II. Smith in charge: New Orleans, with C. W. 

 Harrison in charge; and Philadelphia and Chicago. The chief's of the last two have 

 not yet been definitely determined upon. i 



Government Testing of Agricultural Machinery in Spain. — It is stated in a recent nuni- 

 ber i if Mark Line Express that "according to a report of the Austro-Hungarian consul 

 at Madrid, a royal decree of December '!?>, 1904, provides for the establishment of atest- 

 ing station for agricultural machinery at the • Institute Agricola de Alfonso XII' (a 

 kind of agricultural high school , at Madrid. The aim is to make practical tests of 

 agricultural machinery and apparatus as regards material, mode of operation, work 

 accomplished, cost. etc. Spanish and foreign inventors, constructors, and agricul- 

 turists are invited to submit machinery for this purpose. The station will lie pro- 

 vided with the necessary space, power, and attendants. In this way the expense 

 for machine owners will be greatly lessened, and foreign manufacturers, in particu- 

 lar, will be enabled to introduce their goods into Spain. The results of each test 

 will be embodied in an official certificate.'' 



Organ of the German Experiment Stations.— With the close of Volume HI of i>i, 

 Landwirtschaftlichen Vermchs-Stationen, the organ of the German experiment stations, 

 Prof. F. Nobbe relinquished the editorial supervision which he has retained for over 

 40 years. The journal was founded in 1859, and Professor Nobbe assumed editorial 

 control in 1861, 06 consecutive volumes having been issued under his direction. 

 This journal has attained a high rank as an organ for agricultural investigation, and 

 is very widely known. The reason given for Professor Xobbe's relinquishing the 

 editorial management is his retirement from active service, as previously announced. 



He is succeeded as editor by Dr. 0. Kellner, director of the agricultural experi- 

 ment station of Mockern, under whom the first number of the sixty-second volume 

 has recently been issued. Dr. Kellner's name will be an assurance to all readers 

 that the high standard established by this journal will be maintained. 



Rothamsted Experiment Station. — According to the report of the Lawes Agricul- 

 tural Trust for the past year, the trust committee continues to find its income very 

 inadequate to the proper development of the Rothamsted Station. "Only dona- 

 tions and subscriptions from various sources, including £300 from the Goldsmiths' 

 Company, 650 from the Clothworkers' Company, £50 from Lord Rothschild, etc., 

 have prevented a serious deficit on the year's working." The report mentions that 

 Mr. .1. F. Mason has volunteered to erect and equip a new laboratory for agricultural 

 bacteriology, which will be the first of its kind in that country, as a continuance of 

 the experiments carried <>n for many years by his father, the late James Mason, at 



