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articles by experiment-station workers which are in a sense resumes of the work along 

 particular lines. While the agricultural papers generally give considerable attention 

 to the work and publications of the experiment stations, there is an opportunity for 

 furnishing better abstracts and resumes than is usually done. The progressive farmer 

 must depend quite largely upon the teachings of the experiment stations, and any 

 publication which presents these observi. 'ions and discoveries to him in a concise and 

 intelligent manner serves a useful purpose. 



Agricola Arichis is the title of an attractive bimonthly recently inaugurated by 

 the agricultural department of the Colorado Agricultural College and Experiment 

 Station. The publication is intended as a form of university-extension work, its 

 object being educational. It differs from the popular bulletins of some stations by 

 appearing periodically, and by being composed of short timely articles on the work 

 of the college and the station, the object being to arouse an interest in this work and 

 to extend its range of usefulness. The attractive and readable character of the first 

 number bespeaks for it a useful place among publications of its class. 



Miscellaneous. — Notice has been sent out of the following resolution adopted by 

 the American Veterinary Medical Association at its last annual meeting at Detroit, 

 Mich. : 



"Whereas we believe that the time has arrived in the history of our profession 

 and in the history of our stock-breeding industry when the experiment stations of 

 our various States and Territories should undertake the work of research in regard 

 to the physiology and diseases of domestic animals in a more comprehensive manner 

 than has yet been done: Therefore, be it 



"Hesolved, That this association recommend to the governing boards of the various 

 stations that they give this branch of station work more liberal support." 



NeceoloCtY. — Dr. Otto Lugger, State entomologist to Minnesota and entomologist 

 to the ^linnesota College and Station, died May 21 of pneumonia. Born in Ger- 

 many in 1844, he came to this country in 1865, and was engaged in the engineer serv- 

 ice of the Great Lakes for a period of three years. At the end of this time he became 

 assistant to C. V. Riley in Missouri, which jjosition he held for seven years, after 

 which he was chosen as curator of the ^Maryland Academy of Science in Baltimore. 

 Professor Lugger spent two years in the Division of Entomology of this Department, 

 and in 1888 was appointed entomologist and botanist at the Minnesota Station and 

 professor of zoology and entomology in the college. These positions, together with 

 that of State entomologist, he held at the time of his death. While he maintained 

 a general interest in a variety of biological work, his main efforts were put forth in 

 the field of entomology. In economic entomology his published contributions are 

 recognized as Ijeing of high rank. Some of the more prominent features of his work 

 have been his investigations on Rocky IMountain locusts and other locusts, and insects 

 injurious to cereals, including numerous experiments in devising remedies for com- 

 bating the chinch bug. During the past few years he published a number of reports 

 on certain groups of insects, among which may be mentioned butterflies and moths 

 injurious to fruit-producing trees, beetles injurious to fruit-producing trees, and bugs 

 injurious to our cultivated plants. These reports contain, along with the summaries, 

 many notes prepared from original observations on a great variety of insects during 

 the active years of his life. In his death the ilinnesota College and Station and the 

 cause of economic entomology in general have sustained a severe loss. 



The death of David Dickson, director of the practical school of agriculture at Ber- 

 thonval (Pais-de-Calais), France, is reported in the Journal cV Agriculture Pratique. In 

 collaboration with L. Malpeaux he had conducted a number of experiments on vari- 

 ous agricultural topics while director of the station, notably on the use of pure and 

 artificial milk for fattening calves, and upon the use of molasses in feeding animals. 







