604 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Articles on irrigation are also abstracted, as well as everything having a bearing on 

 horticulture and botany. 



The Royal Agricultural Society of England has discontinued the publication of its 

 Journal as a quarterly and will hereafter issue an annual in its place. 



The Handbook of Connecticut Agriculture, prepared by T. S. Gold, has been pub- 

 lished by the State Board of Agriculture. The pamphlet contains about 100 pages 

 with illustrations. Following a brief statement on the agriculture of the State and 

 its progress are short accounts of the State and Storrs stations, the Connecticut Storrs 

 College, the cattle industry of Connecticut, fruit growing, floriculture, seed growing, 

 tobacco growing, and other industries. 



Science for January 17, 1902, prints an abstract of an open letter by B. E. Fernow, 

 replying to severe criticism of the methods practiced by the Cornell College of 

 Forestry in the management of its reserve in the Adirondacks. In his communica- 

 tion Professor Fernow makes it plain that approved forestry methods are being 

 practiced; that thus far 100 trees have been planted for every 4 trees cut, and that 

 the criticisms are due to false rumors and an imperfect understanding of the true 

 condition of the case. 



Sir William MacDonald has offered to the Government of Ontario $125,000, to be 

 used in the erection of a building at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, with 

 a view to giving instruction to school-teachers in the elements of nature study and 

 domestic science. 



The British Board of Agriculture has appointed a committee to investigate braxy 

 and louping ill of sheep, which are the cause of very great loss to the sheep-farming 

 industry in Scotland. The members of the committee ar<? Professor Hamilton, of 

 Aberdeen University; J. McI. McCall, assistant veterinary officer to the board; 

 E. J. Wheler, and R. B. Greig. 



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