906 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



reprint from the Annual Report of the 3Iissouri State Board of Agricuhure for 1902, 

 and is based upon the author's observation and study during recent travels in Hol- 

 land, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and other European countries. Among 

 the lessons which the author suggests may be drawn from European agriculture are 

 greater care in the conservation, handling, and application of farm manures, economy 

 in feeding, and the utilization of all the products of the farm, inclu<;ling many which 

 in this country are often regarded as waste products. 



The Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies has begun the publi- 

 cation of a fortnightly review, to be known as Agricultural Keivs, the first copy of 

 which appeared late in April. The puVjlication is a quarto sheet of 16 pages. Its 

 object is to supply, in popular form, information of an agricultural character suited 

 to the requirements of the "West Indies, witi. a view to instructing and assisting all 

 classes and to promoting the agricultural interests of the colonies. It will l_>e sold 

 through the local agents of the department at Id. per number, or 4s. 4d. per annum. 

 The initial number contains contriljuted articles on cane cultivation, diseases and 

 insects, preparation of commercial papain, and cassava poisoning; agricultural news 

 items, original and quoted, on tojncs of interest to the islands; department news; a 

 number of book notices; a directory of the agricultural institutions in the West 

 In lies, and maa-ket quotations. 



• Anew semimonthly journal for dying and textile chemistry {Zeitschrift fi'ir Farben- 

 und Textil-Chemie) appeared at the beginning of this year. It is devoted to color and 

 textile chemistry, including the related subjects of organic chemical industry and 

 the textile industry. The journal is edited l;)y Dr. A. Buntrock, of Karlsruhe, with 

 the assistance of a large number of English and European collaborators. 



Nature notes that the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee has appointed A. D. 

 Hall, principal of the Agricultural College at Wye, to succeed the late Sir Joseph 

 Henry Gilbert as director of the Rothamsted Experiment Station. ^Ir. Hall is a 

 graduate of Oxford, and has distinguished himself by his successful development of 

 Wye College as a center of agricultural education. Although little known in the 

 fi/^ld of agricultural research, Mr. Hall's .selection to succeed Dr. Gilbert appears to 

 meet with approval. 



The German Association of Naturalists and Physicians will hold its seventy-fourth 

 annual congress at Carlsbad September 21-28. As on former occasions, papers may 

 be presented in any of the modern languages and foreign visitors will be accorded 

 the same privileges as the members of the association. It is estimated that between 

 6,000 and 8,000 men of science and physicians will attend the meeting of this famous 

 association. 



According to a note in Forestry and Irrigation, the officials of the Illinois Central 

 Railroad have decided to begin planting catalpa trees along their lines from Chicago 

 to New Orleans, a distance of about 900 miles, for the purpo.se of producing railroad 

 ties. The contract for the planting has already been let. 



Science states that a committee has been formed, under the presidency of Professor 

 von Zittel, for the erection in ^Munich of a memorial to the late Prof. 3Iax von 

 Pettenkofer. 



A recent number of The Tradesman reports that there will soon be in operation at 

 Kenilworth Plantation, Louisiana, a mill for making wrapping paper out of bagasse. 

 This is stated to be the fir.st mill of its kind in Louisiana, although one has been in 

 operation for some time at Sugarland, Texas. The mill will have a capacity of about 

 25 tons of paper per day. 



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