forward with interest to the pubUcation of the results of Mr. 

 Van Dine's recent investigations. 



Not only do the Australian Colonies give empirical advice 

 through the medium of their excellent official agricultural 

 periodicals, but they are constantly seeking new means to offer 

 individual farmers assistance in the development of the resources 

 of their country. The Agricultural Gazette of New South 

 Wales for December, 1905, gives a list of Government Stud Bulls 

 which are available for lease by Agricultural Societies or Dairy 

 Farmers. The list contains four Shorthorn pedigree bulls, four 

 Jersey, seven Guernsey, one Red Poll, two Ayrshire, tw^o Kerry, 

 two Dexter Kerry and one Holstein. The animals are hired out 

 by the Government at a nominal sum for periods of six months 

 tmder certain prescribed regulations. Other bulls are for service 

 at the various State Farms, where also pure bred pigs are bred 

 and sold. The system has been in operation in New South 

 Wales for some time, and a more practical way of improving the 

 live stock of the country would be difficult to devise. 



A Title Page, Table of Contents, List of Authors and Illustra- 

 tions, and General Index to Volume II accompanies this number. 



THE PROFESSION OF FORESTRY. 



From an interesting article by President C. W. Eliot, of Har- 

 vard University, appearing in Science, on Dec. 15, 1905, are 

 copied the following paragraphs as indicative of the fact that 

 forestry is recognized as having a place among the professions. 



* H; * ''The large and strong universities in America are 

 alike in their general purpose to provide good training for all the 

 professions or intellectual occupations. It was two endowed in- 

 stitutions — Harvard and Yale — that started scientific schools 

 almost simultaneously in 1846-7; and this purpose characterizes 

 the great endowed institutions to-day quite as strongly as it does 

 the state universities. To this general proposition there is only 



