100 EXPEEIMENT STATION BECOED. 



Oregon College and Station.— R. M. Rutledge, secretary to the dean and 

 director, lias accepted a research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin in 

 cooperation with this Department. 



Weekly Forecasts by the Weather Bureau.— A system of special weekly weather 

 forecasts during the crop season has recently been established by the Weather 

 Bureau of this Department for the corn, wheat, and cotton growing regions. 

 These for^asts are telegraphed every Tuesday to certain weather stations in 

 each State and there printed and mailed to such weekly newspapers as express 

 a desire to receive them. Arrangements are also made for telegraphic distribu- 

 tion where desired. 



Agricultural Education and Research in Canada. — The Dominion of Canada 

 has appropriated $3,308,000 for agriculture for the year 1915-16, $785,000 of 

 which is for the maintenance of experiment farms, $550,000 for the develofv- 

 ment of the live-stock industry, $540,000 for the "health of animals," $280,000 

 for exhibitions, $275,000 for the administration and enforcement of the meat 

 and canned-foods act, and $200,000 for the encouragement of cold-storage ware- 

 houses. 



The appropriation includes $150,000 for the development of the dairying in- 

 dustries and the improvement in transportation, sale, and trade of food and 

 other agricultural products, $140,000 to enforce the seed act, $113,000 for the 

 Fruit Branch, $100,000 for the administration and enforcement of the destruc- 

 tive insect and pest act, $25,000 for the administration and carrying out of the 

 provisions of the agricultural-instruction act, $25,000 for the National Biologi- 

 cal Laboratory, $20,000 to assist in the maintenance of the International In- 

 stitute of Agriculture, $20,000 for entomology, $15,000 for publications, and 

 $70,000 for exhibits, repairs, etc. A further $900,000 is allotted under the 

 agricultural-instruction act. 



The new building at the Ontario Veterinary College is now in use. It is a 

 five-story brick structure with 134-foot frontage and 900,000 cu. ft. capacity, 

 and cost about $250,000. It contains several large laboratories, an assembly 

 room seating 500, an infirmary for horses, offices, etc. 



At the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, a new science building 130 by 50 

 feet, with laboratories for chemistry, soil physics, entomology, plant diseases, 

 and home economics, an assembly hall seating 250, offices, classrooms, etc., is 

 nearing completion. J. A. Sinclair has succeeded J. Standish in the veterinary 

 department, and C. A. Good has been appointed assistant entomologist. 



F. L. Drayton has been appointed assistant botanist at the Canadian Experi- 

 mental Farms and George W. Muir assistant animal husbandman. 



In a one-acre turnip-growing contest in three counties of Nova Scotia, par- 

 ticipated in by 30 farm boys between the ages of 15 and 20 years, the yields 

 of the first prize winners in Cumberland County wei"e 1,296 bu., in Colchester 

 County 1,266 bu., and in Pictou County 1,245 bu. Four prizes of $75, $50, $30, 

 and $20 were given in each county. The average yield of field roots in Canada, 

 according to the Canada Yearbook, is about 360 bu. per acre. 



Journal of the Association of Of5.cial Agricultural Chemists. — In accordance 

 with the decision of the association at its 1014 meeting, the Journal of the 

 Association of Official Agricultural Chemists is to be established. This will 

 be issued quarterly and will consist of the proceedings, official and provisional 

 methods of analysis, and reports of investigations of value to food, drug, and 

 feed control chemists which are not available for publication elsewhere. The 

 first number is expected to be ready for distribution in July and will contain 

 the 1913 proceedings. 



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