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State has a county council, and the increased land placed under plow is esti- 

 mated at about 20 per cent. 



Philipppine College of Agriculture. — A bill appropriating 125,000 pesos 

 ($62,500) for the establishment of an experiment station in connection with the 

 college was passed by the House of Representatives at its last session, but 

 reached the Senate too late for action. An appropriation was made for the 

 completion of a series of students' houses near the new site of the forest school. 



Beginning with April, 1918, the requirements for entrance to the 6-year course 

 of the college of agriculture have been raised to include two years of high- 

 school work. New forestry courses leading to a degree in forestry have also 

 been announced. 



Changes in Canadian Agricultural Institutions. — Dr. G. Gordon Hewitt has 

 been appointed by the Canadian Government consulting zoologist in addition 

 to his previous duties as Dominion entomologist and chief of the entomological 

 branch of the Department of Agriculture. His new duties will be of an ad- 

 visory nature in matters relating to the protection of birds and mammals and 

 the treatment of noxious species. 



G. H. Cutler, professor of cereal husbandry in the University of Saskatche- 

 wan, has been appointed to a corresponding position in the department of held 

 husbandry of the University of Alberta, beginning July 1. 



F. S. Jacobs, professor of animal husbandry at the Manitoba Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has resigned to take up farming in Alberta. 



Necrology. — Professor Emil von Behring, widely known for his studies in 

 bacteriology and imiyunology, died April 5. Professor von Behring was born 

 in 1854 and received his professional education at the Army Medical College, 

 Berlin, obtaining the doctor's degree in 1878. In 189S he was appointed 

 assistant in the Institute of Hygiene at Berlin and in 1891 in Koch's Institute 

 for Infectious Diseases. He was made professor in 1894 and appointed to 

 the chair of hygiene in the University of Halle, and in the following year 

 he became professor and director of the Institute of Hygiene at Marburg. He 

 was best known as the discoverer of diphtheria antitoxin, but had also worked 

 extensively on tuberculosis and other diseases. 



T. Wilson, inspector of Indian orchards in the entomological branch of the 

 Canadian Department of Agricultiire, was fatally burne<l in a hotel in British 

 Columbia, March 6. He had been notably successful in stimulating interest in 

 fruit growing and horticulture among the Indians, as well as in promoting 

 entomological and botanical work in the region. 



Lieut. H. N. Thompson, weeds and seeds commissioner in the Saskatchewan 

 Department of Agriculture, was killed In action at Vimy Ridge, France. 

 J. A. P. Arden, of the Sidney, B. C, substation, has also been killed in action. 



Miscellaneous. — M. D. Butler and B. C. Sibley, of the Oregon Agricultural 

 College, have been appointed extension specialists in the Nicaragua Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Their work is to conalst mainly of field demonstrations 

 and the introduction of promising crops. 



Nature announces that publication of the Kew Bulletin has been suspended 

 under an order deferring, because of the shortage of paper and other considera- 

 tions, the issue of all Government publications not deemed essential. 



The Agricultural Institute at Alnarp, Sweilen, is planning to erect a building 

 to cost about $20,000, for studies in heredity under the direction of H. Nilsson 

 Bhle, recently appointed professor at Lund. 



According to a recent number of School and Society. Victor E. Rector has 

 feeen elected professor of agriculture at the University of South Carolina. 



