600 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol. 43, 1920] 



Porto Rico Federal Station. — W. A. Mace, agricultural technologist, has 

 resigned to accept a coniniercial position in Havana, Cuba. J. P. Griffith, plant 

 breeder, has resigned to take up further studies. 



Rhode Island College. — ^The horticultural building was completely destroyed 

 by fire August 22, causing a loss estimated at $6,000. The greenhouses and 

 other adjoining buildings were saved. 



Virginia Truck Station. — Fred W. Geise, assistant physiologist In the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been appointed 

 associate pathologist and entered upon his new duties August Ifi. 



Wisconsin University.^ — P. W. Boutwell, assistant professor of agricultural 

 chemistry, has resigned to become associate professor of chemistry at Beloit 

 College. 



National Demonstration Farm in Great Britain. — The British Ministry of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries purchased in 1919 an estate of over 1,5(X) acres of 

 typical heath land at Methwold in Norfolk. This estate is to be developed as a 

 national demonstration farm, chiefly to show what can be done with poor heath 

 land by the adoption of good husbandry methods. About 200 acres have already 

 been reclaimed, and at the present time, 1,043 acres are under cultivation, 43 

 acres are in grass, and the remainder in waste heath. Liming and the incor- 

 poration of organic matter are the chief processes to be utilized. 



Tobacco growing on a comparatively large scale is to be attempted on the 

 farm, as are also stock raising, poultry keeping, and swine husbandry on the 

 open air system. 



Central Agricultural Council in Denmark. — The various technical and co- 

 operative organizations concerned with Danish agriculture have recently or- 

 ganized a Central Agricultural Council, known as the Landbnigsraadet, to 

 promote their general interests. In addition to duties of a purely economic 

 natui-e, this new institution also intends to disseminate information about 

 foreign agriculture, especially that of a statistical nature, partly by furnishing 

 prominent farmers directly with this data and partly through instructive 

 articles in Danish agricultural periodicals. 



Agricultural Conditions in Greece. — A recent number of Breeders' Gazette 

 contains an article by Dr. Geo. Bouyoucos, of the Michigan College and Sta- 

 tion, regarding agricultural conditions found in Greece by the AgricuHural 

 Commission to that country headed by the late Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins. 



Soil analyses indicated abundant amounts of potash and magnesium in prac- 

 tically all the soils, and lime was lacking in only a few cases. Nitrogen and 

 phosphorus, however, were present in insuflicient amounts in nearly all the 

 soils of Greece, and especially those of the long cropped lowlands and plains. 

 This deficiency is so serious that much of the land has become extremely 

 unproductive, many plains soils often not returning the seed sown. Cultural 

 methods are also for the most part quite primitive. 



About 200,000 copies of a booklet prepared by Dr. Hopkins were distx-ibuted 

 among the farmers, advocating especially an increased use of phosphates and 

 the growth of legumes instead of fallowing. Recommendations were also made 

 to the Government for establishing a high gi-ade agricultural college and 

 experiment station in connection with the University of Greece, the teaching 

 of agriculture in the high schools, a comprehensive soil survey, and the main- 

 tenance of soil test fields. The obtaining by the Government of supplies of 

 acid phosphate and finely ground raw rock phosphate for sale at reasonable 

 prices was also advocated. 



o 



^1 



