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March. The car is proving the most efficient and popular method of instruction 

 and demonstration yet undertaken. During the past month the number of 

 inquiries for information received from farmers, ranchmen, and stockmen lias 

 been noticeably greater than heretofore. 



Experimental Work in Dairying in Pennsylvania. — The Dairy Division of 

 this Department is carrying on experimental work in creamery problems at a 

 plant at Grove City, Pa., where a two-story building, 36 by 70 feet, has been 

 erected by a local stock company. The first floor of the building is used for 

 practical creamery operations and the second for laboratories. In addition 

 to butter investigations the work will include studies of the utilization of 

 by-products by the manufacture of casein, cottage cheese, milk sugar, con- 

 densed skim milk, etc., and the disposal of creamery wastes. 



Canadian Experimental Farms. — The new building for the division of cereals 

 and agrostology at the Central Experimental Farm to replace the structure 

 burned last July is nearing completion. It is a two-story and basement building 

 40 by 90 feet. The main floor is used for the handling of seed grain, while the 

 second floor contains milling and baking rooms, a plant inspection room, and 

 quarters for the work in agrostologj". 



Manitoba Agricultural College. — A. .1. Galbraith and William Southworth, of 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, have been appointed si)ecialists in soil survey 

 and plant breeding respectively. F. S. Jacobs, until recently editor of the Farm 

 Journal, has been appointed professor of animal husbandry, and E. W. Wood, 

 a county agent of North Dakota, lecturer in animal husbandry. 



Closing of Agricultural College at TTckfield, England. — The agricultural col- 

 lege at Uckfield, England, has been cIosinI by the East Sussex County Council 

 on the ground of economy. This action is strongly deprecated in a recent issue 

 of Nature, which calls attention to some of the difliculties which would be con- 

 fronted in reopening the institution. The point is also made that the college 

 bad received considerable grants from the Briti.sh Treasury, so that " the very 

 important question is raised whether an etlucational committee of a county 

 council ought to have the power to close an institution subsidized by the State 

 and whether the State ought not to have the power of veto." 



Agricultural Instruction for Interned Soldiers. — According to a note in Nature 

 courses of instruction in agriculture liave Ik-cu begun at Harderwyk, Holland, 

 among the interned Belgian soldiers, and with Prof. Antoine of Louvain Uni- 

 versity in charge. Lectures are being given iu elementary botany, chemistry, 

 surveying, general agriculture, plant diseases, agricultural machinery, and 

 zootechny, and courses in dairying, horticulture, and forestry are contemplated. 



Animal Disease Investigations of the Rockefeller Institute. — A tract of 400 

 acres of land has been purchased near Princeton, N. J., at a cost of about 

 $100,000, and a laboratory for the study of animal diseases is under construc- 

 tion with a view to completion during 1916. It is expected that about 

 $1,000,000 will ultimately be required for the construction and equipment of 

 the laboratory. The research work is now being carried on at Princeton 

 University under the direction of Dr. Theobald Smith, with Dr. Karl Ten 

 Troeck as associate in the department of animal pathology and Dr. R. Werner 

 Marchand as assistant. 



American Society of Agricultural Engineers. — The ninth annual meeting of 

 this society was held iu Chicago December 28-30, 1915. The presidential ad- 

 dress by H. H. Musselman, of the Michigan College and Station, pointed out the 

 need for an agricultural engineer's handbook to supply data on the ix)wer 

 requirements of farm machinery, lighting, and heating problems, water supply, 

 and sewage disposal. A committee was appointed to organize available mate- 

 rial into such a handbook. 



