816 EXPERIMENT STATION KECOKD. 



Prof. A. I'. Hall, director of the Kotluuiif^ted Experiment Station, is delivering a 

 course of lectures to advanced students in the TTniversity of London on the subject 

 of The Relation of the Composition of the Plant to the Soil in which it Grows. 



Miscellaneous. — A State hygienic laboratory has been organized in Wisconsin in 

 accordance with the legislative enactment of last winter. The lal)oratory is located 

 at Madison, in connection with the bacteriological department of the university, and 

 is under the directorship of Dr. H. L. Russell. G. J. Marquette has been appointed 

 lirst assistant in the new lalioratory. 



By recent legislation certain powers relative to the fishing industry in Great Britain 

 have been transferred to the Board of Agriculture, which will hereafter be known as 

 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. An additional assistant secretary is pro- 

 vided for to have charge of the fishery interests, and \Yalter Edward Archer, formerly 

 chief inspector of fisheries under the Board of Trade, has l:)een appointed to that 

 position. 



Announcement is made that the first meeting of the Society for Horticultural 

 Science will be held in St. Louis during convocation week, in connection with the 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The American Conference on Tuberculosis will be held at Washington, April 4-6, 

 1905, and not at St. Louis in 1904, as previously arranged. This will avoid clashing 

 M'ith the International Congress on Tuberculosis to be held in Paris in 1904. 



An international competition of apparatus for the pasteurization of milk is to be 

 held at the Imperial Agricultural Museum, in St. Petersburg, in the spring of 1904, 

 imder the direction of the minister of agriculture and imperial domains. The 

 competition is open to apparatus of foreign make. Prizes of 1,500 rubles (1772.50) 

 and 500 rubles ($257.50) are offered. 



Our Farmer Youth and the Public Schools is the title of an article by Prof. Willet 

 M. Hays, of Minnesota, in the American Movthly Beriew of lieriews for October. The 

 article deals with the movement to provide better educational facilities for the country 

 boy, especially in the things which pertain to his prospective vocation. The plan of 

 consolidated rural schools and agricultural high schools is described, and, leading out 

 from these, the collegiate courses in agriculture. One of the benefits mentioned which 

 may be expected to result from this system of education for the farmer is successful 

 cooperation in many matters of mutual interest. The possibilities in this direction 

 are illustrated by the cooperative enterprises carried on by associations of graduates 

 from such schools and colleges in a number of States. "With the assistance of a 

 large body of ex-students, organized to promote cooperative business, social, and 

 other merged efforts among farmers, the agricultural college, agricultural high 

 schools, and experiment stations would lie profoundly infiuential in civic as well as 

 in educational affairs." 



An Introduction to Nature Study, by E. Stenhouse, is a new book on the teaching 

 of nature study, or elementary agriculture and rural economy, intended primarily for 

 the orientation and systematic guidance of teachers who take up this subject. It is 

 designed for teachers who are lacking in training for this work and who have not 

 gained from previous books on the subject a true conception of what nature study is. 

 It serves as a guide to the methods to be followed, and gives detailed directions for 

 carrying out simjile experiments within the reach of school-teachers. The book is 

 published in London by Macmillan & Co., and contains over 400 pages. 



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