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are to be given the present winter, l)egiiuiin<r the latter part of January, in \vhieh 

 several professors from the Ontario Agricultural College will assist. 



The stock of the farm has recently been increased by the purchase of several high- 

 grade Ilerefords. A new poultry house has been built during the past season, and 

 1,200 chicks were raised on the farm, 1,000 being fattened in crates. These were 

 sold for 18 cts. a pound, or about $1.50 per pair. 



Essex County Laboratories. — The new county buildings at Chelmsford, England, 

 erected at a cost of about 860,000 by the Essex County Council, were formally opened 

 recently by the Earl of Onslow, president of the Board of Agriculture. They are 

 under the control of the Essex Education Committee, and comprise chemical, phys- 

 ical, and biological laboratories and class rooms, as well as agricultural and horticul- 

 tural museums and libraries, and are designed to afford opportunities for systematic 

 instruction in agriculture and horticulture, as well as in pure science. 



Rooms are provided for the examination of soils, manures, seeds, etc., and for other 

 scientific work in connection with agriculture and horticulture. There is also a large 

 dairy in the basement for instruction in butter and cheese making and the treatment 

 of milk. In connection with the dairy school a short course of one week's duration 

 will be given in milking and the proper treatment of milk for market. There is a 

 school garden a short distance from the buildings which contains 3 acres and is pro- 

 vided with a potting shed and hothouses. 



In addition to the more purely agricultural and horticultural courses of lectures and 

 practical work, classes are held in chemistry, physics, and biology, largely for the 

 training of teachers. The County Council offers several scholarships and a number 

 of the classes are free to selected candidates, who must be residents of Essex County. 

 The influence which the improved facilities will exert on local agricultural and hor- 

 ticultural affairs was spoken of by Mr. E. N. Buxton, chairman of the Essex Educa- 

 tion Committee, in an address delivered at the inaugural proceedings. 



Normal Training Classes for Rural Teachers. — The ten county normal training classes 

 provided for by the last legislature of Michigan have been located by the State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction in the following towns: Evart, Charlevoix, 

 Cadillac, Standish, Kalkaska, Mancelona, Ithaca, Pontiac, Saint Johns, and Port 

 Huron. One-year and two-year courses are isrovided, and in the course of study sug- 

 gested by the Superintendent of Public Instruction elementary agriculture is required 

 in both semesters of the one-year course and the first year of the two-year course, 

 and is elective throughout the second year of the two-year course. Applicants for 

 admission to either of the courses must subscribe to a declaration that it is their pur- 

 pose to engage in teaching in the rural schools or in the lower grades of the graded 

 schdols in the State. 



Girls' Industrial College. — According to a note in Gdrden'ing, the Girls' Industrial 

 College of Texas, which was opened to students in September last, will make a 

 special feature of horticulture and floriculture. Three new greenhouses 18 liy 40 ft. 

 have just been completed, and will be gradually stocked with an assortment of bed- 

 ding and decorative jjlants. A small nursey has also been established, and a course 

 of instruction in growing, grafting, budding, etc., will be afforded students who 

 <lesire it. The campus of the institution embraces about 70 acres, a large part of 

 which will be devoted to forestry and landscape gardening. 



A New General Index. — A general index to the Ilygienisdic Rundschau, Volumes I 

 to X, 1S!)1-1900, has just been issued by the editor, Dr. R. Thiele. It comprises 

 author and subject indexes, an index to original contrilnitions to the jom'nal, and 

 lists of books and of illustrations, and makes a volume of 4.32 pages. As the Jiund- 

 scIkiii. is largely an abstract journal, and includes in its scope many subjects relating 

 to agricultural science, this general index to its first ten volumes may often prove 

 helpful to station workers in bacteriology, animal diseases, etc. A large number of 



