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George W. Curtis, formerly director of the Texas Station, has been appointed 

 special agent in the Bureau of Plant Industry. He will be connected with demon- 

 stration work which is to be carried on upon a large number of private farms under 

 the appropriation for the cotton-boll weevil investigations. 



Charles W. Walker, recently connected with the office of the State entomologist 

 of New York, has been appointed assistant in the Division of Entomology, and will 

 take part in the work in Texas against the cotton-boll weevil. 



ISIatthew Steel, of the New Mexico Agricultural College, has been appointed a 

 scientific aid in this Office. 



Miscellaneous. — We note from Science that the University of Michigan has received 

 from Arthur Hill, of Saginaw, a tract of 80 acres of land near Ann Arbor, to serve as 

 an experiment farm for the forestry department, to be known as the Saginaw Forest 

 Farm. It will provide for an arboretum of all useful forest trees suited to Michigan, 

 demonstration areas for seed-bed and nursery stock, model plantations of forest trees, 

 and si)ecial experiments in forestry. 



The American Agriculturist has begun the • publication of a series of articles on the 

 work and results of the experiment stations, with a view to calling attention to the 

 great work which these institutions have been and are doing for the advancement of 

 agriculture and the improvement of farm practice, as well as in contributing to the 

 scientific basis of agriculture. 



A $100,000 cassava starch factory is to be built at Lake City, Fla., by a Chicago 

 firm. The citizens of the town provided the site and subscribed for a large block of 

 stock. The mill will have a daily capacity of 120 tons of raw material, and is expected 

 to be a great aid to farmers in the locality by furnishing a market for cassava roots. 



The French committee of the International Dairy Association at a meeting in 

 November, 1903, elected M. Legliidic honorary president of an international dairy 

 congress to be held in Paris in 1905. The programme of the congress will provide 

 for five sections, as follows: Production of milk; dairy technology (milk, butter, 

 cheese, derivatives, and by-products); dairy hygiene; examination of milk (scien- 

 tific researches, analyses adulterations, etc.), and dairy economics (commerce, 

 transportation, and legislation). Declarations of membership, accompanied by a 

 membership fee of 10 francs, should be made to the Comite Fran^ais de la Federation 

 Internationale, 61 Boulevard Barbes, Paris. 



The supreme court of New Jersey has issued a mandamus directing the State to pay 

 to Rutgers College the sum of $80,000. This is rendered in connection with the 

 decision of the constitutionality of a law enacted by the State establishing scholar- 

 ships in the scientific school, which includes the agricultural course. These scholar- 

 ships have remained unpaid for some time on the contention that the legislative act 

 was unconstitutional. 



By the terms of the will of Hudson Hoagland, who died in New York on January 

 30, the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, of Hampton, Virginia, is to 

 receive a fund of $100,000. 



In a recent number of Oardeners' Chronicle, it is stated that the new potato Eldorado 

 has been sold at the rate of $1,000 per pound. This jiotato was recently originated by 

 a large seed firm at Essex, England, and is supposed to be very resistant to certain 

 potato diseases prevalent in England. 



The government of New Brunswick, through its Department of Agriculture, is 

 preparing to operate a model orchard in each one of the counties of that province. 

 Apples will be chiefly grown and some plums. These orchards will be located on 

 private farms and cultivated by farmers under the direction of the Department of 

 Agriculture. It appears that this kind of orchard work has been successfully intro- 

 duced into Nova Scotia, and it is believed that much good to the fruit-growing 

 industry will result from it in New Brunswick. 



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