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prit-e on easy terms of payment. Expensive irrigation works have been constructed 

 in recent years from which much permanent good is anticipated; money has been 

 advanced by the loan commissioners for waterworks and other objects of public 

 utilitv, and effective measures have been taken to improve the l)reed of the larger 

 island cattle. 



A recent number of Gdrdcalnf/ states that a school for the training and mstruction 

 of women in practical horticulture has been established at (xodesberg, on the Rhine. 



According to statistics for the present academic year, of the 37,813 students matricu- 

 lated at the 21 universities of tiie German Empire, 35,082 are German and 2,731, or 

 7.2 per cent of the total number, are foreigners, of whom 276 are Americans. Of the 

 foreigners 199 are students of forestry and 146 of agriculture. 



The Sixth International Zoological Congress will l)e held at Berne, Switzerland, 

 August 14 to 19, 1904. 



A departmental committee has been appointed to inquire into the workings of the 

 British fertilizers and feeding-stuffs act of 1893. The committee is now engaged in 

 taking testimony on this subject. 



The directors of the Highland and Agricultural Society have under advisement the 

 inauguration of a series of agricultural motor implement trials, with substantial 

 prizes to encourage the perfection of this class of machinery. 



It is reported in Oesterreichische Chemikcr-ZeUung that the younger potash estalj- 

 lishments of Germany are planning an independent combination, with headquarters 

 either at Hamburg or Berlin, repeated efforts of the minister of commerce having 

 failed to secure them concessions from the older organization. 



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