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management in tlie Burean of Soils. Mr. (iardnerwas aecomi)anie(l 1)y O. W. Bar- 

 rett, entomologist and botanist of the station, who will spend several weeks in visit- 

 ing institutions of special interest in connection with his work. The station is 

 constructing a small reservoir preparatory to makitig experiments in irrigation for 

 special crops, including lowland rice. A bulletin on the propagation and marketing 

 of oranges in Porto Rico is being published in both iMiglish and Spanish editions. 

 This sul)ject is attracting nuich attention in the island at present, and is one to which 

 the station has given special attention. Thegrowingof orangeson a commercial scale 

 has connnenced since the American occui)ation, and has not yet gone beyond the 

 experimental stage. It is estimated that fully 0,000 acres of budded stock have been 

 set out, and with the employment of suitable methoilsthe (lutlook for successful and 

 pnifitalile orange growing in Porto Rico is thought to be very promising. 



Rhode Island Station. — A. G. Lander, second assistant chemist, has resigned to 

 accept a position in Providence, R. I. 



South Carolina Station. — The veterinarian has undertaken to free the northern part 

 of the State from cattle ticks, with a view to lowering the (luarantine line. 



Wyoming University and Station, — E. E. Slosson, for thirteen years professor of 

 chemistry and chemist to the experiment station, who has been away most of the 

 past year on leave of absence, has definitely severed his connection with the institu- 

 tion. He is at jiresent located in Xew York as literary editor of the Independent. 



New Greenhouses for the Department cf Agriculture. — The location selected for the 

 new Department building will require the tearing down of several ranges of green- 

 houses and frame structures used foi* potting and storage, and will ultimately neces- 

 sitate the removal of the conservatories and all the greenhouses. An appropriation 

 of §25,000 was made by the last Congress for constructing new houses and the removal 

 of old ones to the new location which has been selected at the northwest corner of 

 the Department grounds, adjoining Fourteenth and B streets NW. The site has been 

 prepared by the removal of several large trees and the tilling in of the lily pond. 

 Eight new steel-frame greenhouses are now being constructed, and to these will be 

 added three new ones of wood, the material for which is already on hand, and two 

 comparatively new houses to be moved from their present location. A one-story 

 brick building, about 275 feet in length, running along the north end of the green- 

 houses on B street, will serve as a potting house, carpenter shop, paint shop, and for 

 storage of material, and will provide office rooms for those in charge of the green- 

 house work. The new houses will be used largely for experimental work. They 

 will take the place of those used for the physiological and pathological investigations, 

 the seed and plant introduction work, the storage of plants for Congressional distri- 

 bution, and the propagation of decorative plants. The new buildings will l:)e ready 

 early in September. 



Becent Agricultural Progress. — This is the title of an address delivered by C. C. 

 Janres, Deputy INIinister of Agriculture for Ontario, before the Natural Science. Asso- 

 ciation, and published in a recent issue of the Unkersitij of Toronto Monthly. In this 

 Professor James reviews the material and intellectual progress of agriculture in 

 Ontario, and calls attention to the institutions for agricultural education and the 

 benefits which are resulting from their work. 



Referring to the agricultural college at Guelph, lie says: "The first move made i*.)V 

 improving ( )ntai-io agriculture was the establishing of the agriculture college in 1874. 

 This was at the beginning of the period of depression, when the changed circum- 

 stances of the farmer were beginning to l)e severely felt. For many years the institu- 

 tion struggled against the harsh opposition of one political party and the half-hearted 

 apologies of the other, and a certain disheartening indifference on the part of the 

 farmers themselves. The work, however, was continued faithfully, though under 

 the most discouraging conditions. In 1889 the attendance was 134, of whom 30 can.e 

 from outside of Ontario. In each of the past two years the attendance has been 



