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strengthen this branch of the work at the university so far as funds at its disposal 

 will permit. 



Nature states that among the honors recently conferred by King Edward VII upon 



theoccasi E his birthday was that of ('. M. <-. (Companion of the Order of St. 



.Michael) upon James W. Robertson, late commissioner of agriculture and dairying 

 of tin- 1 dominion <>f ( lanada. 



William II. Kelley, chi.f veterinarian of the New York State department of agri- 

 culture, was a delegate for the United Stat.- to the International Veterinary Congress 

 held at Budapest, Hungary, September '■> to 9. 



Miscellaneous.— The tirst annual meetingpf the I ndiahoma Farmers' Union, includ- 

 ing nienihers from the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, was held at Tishomingo, 

 I. T., .Inly L8-21. The programme included addresses by J. A. Bonsteel and W. J. 

 Spillman, of this Department; .1. B.Thoburn, secretary of the Oklahoma Board of Agri- 

 culture, and I'. G. Holden, professor of agronomy at the Iowa Agricultural College. 



The Idaho Industrial Institute at Weiser, Ida., has recently erected and equipped 

 a dairy building to handle the milk from a dairy of 40 cows, and is constructing a 

 reservoir for irrigation purposes which will cost about So, 000. 



The last report of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon, advocates 

 the establishment of a cotton experiment station in the dry region of north-central 

 Ceylon, to he supplied with water from irrigation tanks. The soil is said to be 

 excellentand the locality well suited to Sea Island cotton. The establishment of 

 such a station is pronounced of primary importance. 



Two numbers have been received of the Kansas Agricultural Review, a monthly 

 magazine published by the students of the Kansas Agricultural College and devoted 

 to agricultural education, college news, and notes concerning the alumni of the insti- 

 tution. 



According to a recent note in Science, an agricultural conference was held at Aber- 

 ystwyth, Wales, the third week in June, to aid in extending and developing the 

 work of the agricultural department of the University College of Wales. The college 

 is now receiving from the board of agriculture S4,000 for its agricultural department, 

 $1,000 for a new farm opened on the day of the conference, and one-sixth of the 

 "residue grant" to the County Councils for the counties connected with it. The 

 County Councils were asked to appoint delegates to another conference to be held 

 in ( October to consider details of a scheme of organization for the agricultural depart- 

 ment of the college. 



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