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of 1- cows Is to be doubled, and a model dairy installed. The institution is no\* 

 Belling its milk to people in the neighborhood, and with the new equipment it ig 

 proposed to handle and put up this milk according to the most modern sanitary 

 methods. An attempt will also be made to improve the dairy stock by the importa- 

 tion of a blooded bull from this country. 



Thoroughbred swine are also to be introduced, and 3 stallions. One of these 

 Btallions will be kept at the university, one at the experiment Btation, and tin- other 

 at some convenient point on the south side of the island. Slips sufficient for the 

 planting of WO acres of sisal will arrive within a short time, and will be distributed 

 to persons who wish to experiment with the growing of this fiber plant. I o numer- 

 ous ways the propaganda for the improvement of conditions will be carried on w ith 

 the cooperation of the Federal experiment station at Mayaguez, whose pioneer work 

 has paved the way for this more popular work about the island. 



Conference on Texas Fever Tick. — In connection with the annual Bession of the 

 Southern State- Association of Commissioners of Agriculture, held at Richmond, 

 Novel i iher 22-24, a conference was called of station directors, entomologists, veterina- 

 rians, representatives of this Department, and others interested in the question of 

 cattle tick extermination. The purpose of the conference was to formulate definite 

 recommendations to he presented to the commissioners of agriculture, looking to 

 concerted action and cooperation in the extermination of the cattle tick through the 

 South. 



Reclamation Funds. — The estimated amount to lu- covered into the Treasury to the 

 credit of the reclamation fund for the past fiscal year is, according to Forestry and 

 Irrigation, 14,757,978.87. The largesl amount. $870,290.01, was from the sale of 

 public lands in North Dakota, followed by $675,325.60 from Oregon, $572,633.54 

 from Oklahoma, and $522,203.50 from Washington. The amounts derived from 

 other States were as follows: Arizona S47.441t.rC. California $361,557.87, Colorado 

 $270,060.25, Idaho $370,272.90, Kansas $30,478.36, Montana $350,031.30, Nebraska 

 $120,786.59, Nevada $12,157.93, New Mexico $85,602.58, South Dakota $174,448.96, 

 Utah $50,716.82, and Wyoming $243,962.94. 



Miscellaneous. — An account of the hlyllwild School of Forestry is given in the 



October issue of Forestry <<n<l Irrigation. This is a summer scl 1. conducted for 



a term of two months in the San Jacinto Mountains, in Riverside County, (a!. 

 Several permanent buildings have been erected, and lecturers and instructor- are in 

 attendance upon the course. Among those who lectured in the course the past sum- 

 mer were A. V. Stubenrauch, of the California College and Station, and T. P. Lukens 

 and A. 4". Searle, of the Forest Service of this Department. 



With the inauguration of a 4-year course of study at the agricultural high school of 

 Vienna, the right lias been given the school to ••outer the doctor's degree {"Doktor 

 <L /• Bodenkultur" i. Th.- course was formerly a 3-year one, and there has long been 

 an effort to raise the grade of work done by the school. The present action place- it 

 on a par with the universities and technical high schools. 



The enrollment of agricultural students at the University of Leipsic, according to 

 a recent note in Fuhling's Landmirtschaftlich Zeitung, is now 152. Of these students 

 28 come from the Kingdom of Saxony. 44 from the Kingdom of Prussia, L'l from the 

 remaining States <>f the German- Empire, L5 from Austria-Hungary, 32 from Russia, 

 11 from other European countries, and 1 from North America. One hundred stu- 

 dents entered the college for the 1905-6 session. 



The inaugural address at the opening of the present session of the Southeastern 

 Agricultural College at Wye. England, was delivered by Prof. II- Marshall Ward, of 

 the University of Cambridge, and was upon the subject Botany and Agriculture. 



A recent number of Fuhling's Landwrtschaftliche Z<<tn lt >j announces the establish- 

 ment of an agricultural winter school at Weener, East Friesland, Prussia, with Mr. 

 Schroer as director. 



