NOTES. 4 If) 



Agricultural Education in Roumania. — The institutions giving instruction i 

 culture in Roumania, according to an article in Mitteilungen der Deidschen Landwirt- 

 Khqfts-Gesellschaft, for October 28, L905, are mostly included under I heads: I I 

 ejementary agricultural schools offering 2-year courses, 2 6 secondary agricultural 

 schools offering 3-year courses, 3 2 model State farms, and (4 the Central Agri- 

 cultural School, near Bukharest, which stands at the head of the system. The pres- 

 ent attendance at thet lentral Agricultural School is L66. The course of study includes 

 instruction in animal industry, sericulture, and apiculture, and extends over I years, 

 I', years of which are Bpent on the model State farms, located respectively al Laza 

 ami St ik I ina. There are also Bpecial schools for instruction in dairying, horticulture, 

 mulberry growing, phylloxera extermination, and domestic science, the lattei 

 nected with the secondary school at Armasesti. 



Experiment Farms in Natal. — The principal experiment farm in Natal is the < lentral 

 Experiment Farm, established in 1902, at ( ledara, 8^ miles aorthwesl of Pietermaritz- 

 1 hi iv. This farm contains 3,614 acres, upon which 1,493 experiment plats havi 

 in operation during the past year. There have also been 1.174 variety tests of field 

 crops, and 140 acres devoted to ex peri mental orchards. A dairy herd is being devel- 

 oped, and it is proposed to establish schools of agriculture on the farm for both \ . hiiilt 

 men and young women. 



At Winkle Spruit a 500-acre farm was acquired in 1904, and has been devoted to 

 special problems relating to coast agriculture and the cultivation and preparation of 

 semitropical products, especially sugar cane and cotton. A farm of 59 acres at the 

 W'eeneii Irrigation Settlement, and another at Stanger, on the North Coast, have 

 been started this year. 



International Institute of Agriculture. — In an article in the current number of the 

 Fortnighily Review,, noted through Nature, the Marchese Raffaele Cappelli sketches 

 the growth of the ideas which led to the recent international conference on agricul- 

 ture, held at Rome last spring. lie enumerates also the advantages likely to accrue 

 from the International Institute of Agriculture created on that occasion. "At the 

 close of the conference referred to, a protocol was signed by the representatives of 

 all the governments of the world — with the exception of some minor ones — favoring 

 the establishment of the International Institute, and asking the respective govern- 

 ments to adhere to the same. In the opinion of the writer of the article, the insti- 

 tute must aim at regularizing, promoting, and generalizing its internationalism. It 

 must provide for the rapid and general diffusion of knowledge of technical improve- 

 ments in the economics of production. The institute must further undertake tin- 

 task of coordinating the efforts of many < peratives scattered throughout the world, 



so that they may act in harmonious agreement. But most important of all will he 

 the services which the international corporation will he able to render in the field of 

 the economics of distribution." 



Association of Farmers' Institute Workers. — The American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers met at Washington, November 9-11. The meeting was attended 

 by about a hundred delegates and visitors, and was regarded a- a success from both a 

 business and social standpoint. The sessions were presided over by Prof. E. A. Burnett, 

 vice-president, in the absence of President .1. ( !. Hardy. The association was wel- 

 comed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and papers on consolidated public bcI Is 



And on movable agricultural schools were read by Assistanl Secretary W. M. Hays 

 and Prof. John Hamilton, of this Department. There were also papers on insti- 

 tute organization and methods, cooperation with other educational agencies and 

 with the National Department of Agriculture, and upon boys' and girls' institutes. 

 There was a mild protest against the consumption of so much time by reports from 

 the several States ami Provinces, and it was decided to limit this feature in future 

 to one session. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, <J. C. Creelman, of Guelph, 



Ontario; vice-president. \V. \Y. Miller, of Ohio; Becretary-treasurer, John Hamilton, 



