416 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Department of Agriculture; executive committee, the president and secretary- 

 treasurer (ex officio), J. G. Lee of Louisiana, F. H. Hall of Illinois, and W. L. Amoss 

 of Maryland. 



Children's Gardens in New York City. — The children's farm school, inaugurated in 

 1902 by Mrs. Henry Parsons on the site of the proposed DeWitt Clinton Park, has 

 now been incorporated as a permanent feature in the completed park. A definite 

 area has been set apart for gardens, and adjacent to this, in the basement of a brick 

 pergola, are school rooms, some of which are furnished for domestic science work, 

 which is a feature of instruction recpiired of girls who raise vegetables in the garders. 

 During the past season 2,500 children took part in the garden work and raised about 

 90,000 vegetables of different sorts. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. Alonzo D. Melvin, assistant chief of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, has been appointed chief of the Bureau, vice Dr. D. E. Salmon, resigned. 



Among the honors conferred on the occasion of King Edward's birthday was that 

 of commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George upon Dr. William Saunders, 

 director of the Central Experimental Farm, at Ottawa, Canada. 



Director L. H. Bailey, of Cornell, will deliver one of the lectures in the series on 

 Educational Problems, provided by the department of education of the City of 

 New York. 



Charles Robert Wynn-Carringtbn has been appointed president of the board of 

 agriculture in the new British cabinet. 



The death is announced of Prof. Th. Freiherr von der Goltz, director of the Agri- 

 cultural Academy at Poppelsdorf and professor of political economy in the Univer- 

 sity of Bonn. He was a well-known writer upon agricultural topics, especially in 

 the field of farm management, agricultural taxation, and the history of agriculture. 



Miscellaneous. — A regulation recently issued by this Department directs that park- 

 ages containing parasites of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, or parasitized specimens 

 of these moths, when addressed to A. II . Kirkland, the superintendent for sup- 

 pressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths, Boston, Mass., maybe shipped from any 

 European country into the United States, entry to be made through the ports of 

 Boston or New York. 



The Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Session of the Texas Farmers' Congress, a 

 volume of nearly 300 pages, have been received. This congress was held at the Texas 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, July 25-27 last, and was attended by about 

 2,500 farmers. Meetings of 13 State agricultural and horticultural associations were 

 held during the congress, and the minutes of each of these, with the more impor- 

 tant papers, are included in the proceedings. 



The Ohio State University has begun the publication of a series of agricultural col- 

 lege extension bulletins. Vol. 1, No. 1, of this series which was issued in October, 

 1905, contains an article on The Life of a Moth, by F. M. Webster, and one on 

 Planting on Rural School Grounds, by A. B. Graham. 



The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland has estab- 

 lished a seed-testing station at its laboratories in Dublin, which, in addition to mak- 

 ing purity and germination tes's for farmers, offers to identify plants and plant 

 diseases free of charge. 



Fermes el Chdteaux is a new French publication, the first number of which was 

 issued in September. It is similar in plan to Country Life in America and the Country 

 Calendar, and is intended to occupy the same place in French agriculture that these 

 publications do in American agriculture. 



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