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advantageous." This movement for experiment stations is said to have aroused a 

 good deal of public interest. 



County Instructors in Agriculture in Ireland. — The Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland announces that it is prepared to assist county com- 

 mittees in securing instructors in agriculture, poultry keeping, horticulture and the 

 management of bees, and butter making, one instructor in each subject for each 

 county. The duties of these instructors will be to deliver courses of lectures, visit 

 farms, conduct experiments and demonstrations, assist in teaching agricultural classes 

 provided for by the department, correspond with farmers, and otherwise advise them. 



Nebraska Boys' and Girls' Associations. — The boys' and girls' corn and cooking contest 

 held at the school of agriculture, Lincoln, December 14 and 15 (E. S. R., 17, p. 310), 

 was attended by over 500 boys and girls, many of whom were accompanied by their 

 parents or teachers. The corn contest included over 200 exhibits of corn grown by 

 the boys, and the cooking contest showed many articles of cooked food prepared by 

 the girls. Two permanent State organizations were formed, designated, respectively, 

 the Boys' Agricultural Association and the Girls' Domestic Science Association, with 

 the superintendent of public instruction ex-officio manager of both. 



The programme of the meeting included addresses by a number of men and women 

 of prominence, among whom were Gov. J. K. Mickey, State Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction J. L. McBrien, Chancellor E. B. Andrews of the university, Prof. John 

 Hamilton of this Office, Prof. E. A. Burnett, and other officers of the college and 

 station, State normal schools and other educational institutions. The crowning 

 event was a corn banquet at which 700 plates were spread. 



National Dairy Show. — The National Dairy Show is to be held at Chicago, February 

 15-24, under the auspices of the National Creamery Buttermakers' Association. 

 The large Coliseum building will be used for the show, which will include exhibits 

 of milk and other dairy products, dairy manufactures, machinery and accessories, 

 and materials "of every character in which the producer, the manufacturer, and 

 the consumer of dairy products are interested in any way whatever." There will 

 also be a showing of dairy cattle. 



Miscellaneous. — P. L. Hutchinson, for several years connected with the Louisiana 

 Sugar Experiment Station at New Orleans, and since last summer a special field agent 

 of this Department in connection with the collection of cotton statistics, died at Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., January 2. 



George F. Thompson, editor in the Bureau of Animal Industry, and a writer on 

 Angora and milch goats, died of pneumonia, January 6. 



C. C. Georgeson, in charge of the Alaska stations, has returned to Washington for 

 a few weeks. 



A. V. Stubenrauch, of the California College of Agriculture and Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has resigned to accept a position as special agent in fruit transportation and 

 storage in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. His appointment took 

 effect January 1. 



Lyman J. Briggs, of the Bureau of Soils, was transferred at the beginning of the 

 year to the Bureau of Plant Industry, where he will serve as physicist in connection 

 with investigations in vegetable physiology. 



Ernest H. Bessey, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been placed in charge of 

 the subtropical laboratory of the Bureau at Miami, Florida, vice P. H. Rolfs, who, 

 as previously noted, has become director of the Florida Experiment Station. The 

 laboratory will hereafter be run in close cooperation with the Florida Station. 



Major D. Prain, director of the Botanical Garden at Calcutta, has been appointed 

 director of the Kew Gardens, succeeding Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, retired. 



Burton E. Livingston, of the Bureau of Soils, has resigned to accept a position in 

 the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, at Tucson, Arizona. 



Samuel Fraser, assistant agronomist at the Cornell University and station, has been 

 appointed soil expert in the Bureau of Soils. 



