notes. 927 



general repairs, labor, and supplies, $20,000; special work in animal industry, 

 $12, : library equipment and care, $800 ; general construction, $8,000; coop- 

 erative experiments, $10,000; forestry Investigations, $10,000; total, $106,900. 



Porto Rico Station. — Winthrop V. Tower, ;i graduate of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, where be has been for the past two years pursuing post- 

 graduate work in botany and entomology, has been appointed plant pathologist 

 and entomologist to the station. 



Rhode Island Station. — F. L. Xeaw, a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, 1 1 ; i s been made assistant in chemistry in connection with the soil inves- 

 tigations, and J. Frank Morgan, ;i graduate of St. Lawrence University, assist- 

 ant chemist to the station. Alton \V. Richardson, of the senior class of the 

 University of .Maine has been appointed assistant agro nist. 



Washington Station. — Albert <;. Craig, instructor in horticulture a1 the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College, lias been appointed assistant horticulturist, vice D. C. 

 Mooring, who resigned in January to accepl a similar position in the Mississippi 

 College and Station. Extensive experiments with cereals are planned for the 

 coming year, especially with wheat, to which C. \V. Lawrence will devote bis 

 entire time. 



Better-Farming- Special in New England. — The first attempt to introduce this 

 form of university extension work into New England took the form of a so- 

 called "better-farming special" train, which was run through Massachusetts, 

 New Hampshire, and Vermont during April. The idea was fathered by an agri- 

 cultural publication, which made the arrangements with the railroads, and was 

 carried out by the colleges and stations in the three States. A week was spent 

 in each State, the train being each week under the auspices of the college and 

 station in which State it was running. The train consisted of four cars, which 

 were equipped with apparatus and exhibits illustrative of farm crops, ferti- 

 lizers, animal husbandry, dairying, horticulture, entomology, and forestry. One- 

 third of each car was given up to the exhibits, the other two-thirds forming the 

 audience room. Forty-minute stops were made at stations along the route, the 

 first twenty minutes being devoted to two terse ten-minute talks in each car. fol- 

 lowed by twenty minutes for viewing the exhibits and asking questions. The 

 undertaking was pronounced a great success from start to finish. It is esti- 

 mated that about 25,000 people visited the train during its course, and a large 

 number of people were reached who had hitherto had little knowledge of the 

 work of the colleges and stations. 



Sugar Experiment Station in Peru. — The Peruvian Government has estab- 

 lished an experiment station for sugar cane at Lima, under the auspices of the 

 department of the interior. The station is organized under the directorship of 

 T. F. Sedgwick, formerly of the Hawaii Station, who writes: " We already have 

 land and a good laboratory. The work will consist in analyses of soils, ferti- 

 lizers, sugar-house products, carrying on held experiments, and giving such aid 

 to the planters as the station may be able to give." 



Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture. — The new buildings 

 for this college were formally opened February 28 by Lord Balfour, of Bur- 

 leigh. These buildings, according to Nature, arc in Green Square. Edinburgh, 

 and consist of well-equipped chemical, botanical, and bacteriological laboratories 

 and lecture rooms, and class rooms for the various other subjects taught in the 

 college. Their cost has amounted to more than $45,000. 



International Association of Colonial Agronomy. — According to a note in 

 Nature, it has been decided to establish an International Association of Colonial 

 Agronomy, to promote the scientific study of the problems of colonial and trop- 

 ical agriculture and of the commercial utilization of natural products. The 



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