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of productions of exceptional literary merit, and is mailed free to all members 

 who have paid the annual fee of one dollar, or a life membership of ten dollars. 

 John Hall, Rochester, N. Y., is Sec -Treas. 



The Board of Control of Experiment Stations met at the O. A. C. 

 Guelph, on the 17th. The members are: President Mills, Prof. Hutt, Messrs. 

 Smith, Pettit, Wellington and Wooherton. 



The Secretary read the report of the year's operations, which he had pre- 

 pared for publication in the Report of the Board of the Minister of Agriculture. 

 After a full criticism and several amendments, it was passed. 



It was also decided to accept the recommendations of the official visitors, 

 and appoint John Mitchell, of Clarksburg, in the Beaver Valley, plum experi- 

 menter. This makes five stations, and it was decided to appoint five more, as 

 soon as suitable new locations can be secured. 



The Experimental Union, which met at the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph, on the 17th and i8th, is an organization which is rapidly growing in 

 influence. Composed largely of students and ex-students of the College, it has 

 some of the most progressive farmers of Ontario among its active members, 

 and the results of careful tests, noted by such men, added to those conducted 

 by the able Secretary, Mr. Zavitz, on the College farm, must be of great value. 



The presence of Mr. P. B. Perry, of Hudson, O , added great interest to 

 the occasion. His talk on " Clover Culture," included a most interesting 

 recital of practical experience, bearing out the discoveries of science. Once a 

 schoolmaster, he had purchased an old run down farm of fifty acres ; but by 

 growing a few acres of clover on it every year, and plowing under the second 

 crop, he worked that farm into its present valuable condition. So fertile had it 

 become, under this treatment, that it would now produce 200 bushels of potatoes 

 to the acre, or 50 bushels of wheat. His regular rotation of crop was clover, 

 potatoes, wheat. 



The Nova Scotia School of Horticulture will re open on Monday, 

 Jan. 7th, 1895, with a four months' course in horticulture, especially adapted to 

 young farmers and farmer's sons who can attend during the winter months. 

 The lectures during the course are of such a nature as can be fully understood. 

 No examinations required for admission. The instruction will cover such 

 subjects as : formation of soils — their treatment, orcharding, vegetable gardening, 

 nursery work, diseases of plants and their remedy, injurious insects and their 

 treatment. The modern facilities in greenhouse, root cellar and plant house 

 afford means for practical work in grafting, budding, pruning, seeding, cutting, 

 etc., carrying on all kinds of work connected with horticulture on the farm. 

 Students are asked to bring with them any problems along the line of horticul 

 ture, specimens of diseases, insects, soil, etc., for study in laborator)' with 

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