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made necessary by the weevil. They were 

 originally suggested by a careful study of 

 the life history and habits of the pest, and 

 naturally any improvement that may event- 

 ually he made will be the result of the con- 

 tinuation of that study. They have been 

 tested successfully on a large scale by the 

 division of entomology, as well as by many 

 planters, during two very unfavorable seasons. 

 These methods are in brief as follows: First. 

 Plant early. Second. Cultivate the fields 

 thoroughly. Third. Plant the rows as far 

 apart as experience with the land indicates is 

 feasible, and thin out the plants in the rows 

 thoroughly. Fourth. Destroy, by plowing 

 up, windrowing, and burning, all the cotton 

 stalks in the fields as soon as the weevils be- 

 come so numerous that practically aU the 

 squares and bolls are being punctured. Of 

 greatest advantage is the reducing for the 

 next year of the number of the weevils by the 

 destruction of the plants in the fall. The ad- 

 vantage thus gained is followed by bending 

 every effort toward procuring an early crop the 

 following season. Fifth. While fertilizers 

 are not now used to any considerable extent in 

 cotton producing in Texas, there is no .doubt 

 that they should be; not that the land is poor, 

 but that crops may be procured earlier so as 

 to avoid a considerable degree of injury by the 

 weevil, which is more destructive to later 

 crops. The bulletin contains a description of 

 the weevil, the territory affected, and the plan 

 of the investigations by the division of ento- 

 mology, and gives some of the results of the 

 field work and an experiment showing the 

 damage resulting from favorable hibernating 

 quarters. The bulletin concludes with an ac- 

 count of the legal restrictions concerning the 

 shipment of infested cotton seed and a warn- 

 ing to cotton planters against the inflation of 

 prices of the seed of certain varieties, and the 

 attempts of unscrupulous persons to dispose 

 of common seed from various localities as that 

 of early maturing varieties. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The presidents of seven New York uni- 

 versities and colleges — Syracuse, Rochester, 

 Union, Colgate, St. Lawrence, New Tork, 



University and Hamilton have appeared be- 

 fore the senate finance committee at Albany, 

 to urge the adoption of a substitute instead 

 of the proposed bill appropriating $350,000 

 for the erection of an agricultural hall at 

 Cornell University. 



The supreme court of New Jersey has 

 rendered a mandamus directing the state 

 comptroller to issue a warrant on the state 

 treasury for $80,000 in favor of Rutger's 

 College. The money is due for scholarships 

 established by the legislature, and has re- 

 mained unpaid for a long time on the con- 

 tention that the legislative act relating to 

 scholarships was unconstitutional. 



Mr. Philip H. Walker has given £1,200 to 

 Oxford University, to establish a studentship 

 in pathology. 



The new buildings for the Medical School, 

 the Sedgwick Geological Museum, the Bo- 

 tanical Library and the Law School of Cam- 

 bridge University were opened on March 1. 



On February 19, fire completely destroyed 

 the building at the Ohio State University 

 containing the Departments of Chemistry, 

 Pharmacy, Metallurgy and Mining Engineer- 

 ing. The loss is estimated at $100,000. 



The course in economic geology at The 

 University of Chicago this year consists of 

 a double study for twelve weeks. The course 

 is divided into two parts : ' The Non-metallic 

 Mineral Resources,' and ' The Metallic Min- 

 eral Resources.' The first part was given 

 Dr. E. R. Buckley, director of the Missouri 

 Bureau of Geology and Mines and the second 

 part is being given by Dr. H. Foster Bain, 

 geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



The following have been appointed electors, 

 at the University of Cambridge, to the pro- 

 fessorships indicated: chemistry, Professor J. 

 J. Thomson; anatomy. Sir M. Foster; botany. 

 Professor Clifford Allbutt; Jacksonian (chem- 

 istry). Sir William Ramsay; Downing (medi- 

 cine). Sir M. Foster; zoology, Mr. J. W. 

 Clark; physics. Professor R. B. Clifton; 

 physiology, Professor Clifford Allbutt; sur- 

 gery, Sir Frederick Treves, Bart. ; pathology. 

 Professor R. Muir. 



