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interest. The standing timber is much too dense, and it does 

 seem as if the inventive Americans, with a wood famine so in- 

 evitable and so near, should be able to conduct our government 

 reservations more economically. 



The department of agricultural education of the University of 

 Wisconsin is expanding its work in the endeavor to use effec- 

 tively and wisely the annual appropriation of $30,000 of the state 

 legislature. Under Professor Karl Hatch plans are being made, 

 according to Science, "for assisting rural and high schools in 

 their efforts to give effective instruction in agriculture. A travel- 

 ing library of lantern slides illustrating various phases of dairying 

 and farming has been provided which will be sent to schools for 

 use. A collection of enlarged photographs of agricultural 

 products and materials has also been prepared. An explanation 

 of the methods of using the bulletins issued by the Experiment 

 Station and the U. S. Department of Agriculture has also been 

 provided, which is designed to make available for instruction the 

 material in these official publications. The college of agricul- 

 ture has arranged to have a number of its facultj^ deliver special 

 lectures on teaching agriculture at county teachers' institutes." 



School Science and Mathematics for January, 19 10, has a short 

 article on studying buds. The author (C. N. W.) says that "the 

 average pupil has an idea that all buds contain flowers and that 

 it may require some little effort to convince him that the leaf bud 

 is far more abundant that any of the others, and that even this 

 does not produce leaves merely, but a young twig as well." The 

 following suggestions are included: (i) The lilac for the tran- 

 sition from scaly parts without to leaflike parts within ; (2) the 

 use of the buckeye instead of the horsechestnut, because of its 

 non-sticky scales and its less woolly leaves ; (3) bud pro- 

 tection by leaf petioles as shown in the common red raspberry, 

 flowering raspberry, and catbrier, where the bud is protected not 

 only to maturity (as in the sycamore) but through the winter b)^ 

 a petiole stub ; (4) accessory buds in some oaks, forsythia, pipe- 

 vine, and peach as well as hickory, walnut, and butternut; (5) 



