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therefore a phenomenon of protoplasmic activity, not a mere 

 result of hygroscopic tension." 



In Science (July 8) Albert Schneider referring to the botanical 

 garden symposium papers (A. A. A. S. of Boston) pleads for 

 "practical significance" in the experimental work of botanical 

 gardens; he also insists that in such gardens and experiment 

 stations the major part of the work should be establishing and 

 developing new plant industries. 



Recently a Montclair (N. J.) magistrate imposed a twenty 

 dollar fine on an electric light employe who cut the tops from two 

 trees to make room for wires. Such conscious and wilful law- 

 breaking is too rarely thus treated; and consequently, as the 

 New York Tribune says, "with all our Arbor Day formalities 

 and all our praiseworthy talk of conservation, the destruction of 

 trees as the victims of laziness or sordidness goes on at a dis- 

 creditable rate." 



Governor Hadley of Missouri is one of a group of progressive 

 western men who are planning to establish farm colonies of 

 families who have the capacity and the ambition essential to 

 make a success of farming, but who never can, under present 

 conditions of living, obtain the capital required for the transfer 

 from the city to the country. 



A colony would include several forty acre farms with a central 

 model farm. According to the Outlook, that would be occupied 

 by a director, an expert agriculturist. Dr. F. van Eeden, the 

 Dutch sociologist and writer, is planning a colony of Dutch 

 farmers near Wilmington (N. C), which will also be a practical 

 illustration of social organization. 



The future wheat supply of the United States from the point 

 of view of (i) increase in wheat acreage and (2) increase in acre 

 yields is discussed by Professor M. A. Carleton in a recent Science 

 (August 5). The first may be reached by an expansion in the 

 farm area or by devoting a larger percentage of the present farm 



