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of the year I had a bale and a half to the acre on the two acres 

 worked his way, and a little over a third of a bale on the land 

 worked my way. You could have knocked me down with a 

 feather. This year I have a bale and a half to the acre on my 

 whole farm. If you do not believe it, I invite you to go down 

 and see. Yes, sir ; as a good cotton planter I am just one year 

 old.'" 



NEWS ITEMS 



Mr. and Mrs. Norman Taylor are spending a few weeks in Santo 

 Domingo in the interests of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. C. H. Shattuck, formerly associate professor of botany 

 and forestry at Clemson College, S. C, has accepted a professor- 

 ship in the University of Idaho. 



Mr. W. W. Eggleston has been devoting several weeks to col- 

 lecting and studying Crataegi in North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Alabama, Kentucky, and West Virginia. 



Professor C. S. Hitchcock, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 has recently returned from a summer spent in collecting and 

 studying the grasses of the Yukon Valley, Alaska. 



Mrs. Kellerman, widow of the late Professor William A. Kel- 

 lerman, is offering for sale his valuable herbarium of flowering 

 plants (60,000 specimens) and fungi (over 70,000 specimens). 



At the Portland, Oregon, meeting of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, Professor W. 

 J. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agricultural College, was 

 elected president of the Association. 



The Gunnison tunnel, opened in Montrose County, Colorado, 

 last September, by President Taft, diverts the course of the 

 Gunnison River and provides sufificient water to irrigate 150,000 

 acres of land. This is the first project undertaken by the 

 government reclamation service. The tunnel is six miles long, 

 with a capacity of over 1,000 cubic feet a second. 



Among the recipients of honorary degrees conferred at the 

 inauguration of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell as president of Har- 

 vard University, was Dr. John Christopher Willis, director of the 

 Royal Garden at Ceylon, and a delegate from Cambridge 



