Miscellaneous. 



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[January, 1909. 



concerned, and in practice it has been 

 proved that much better results can be 

 obtained by only cropping a certain plot 

 ■with potatoes once in three years. Any 

 of the Cabbage family, Peas, Beans or 

 Onions may, with advantage and 

 safety, follow Potatoes, Carrots, Parsnips 

 Beetroots or Celery. Generally speak- 

 ing, Beans should not folio *v Peas nor 

 vice versa, and this applies to any kinds 

 which are closely related or belong to 

 the same family, hence Tomatoes should 

 not follow Potatoes. The same general 

 remarks apply to flowers, and any Sweet 

 Pea enthusiast, for instance, will avoid 

 growing his favourites on the same soil 

 two years running if he possibly can. 



In gardens where rotation is impossible 

 of course the food difficulty is overcome 

 to a great extent by judicious manuring, 

 but the question of disease or insect 

 attack can be only thoroughly dealt 

 with by keeping a particular plot free 

 from a crop that is likely to be attacked, 

 for several years,— Garden, Vol- LXXL, 

 No. 1923. September, 1908. 



SIXTEENTH ANNUAL AGRICUL- 

 TURAL CAMP MEETING PAIR AT 

 CALHOUN, LOUISIANA. 



In organizing the several experiment 

 stations of the State of Louisiana some 

 twenty years ago, Governor McEnery 

 and Dr. W. C Stubbs selected a site in 

 the hills of Ouachita parish in North 

 Louisiana for an experiment station, 

 which should be adapted to the needs of 

 the hill-farmers in contradistinction to 

 those of the alluvial lands and the 

 prairie lands and the pine flat lands. 

 Right from the start the station at 

 Calhoun became one of the most popular 

 in the State and excellent results were at 

 once perceptible. The entire farming 

 community within reasonable reach was 

 affected by the station's influence along 

 educational lines in improved farming, 

 and that good work has been going on 

 ever since. An Agricultural Society was 

 organized, which held monthly meetings, 

 and this brought in hundreds and some- 

 times thousands of visitors to the 

 station. This led in turn to agricultural 

 camp meetings, and finally to a Camp 

 Meeting Fair, the various visitors bring- 

 ing in from their farms specimens of 

 their home products ; and now the annual 

 fair on the experiment station grounds 

 at Calhoun has become a permanent 

 feature, and the display of Louisiana 

 products there would satisfy the most 

 sceptical as to the capacity of our State 

 to produce almost any known agri- 

 cultural product, and to produce it, if 

 you please, in the hills of North Louisiana, 



where the lands are not considered as 

 fertile as the alluvial lands. In a test 

 made some years ago of the amount of 

 corn grown comparatively, Governor 

 M. J. Foster was one of the Examiners, 

 and by actual test, measurement of the 

 land and weight; of the corn gathered, it 

 was found that the production of corn 

 equalled over a hundred bushels per 

 acre. Of course no such crop is grown 

 generally in the hills of North Louisiana, 

 nor anywhere else in the United States, 

 but it shows what can be done there 

 with intense culture. — Louisiana Planter 

 and Sugar Manufacturer, Vol. XXXXI., 

 No. 13, September, 1908. 



AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 

 FOR BENGAL. 



The new Agricultural College at Sa- 

 baur, of which Sir Andrew Fraser laid 

 the foundation-stone recently, is an 

 undertaking which ought to rouse the 

 utmost enthusiasm throughout Bengal. 

 It is almost the first step towards the 

 establishment of genuine technical edu- 

 cation in this Province, that is, education 

 which applies the results of scientific 

 research to a great staple industry, and 

 which enables those engaged in that 

 industry to do their work scientifically. 

 When the College is completed, Agricul- 

 ture, which is the chief industry of 

 Bengal, will begin to receive upon an 

 adequate scale the benefits of modern 

 science. Hitherto, though agricultural 

 training has not been wholly neglected, 

 the efforts made in that direction have 

 been tentative and have been rewarded 

 with indifferent success. As Mr. Gour- 

 lay mentioned in his admirable sketah 

 of the course of events which has led to 

 the establishment of a College, officers of 

 the Provincial Service were sent to Ciren- 

 cester to be trained, and later instruc- 

 tion in agricultural subjects was given at 

 Sibpur. But the results were not satis- 

 factory and the Province gained little 

 except, perhaps, the services of the 

 late Mr. N. G. Mukerji. Agriculture in 

 Bengal may, therefore, be said to be 

 now at the opening of a new era. No 

 pains have been spared to secure a site 

 for the new College where it will be 

 easily accessible, and where land will be 

 available on which as many as possible 

 of the principal crops of the Province 

 can be experimentally cultivated, These 

 conditions are fulfilled at Sabaur. As for 

 the College itself, it is clear from Mr. 

 Gourlay's lucid description that every 

 need of the agricultural student has 

 been carefully anticipated. If the choice 

 of the staff is equally felicitous, Bengal 



