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 methods can be 

 systems of crop- 

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 conservation of 

 ; Department, with 

 Washington Agri- 

 ^ganized this course 

 directly interested 



J.me railway two years 

 train to be run in con- 

 regon Agricultural Col- 

 .'ked development in the 

 amount of time given, in 

 erritory covered, and in 

 subjects presented, with a 

 increase in the number of 

 J Agricultural College and 

 -ations accompanying the 

 Jnstralors and lecturers: 

 J subjects to be discussed, 

 the conditions in each locality, 

 ntioned the following: Poultry, 

 horticulture, more and better 

 , chemistry of the soil, rotation 

 conservation of moisture, general 

 methods. 



nouncement by the other railway 

 milar train showed the equipment 

 ed by the companies: 

 ill consist of one stock car, one flat 

 aree large baggage cars, and coaches 

 he accommodation of the party in 

 le. The equipment covers in a very : 

 ough manner dairying, poultry, horti- ' 

 ure, forage crops, soils. The stock-car 

 . carry good and poor dairy cows for 

 Qonstration purposes, and first-class 

 3f-type cows, and representative individ- 

 .Is of some of our leading breeds of 

 leep. 



To these demonstration trains a hearty 

 reception has been given by the people in 

 all sections of the two States. They are 

 likely for some years to come to be re- 

 garded by the colleges as valuable oppor- 

 tunities for agricultural college extension, 

 and by the railways as an effective 

 of the intensive development of the 

 try they serve. J. R. Wit 



Portlanil, Oro,, OctoliiM' 29. 



month each year, by the variable recur- 

 rence of school terms, election dates, etc 

 If the German reformers agree among 

 themselves and then bring the rest of the 

 civilized world to their way of thinking all 

 these difficulties will vanish. 



Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 

 geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 

 that body take action on such a reform, and 

 the mathematicians are busy all over Ger- 

 many with plans tor effecting the des[red 

 regularity. Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg in 

 the KolHlsche Volks^eitung, proposes to 

 call New Year's Day zero (0). which will 

 leave the counted days 364 in number and 

 begin each year with the same day of the 

 week. Most of the calculators do substan- 

 tially the same thing, but dispose in vari- 

 ous fashions of the additional uncounted 

 day which appears with the leap years. 

 Elsa Koopman, in Monismus, suggests that 

 the leap-days be allowed to accumulate for 

 twenty-eight years, and then be disposed of 

 in an uncounted "leap-week." She would 

 set her calendar in motion with 1911, thus 

 throwing her leap-years 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

 etc. She would omit the Sunday as Herr 

 von Hesse-Wartegg proposes, would give 

 January, April, July, and October thirty- 

 days each, the other months thirty; 

 lid set Sunday, April U, as Easter; 

 Christmas for the fourth Tuesday of De- 

 cember, Thanksgiving for the 29th of No- 

 vember. Her January, April, July, and Oc- 

 tober begin on IVIonday; February, May. 

 August, and November on Thursday; March. 



September, and December on Satur- 

 day. 



It is doubtful whether the standing still 

 of the calendar for a week every twenty- 

 eighth year would not occasion more con- 

 fusion than the present arrangement. A 

 calendar which accomplishes all that she 

 can claim for hers and would promise to 

 operate with less difficulty, could be con- 

 structed as follows: Apportion the months 

 as Fraulein Koopman proposes, then begin 

 with a year that comes in on Sunday as 

 she does-1911, 1922, 1928, etc.-but leave an 

 uncounted day between December and Jan- 

 uary, and in leap-years another between 

 June and July. We may call the extra days 

 New Year's Day and Leap Year's Day, and 

 thus locate them adequately without num- 

 I bers. The first month of each quarter be- 

 : gins with Sunday, the second with Wednes- 

 [ day, and the third with Friday. 



A division substantially like this has met 

 with general favor and is possibly the cal- 

 endar of the future. 



Rot Tbmplb Hodsbj. 



Mufileburt', Oermnny, October 22. f / ^ 



CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 

 To THE Editor op The Nation: : 

 Sir: We have all been confused by the •' 

 appearance of Christmas on a different ( 

 week-day each year, by the coming of ■ 

 Thanksgiving on a different day of the 



