Course of study in agriculture, 1923, F. B. JENKS (Vt. Bd. Ed. Bul. 1 (1923), pt. 4, pp. 37).—This publication constitutes part 4 of the manual and courses of study for the high schools of Vermont. The scope of the instruction described covers the last six grades of the public school course on a six and six plan, and is nonvocational, prevocational, and vocational in aim. The work of the first and second years is intended to be an introduction to general science and a general survey of the field of agriculture, with emphasis upon local problems. That of the third and fourth years is intended to be a definite, intensive study of farm problems, with emphasis on local needs. It is recommended that the work of the fifth and sixth years be vocational, and that an extensive farm project be a required part of the course.

Course of study in home economics, 1923, J. A. WINCHELL (Vt. Bd. Ed. Bul. 1 (1923), pt. 5, pp. 54).-This is part 5 of the manual noted above. Outlines have been prepared setting forth the content and aims of courses in home economics, particularly in the junior high schools. An extensive list of suggested reference books is given, as well as lists of bulletins and periodicals. Insect life, W. W. KRUEGER (Grand Rapids: Central High School, 1923, pp. [8]+74). This is an elementary account.

Suggestions for work in elementary agriculture.—Farm stock and dairying, R. F. LUND (Conn. Bd. Ed. Bul. 1 (1923–24), pp. IV+110, figs. 34).— The plan of a course in farm stock and dairying for grades 5 to 8 is presented, together with suggested steps in teaching procedure. Lessons are drawn up in exhibiting garden produce and farm stock and poultry, and in various classes of livestock, pastures, soiling crops, and dairy products. Suggested topics for compositions and public demonstrations and lists of supplementary reading farm papers, elementary texts, and animal breeders' associations are given.

Pig raising for club members, L. V. STARKEY (Clemson Agr. Col. S. C., Ext. Bul. 58 (1923), pp. 46, figs. 21).—Questions and answers are drawn up in these pages covering the principal points to be presented to club members in the judging, care, and feeding of pigs.

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Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Station, 1923, [R. L. WATTS] (Pennsylvania Sta. Bul. 181 (1923), pp. 28, fig. 1).—This bulletin discusses briefly the work of the station for the year ended June 30, 1923, including a financial statement for this period. The experimental work recorded is for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue.

Quarterly Bulletin of the Michigan Experiment Station, edited by R. S. SHAW and E. B. HILL (Michigan Sta. Quart. Bul., 6 (1923), No. 2, pp. 41–78, figs. 10). In addition to articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue, this number contains the following: Clover and Alfalfa Seed Movement, by C. R. Megee; When the Tractor Goes Down, by H. H. Musselman; White Grubs, by R. H. Pettit; and The Bacteriology of Ice Cream, by F. W. Fabian.

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California University and Station. The fruit products laboratory has developed a product known as "jelly juice." This consists of the juice of one or more kinds of fruits concentrated and blended in such a way that on adding the proper proportion of sugar and boiling for two minutes a jelly invariably results. The commercial preparation of this product has been taken up by several firms under various trade names, and the utilization of considerable cull fruit in this way is anticipated.

Four summer-session courses in subtropical horticulture will be offered this year for the first time. These courses will be given in the laboratories of the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, beginning June 28 and continuing until August 9. The purpose of the courses is primarily to furnish university students and teachers of agriculture an opportunity to obtain training in these subjects in a region where this type of horticulture is regularly pursued. The courses will be equivalent to courses of the same designation given in the college of agriculture at Berkeley and will yield equal university credit. They will present both the scientific and practical side of the subjects treated. The instruction will cover such subjects as propagation, planting, varieties, breeding, tillage, fertilization, pruning, diseases and injurious insects, picking, packing, and marketing.

H. J. Webber, professor of citriculture and director of the Citrus Experiment Station; C. M. Haring, professor of veterinary science and acting director of the station; M. E. Jaffa, professor of nutrition; E. B. Babcock, professor of genetics; F. M. Hayes, associate professor of veterinary science; and J. E. Dougherty, associate professor of poultry husbandry, have been granted a year's sabbatical leave of absence for travel and study. J. W. Nelson, associate professor of agricultural extension, has been granted a year's leave of absence to become secretary of the State Farm Bureau Federation, succeeding V. C. Bryant, who returned as assistant professor of agricultural extension January 1.

The resignations are noted of L. C. Holmes, assistant in agricultural extension, effective January 1, and S. S. Gossman, assistant in poultry husbandry at Davis, effective May 1. Sylvia L. Parker, associate in the department of biometry and vital statistics in the School of Hygiene and Public Health in Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed instructor in poultry husbandry, effective May 1, and Ada Robertson and H. D. Sylvester assistants in agricultural extension, effective January 1.

Iowa College and Station.-According to a note in Iowa Agriculturist, the department of poultry husbandry is soon to begin a series of breeding experiments covering a period of 4 years and including about 1,500 pullets. This work will necessitate the construction of additional poultry houses.

Investigations are also contemplated of ventilation in poultry houses in cooperation with the department of agricultural engineering, using houses completely sealed and supplied with a deficiency, a large excess, and intermediate amounts of air.

Homer G. Bryson, instructor in agricultural journalism, has resigned and has been succeeded by C. R. Smith.

Massachusetts College and Station.-Analysis has recently been made of the occupations of the graduates of the four-year course. Of the graduates of the last 20 years, approximately two-thirds are engaged in agricultural occupations and 21 per cent in some form of practical farming. Of the remainder, 43 per cent are employed in agricultural occupations other than farming, 18 per cent in business, and 18 per cent in other nonagricultural occupations Of the 1,190 living graduates whose occupations are known, 79 are agricultural! college administrators and teachers, 60 pursuing like work in agricultural schools, 27 station administrators and experts, 37 extension-service administrators and experts, 32 State agricultural experts, and 53 administrators and experts in the United States Department of Agriculture.

The Goessmann chemical laboratory, under construction at a cost of $300,000, is nearing completion. It will have a frontage of 197 feet, with wings 70 by 90 feet deep, respectively. It will contain an auditorium seating 168, two lecture rooms seating 75 each, eight large laboratories and several small research laboratories, a departmental library, the Goessmann memorial alcove, and a seminary room. The chemical work of the college and station will be centered in the building, the station receiving a suite of rooms especially designed for research purposes.

The State appropriation for maintenance of the station has been increased from $84,750 to $94,000. This is exclusive of control work for which an additional $31,100 has been appropriated.

H. F. Tompson resigned January 15 as professor of vegetable gardening and director of the Market Garden Field Station at Lexington in order to devote his full time to his own farm. R. M. Koon, in charge of horticultural work in soldier rehabilitation at the University of Delaware, has been appointed extension professor of vegetable gardening, beginning about February 1 and taking over the extension work in that subject. Victor A. Tiedjens has been appointed assistant research professor of vegetable gardening and William L. Doran assistant research professor of botany, both being located at the Market Garden Field Station.

Other appointments include Harold E. Wilson as laboratory assistant in pomology, Donald S. Lacroix as investigator at the Cranberry Substation, John P. Jones as assistant research professor of agronomy, and George B. Dalrymple as analyst in the fertilizer control service. Dr. Arao Itano has resigned as assistant professor of microbiology to take effect at the end of the present college year, when he will return to Japan to have charge of the division of microbiology and chemistry at the Ohara Institute for Agricultural Research. Charles O. Dunbar has resigned as investigator in chemistry.

President K. L. Butterfield has recently been elected a member of the International Institute of Sociology of Paris, of which M. Georges Clemenceau is chairman.

Conference of Negro Land-Grant College Presidents.-This organization, which has succeeded the Association of Negro Land-Grant Colleges formed at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1923, held its first meeting at Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute March 3-5. The meeting was called by the United States Commissioner of Education, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education and the United States Department of Agriculture cooperated in the program. The special object of the meeting was to aid the member colleges in strengthening their courses in agriculture, home economics, and trades and industries. Progress is reported in planning

a standard course in agriculture for negro colleges, and work will be continued by committees with the cooperation of this Department, the Bureau of Education, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education. President J. M. Gandy, of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, was reelected president of the conference.

Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. The personnel of the scientific staff of this college, which was formally opened at St. Augustine, Trinidad, in October, 1922, consists of Sir Francis Watts, principal; H. A. Ballou, professor of zoology and entomology; S. F. Ashby, professor of mycology and bacteriology; S. C. Harland, professor of botany and genetics; F. Hardy, professor of chemistry and soil science; J. S. Dash, professor of agriculture; W. R. Dunlop, professor of economics; and E. C. Freeland, professor of sugar technology. There are also several administrators and lecturers. A threeyear diploma course is being given in general agriculture, and facilities are also provided for graduate work in various lines of tropical agriculture.

The college is establishing a model sugar factory, for which British sugar machinery manufacturers are contributing equipment valued at £20,000. The factory is expected to be completed next year.

The Colonial Research Committee of the British Empire has made a special grant to the college toward the expenses of carrying on investigations of the Panama disease of bananas.

Tropical Agriculture is being published monthly by the college. The initial number consists mainly of numerous short articles by various members of the college staff and others.

Phytopathological Service for France.-The establishment of such a service is provided by a decree dated November 24, 1923. The service is charged with general oversight of conditions pertaining to plant production; the control of invasions of insect, fungus, and other injurious plant pests; inspection of nurseries and fields of those engaged in the export business; and the issuance of certificates of inspection.

Agricultural Institute at Lin 1 Hsien, Shantung, China.—An account has been received of an agricultural institute which was held in April, 1923, at Lin I Hsien, a market town about 50 miles north of Tsinan, under the auspices of the Tsinan Station Shantung Mission and the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Nanking. Members of the staff of the college,. students, and other visiting lecturers spent four days presenting the value of improved cotton strains, better methods of cotton cultivation, and soil improvement; exhibiting improved farm crops material; demonstrating an American plow; and giving plays in the local theater on themes relating to agricultural improvement and social betterment. The exhibits were arranged in the local Taoist Temple. The magistrate of the district cooperated in the financial support and arrangements for the institute.

The institute is said to have been the first in the region and attracted great attention. At one evening session several thousand people attended an illustrated lecture on the cultivation and fertilization of soils. It was hoped to repeat the institute in the fall.

The missionary in charge had become convinced through his famine relief work that Christianity must be made more practical in its expression to the country people, that famines would continue until better economic and social conditions prevailed as well as an altered spiritual life, and that the development of a self-respecting and self-supporting land depended on this.

Necrology. The death of Dr. T. Wurth, director of the Malang Experiment Station in the Dutch East Indies, has recently been reported.

Dr. Wurth, after a connection with the station for two years, was appointed director in 1911. Under his leadership the station developed in equipment as well as in its capacity to meet the demands of the associations of planters and others interested in the production of coffee, rubber, and other tropical crops and products. A new station building, in the construction of which he was largely concerned, was dedicated only a few months before his death.

Dr. Wurth published many articles in agricultural and scientific journals on the culture, improvement, and diseases of coffee and rubber.

New Journals.-Cereal Chemistry is being published bimonthly by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, which in 1923 united with the American Society of Milling and Baking Technology under the name of the former organization. The editorial staff includes Dr. C. H. Bailey of the Minnesota University and Station as editor in chief. The contents of the initial number are as follows: Cereal Chemistry of To-day, by M. J. Blish; A Viscosimetric Study of Wheat Starches, by O. S. Rask and C. L. Alsberg; Characteristics of the 1923 Hard Winter Wheat Crop, by R. S. Herman and A. R. Sasse; Abstract of the Report of Referee on Cereal Foods, Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, by C. E. Mangels; The Physico-chemical Properties of Strong and Weak Flours-VIII, Effect of Yeast Fermentation on Imbibitional Properties of Gluten, by P. F. Sharp and R. A. Gortner; and Physical Tests of Flour Quality with the Chopin Extensimeter, by C. H. Bailey and A. M. LeVesconte.

The British Journal of Experimental Biology is being published quarterly by the animal breeding research department of the University of Edinburgh with F. A. E. Crew as managing editor and an editorial board from several other institutions. It is the intention to publish original contributions in genetics, experimental embryology, comparative physiology, and histological, cytological, or morphological subjects having a direct bearing on problems of experlmental interest. The initial number contains the following articles: Studies on Internal Secretion.-II, Endocrine Activity in Fetal and Embryonic Life, by L. T. Hogben and F. A. E. Crew; Studies on the Comparative Physiology of Digestion.-I, The Mechanism of Feeding, Digestion, and Assimilation in the Lamellibranch Mya, by C. M. Yonge; Parthenogenesis in the Mollusk Paludestrina jenkinsi, I, by G. C. Robson; Further Data on Linkage in Gammarus chevreuri and its Relation to Cytology, by V. S. Huxley; Histological Studies on the Gonads of the Fowl.-I, The Histological Basis of Sex Reversal, by H. B. Fell; and Tissue Culture: A Critical Summary, by H. M. Carleton. Announcement is also made of a proposal to organize a British association of experimental biologists.

The Potato News Bulletin is being issued monthly by the Potato Association of America. The initial number contains notes on the status of the potato crop in various localities and brief abstracts of recent literature.