Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

| them give only summer courses. The
! fertilizer laws in this country, as In
other countries we have visited, do
not seem to me to give the protection
afforded by our laws. Swiss farmers
do not purchase much heterogeneous fer
tilizer, but use mainly potash, salts
and acid phosphate They make and
apply large quantities of manure.
| Dresden. August 13.-We spent Sun.
day at Lucerne, mostly in enjoyment
of the Alpine scenery and in seeing
the people of all nations who were
there on the playground of Europe.
Lucerne is the central point of Swift
ierland: all roads lead there and all
visitors come. We came at the height
of the season, when all the hotels were
full and we had to take what accom-
modations we could get, which were
very good, however. For all the for
eign lords, however, we could hardly
tell-from the people-that we were
not in some American scenery. Ex-
cept for an occasional lady in the
Swiss costume, and still less often a
man with the hat and feather of the
Tyrol, the dress was much the same
as ours. Sunday afternoon we went to
Zurich. Our program for Zurich was
planned for us by Prof. Hans Moos of
the Polytechnic. We first visited the
Polytechnic, paying particular atten-
ton to the agricultural department.
There are about ninety agricultural
students, thirty of foreign birth and
sixty Swiss. The museum contains
collections of small models of farm
implements, animals of various types,
seed and wool specimens, insects and
illustrations showing the damage done
by them, and other agricultural speci-
MEMS The models OF agricultural i'm
plements are very well made. We have
found them, not only in Zurich, but in
other agricultural schools. Small mod
els of cows, horses, etc, Of various
breeds, some of the best types and
others with various defects, are used
at Zurich as substitutes for the living
animals, as they have no herds or ex-
detrimental plats, either. We were
very much interested in the seed test
ing laboratory. The director conducted
us through and explained the various
methods for testing the purity and the
terminating power of the seeds sub
mitted to them. The methods used
vary according to the kind OF seed.
The seeds tested come from all over
the world, but are submitted chiefly
by seedmen or by importers or ex-
porters of seed. We also went through
the chemical laboratory of the Zurich
Polytechnic. The laboratory is small,
and was not favorable impressed by
some of the methods used.
In the afteronon DR.. Moos took us
to the forest nursery, quite long walk
through a forest belonging to the city
of Zurich, and past monument erect
ed to commemorate the Battle of
Zurich in 1912. At the forest nursery
we found trees in various stages of
growth, from those just coming up to
trees ten years old. There were trees
of various kinds and there were ex-
periments to test the effect of the vari-
Gus origin of seed growth, growth in
various types of forest soil brought
from different sections of Switzerland,
trees from various attitudes and from
various ATTITUDES, effect of light and
shade in trees, etc. Forestry expert
ments are very slow, as it is about
thirty-five years before the ordinary