PROGKESS IN AGRICULTUEAL EDUCATION. 291 



For a number of years the viticultural school at Weinsberg, Ger- 

 many, has given courses m fruit utiHzation for women and girls. 

 Owing to the overcrowded condition of these courses similar courses 

 have been established and a new buildmg erected for the purpose at 

 the Pomological Institute, Reutlinger. Five courses, covering one 

 week each, were held during July and September, 1909, to each of 

 which 20 students were admitted. The student's time is employed 

 each day in the week (1) in attending lectures on the utiHzation and 

 preservation of foodstuffs, especially fruits and vegetables, and on 

 the action of bacteria, the steriUzation of fruit, and related subjects, 

 and (2) in the actual work of preserving, sterilizmg, pickling, dryuig, 

 harvesting, sorting, packing, and shipping fruits and vegetables. 

 The students provide the fruit and vegetables and at the close of the 

 course have a good supply of conserves, jellies, and marmalades as a 

 result of their efforts. 



ESTDIA. 



The Government of India, with the concurrence of the local gov- 

 ernments of that country, accepted the proposal of the board of 

 agriculture that graduates of colleges of agriculture m India be given 

 the degree of hcentiate of agriculture. Tliis agricultural degree will 

 be recognized in all official pubhcations, and it may be advisable 

 eventually to recognize it as equivalent to a B. S. or B. A. degree as 

 a qualification for government appointments. It is, however, left 

 to each local government to decide what government positions shall 

 be open to candidates with the licentiate of agriculture degree. 



The local governments also agreed to adopt, with necessary local 

 modffications, the standard three-year curriculum prepared by the 

 board of agriculture, and to maintain practically uniform admission 

 requu'ements and final examinations of uniform grade of difficulty. 



Regardmg the affihation of agricultural colleges with provincial 

 universities, the Government of India does not consider such affilia- 

 tion necessary at the present time, but thinks it preferable that each 

 college be controlled by the director of agriculture with the advice of 

 the director of public instruction. All local governments have 

 agreed to this with the exception of Bombay, where the Poona Col- 

 lege of Science has long been affiliated with Bombay University for 

 the purpose of examination for the L. Agr. degree, and with the full 

 concurrence of the central government this satisfactory arrangement 

 will be continued. 



MEXICO. 



A recent law provides for the establishment of national agricultural 

 boards, the object of wliich is to develop agriculture, and especially 

 stock raising, forestry, and related mdustries. They will encom'age 

 the holding of agricultural expositions and will keep in touch with 



