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estry courses. This school is maintained jointly by the German and 

 Chinese Governments, the latter having appropriated $9,250 for 

 equipment and a like amount annually for 10 years for maintenance. 

 There are both Chinese and European instructors. 



COLOMBIA. 



By official decree, five additional normal schools have been estab- 

 lished. The curriculum prescribed for these normal schools includes, 

 among other subjects, the principles of agriculture. 



FINLAND. 



Training schools in agricultural cooperation have been organized 

 in Finland. Six such schools were recently held for the purpose of 

 giving instruction to the members of the smaller cooperative societies 

 relating to cooperative law, consumers' societies, cooperative dairies, 

 credit banks, and cooperative purchasing societies. 



FRANCE. 



Partly as a result of the influence of a special report to the French 

 minister of agriculture by Prof. Henry, of the National School of 

 Horticulture at Versailles, on special instruction for farmers' daugh- 

 ters, quite a number of French departments are now maintaining 

 traveling domestic-science schools. In December, 1909, there were 

 10 such schools. The principal subjects taught include hygiene, do- 

 mestic economy, child study, morals, agricultural dairying, animal 

 hygiene, poultry culture, beekeeping, and farm and home accounts. 



Encouragement is also being given in some of the departments for 

 elementary agriculture and domestic science in the schools. In three 

 departments in 1909-10 cash prizes of $96.50 were offered to the 

 teachers who gave their pupils the best instruction in domestic science. 



An agricultural institute has been established in connection with 

 the University of Toulouse. 



GERMANY. 



Several of the German States are giving considerable attention to 

 cooperation among farmers, itinerant instruction in agriculture, and 

 instruction in gardening for women. The German Imperial Union 

 of Agricultural Cooperatives conducts an agricultural cooperative 

 school at Darmstadt each winter, the course including a general sur- 

 vey of the present status of cooperation in Germany, the cooperative 

 sale of dairy cattle and milk, information resulting from cooperative 

 inspection, cause and effect of lessons to be derived from the last 

 financial crisis, and agricultural cooperation in the German colonies. 



