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service of former pupils of elementary agricultural schools to one 

 year. This advantage will also be given to young men who can pass 

 an examination equivalent to one year's work in agriculture in these 

 schools. 



WEST INDIES. 



An estimate was included in the Cuban budget for 1910-11 of 

 $112,200 for the maintenance of the six agricultural schools author- 

 ized for the several Provinces by an act passed July 12, 1909. 



Under a law recently signed by President Caceres, a general board 

 of agriculture and immigration was established in Santo Domingo. 

 This board will have supervision of all schools of agriculture, both 

 public and jjrivate. An agricultural laboratory and an experiment 

 station are contemplated, and the more general dissemination of 

 agricultural literature is to be taken up. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRI- 

 CULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The twenty-third annual convention of the association was held 

 at Portland, Oreg., August 18-20, 1909. The report of the executive 

 committee called attention to the importance of more general sup- 

 port of the Graduate School of Agriculture. In reply to an inquiry 

 as to whether the pension of a professor partly engaged in research 

 work would be based on his whole salary or only on the part which 

 he receives for teaching. President Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foun- 

 dation, stated to the committee that in his judgment — 



the trustees of the foundation would never make any discrimination in such 

 cases so long as the professor concerned did a certain amount of teaching. 



In his report as bibliographer, A. C. True, of this office, discussed 

 the station library and its use. He pointed out the need in many 

 cases of more systematic attention to tlie library and bibliographical 

 work, and urged that the station should have, if possible, the services 

 of some person trained in library and bibliogi'aphical matters who 

 may give his time and energy quite fully to the special requirements 

 of the station along these lines. In addition to the collection, safe- 

 guarding, filing, and general care of the documents and publications 

 bearing on the work of the stations — 



the station investigations may be greatly aided and promoted by having some 

 person who can assist in looking up references, in making excerpts, and in 

 making and taking care of indexes and doing bibliographical work of a miscel- 

 laneous character. * * * ^q cover this work the stations do not need a 

 librarian simply, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but rather what may 

 be called a bibliographical aid, some one who has some scientific knowledge 

 and who is properly trained so as to give efficient aid in bibliographical 

 matters to the station staff. 



