366 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



RECENT PROGRESS BY STATES. 

 ARKANSAS. 



The four district agricultural schools provided for by the Arkan- 

 sas Legislature were located as follows: First district, Jonesboro; 

 second district, Eussellville ; third district, Magnolia ; and fourth dis- 

 trict, Monticello. The Russellville school will open in the fall of 

 1910, with A. K. Short, fonnerly animal husbandman of the Arkan- 

 sas College and station, in charge as principal. 



CALIFORNIA. 



The department of agricultural education in the State University 

 has published a circular giving the results of a survey of the present 

 status of agricultural instruction in certain public high schools of 

 the State, and containing also the courses offered in the State Poly- 

 technic School, at San Luis Obispo, and the University Farm School, 

 at Davis, and a suggested four-year course in agriculture adapted to 

 correlation with the first two years of the usual high-school course 

 and to specialized study in the last two years. 



A number of substantial buildings have been erected at the uni- 

 versity farm school at Davis. Among the more important of these 

 are the dairy building and the judging pavilion erected in 1907, the 

 $30,000 dormitory (PL XVI, fig. 1), and the $20,000 dairy barn (PI. 

 XVI, fig. 2), erected in 1908, the $9,000 veterinary building erected 

 in 1909, and the $23,000 horticultural building (PI. XVII, fig. 1), 

 the $7,500 horse barn (PI. XVII, fig. 2), and the $5,500 sheep barn 

 erected in 1910. 



COLORADO. 



The Colorado Agricultural College established a school of agri- 

 culture with a course extending over three years of six months each. 



IDAHO. 



The board of regents authorized the establishment of a school of 

 practical agriculture with a course of study to extend over three 

 years, and with six months' instruction each year, beginning about 

 October 1. E. J. Iddings, assistant in animal husbandry in the 

 Colorado college, was appointed principal of the school. 



ILLINOIS. 



New cour:5es in agriculture extending over two and one-half years 

 have been introduced into the academy which serves as a preparatory 

 school to the University of Illinois. In these the first year is given 



