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splicing, spelling farm words, and domestic science, and special lec- 

 tures were given by Dean Davenport of the college of agriculture, 

 President John W. Cook and C. W. ^^^litten, of the normal school, 

 Frank H. Hall, of Aurora, 111., and others. There were 75 students 

 in attendance, ranging in age from 11 to G8 years. The State normal 

 school at Cape Girardeau, Mo., conducted a 6-weeks' course in agricul- 

 ture for the benefit of those in the agricultural district surrounding 

 this school who could not attend regular school work, but desired 

 some training in the business of farming. 



In accordance with an act passed by the last legislature requiring 

 the teaching of agriculture in the three State normal schools in Texas 

 and making appropriations for this purpose, the Sam Houston Nor- 

 mal Institute, at Huntsville, has employed a special teacher of agri- 

 culture and erected a new building which will provide an agricultural 

 laboratory and other facilities for teaching agriculture. 



For two years the agricultural department of the University of 

 Tennessee has offered free scholarships in the Sumner School of the 

 South, held at Knoxville, to several teachers in each county of the 

 State who take the courses in elementary agriculture and horticul- 

 ture, introduce this work in their own schools, and assist in getting it 

 into the other schools of their county. These scholarships are worth 

 $10 each, and appointments to them are made by the various county 

 superintendents. They admit appointees not only to the courses in 

 agriculture and horticulture (four hours per day) but also to any of 

 200 or more other classes for which the teachers have time. 



This year (summer, 1910) for the first time a course for teachers 

 on the principles of agriculture is to be included in the instruction 

 offered by the Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, during the 

 session beginning July 6. The course will be under the direction of 

 Prof. H. H. Laughlin, of the Missouri State Normal School, at 

 Kirksville, and will continue six weeks. 



In Massachusetts cooperative efforts to promote better teaching in 

 rural districts are being made by the agricultural college and the 

 North Adams State Normal School, where three training schools are 

 maintained, a city school with all the grades, a mill-village school 

 with two rooms and eight grades, and a rural school with two rooms 

 and six grades. Particulap emphasis is laid upon the methods of 

 conducting school and home gardens in connection with these train- 

 ing schools. 



The Maryland State Board of Education, in accordance with an 

 act of the general assembly in 1908, has selected a farm of 178 acres 

 near Bowie, on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Washington and 

 Baltimore, as a site for a new State normal school for negroes. In- 

 struction is to be given in mechanic arts, trades, agriculture, and 



