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finished the sixtli grade in pubHc schools and have had one year of 

 practical experience in gardening, can be admitted. Among the 

 technical subjects taught in the course are garden architecture, 

 machines and implements, landscape gardening, garden management, 

 agriculture, farm economics, and farm law. 



The Agricultural Academy at Magyar-Ovar is so crowded that it is 

 recommending students to go to other agricultural academies in 

 Hungary where the qualifications for admission to the Magyar-Ovar 

 Academy \nll admit them to the second year. 



AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 



The Queensland, Australia, department of agriculture has inaugu- 

 rated a system whereby young men who find it impracticable to 

 attend the Agricultural College at Gatton are given the opportunity of 

 gaining an insight into farming at the Hermitage State Farm, Warwick. 



The New Zealand department of agriculture is encouragmg the 

 introduction of agriculture into the primary schools of that country. 

 The biologist of the department has been conducting experiments 

 for several years in connection with the Mauriceville West Primary 

 School in teaching the elements of agricultural science and school 

 gardening. In his report on the school-garden work, he says : "The 

 time allotted to this work is two hours per week, and it has been found 

 that not only does it not interfere with the effective teaching of other 

 subjects, but it is actually an assistance, providing, as it does, addi- 

 tional subjects for composition exercises, increasing the pupil's 

 powers of observation and inculcating habits of neatness and methodi- 



cal arrangement." 



SOUTH AFRICA. 



In Natal, South Africa, the Cedara School of Agriculture, which was 

 opened to students in the spring of 1906, provides a two-j^ear practical 

 course in which students spend about four days a week in practical 

 work in the field and workshop, and the remainder of the tmie in the 

 study of such subjects as forestry, horticulture, dairying, veterinary 

 science, entomology, agricultural chemistry, mathematics, bookkeep- 

 ing, and surveying. The school is provided \\dth a new building con- 

 taining two stories and a basement, the latter devoted to laboratories, 

 kitchen, etc., the first floor to dining hall, library, and offices, and the 

 second floor to dormitories and a large lecture hall. 



A farmers' reading course in practical agriculture for the farmers 

 of South Africa is to be given under the supervision of William P. 

 Brooks, director of the Massachusetts Station. The course will be 

 covered in Brooks' Agriculture, Volumes I and II, and the student 

 will be guided in his studies by a large syllabus of over 60 pages, con- 

 taining lesson assignments, helpful suggestions, directions for experi- 

 ments, and over 2,000 questions on the lessons. 



