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WORK OF THE COLLEGES. 



Much progTess has been made during the year in the organization 

 of the agricultural courses of the land-grant colleges along broader 

 lines, in the specialization of courses, and in organizing extension 

 work. At the ]Maryland Agricultural College the general agricultural 

 course has been subdivided, and separate courses are now offered in 

 agronomy, animal industry, horticulture, and chemistry. Likewise 

 at the Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts the 

 general agricultural course has been expanded into separate courses 

 in agronomy, animal husbandry, dairying, and horticulture; and a 

 three-year elementary course in agriculture continuing for six months 

 of the year has been offered in the newly created school of agriculture. 

 A school of agriculture has also been established in coimection with 

 the University of Idaho, providing a four-3'ear course preparatory to 

 the regular college work. The university also announces a four-year 

 course in domestic economy. A four-year course in household eco- 

 nomics is now offered by Purdue University, the course leading to the 

 deoree of bachelor of science. Farm mechanics has been added to the 

 curriculum of the school of agriculture of Purdue University and to 

 that of the ]^-Iichigan Agricultural College. Cornell University Col- 

 leoe of Aoriculture offers two new short courses for women, one in 

 horticulture and the other in home economics. Simmons College, of 

 Boston, has recently taken over the property and management of 

 the Boston Cooking School and established a regular four-year course 

 in domestic science and a one-year course for those who do not wish 

 to devote more time to this study. The two-year horticultural 

 course formerly offered by the Massachusetts Agricultural College for 

 women students of Simmons College has been discontinued. 



A four-year course in forestry, leading to the degree of bachelor of 

 science, is now offered by the Oregon State Agricultural College. A 

 school of forestry has also been started in connection with Colorado 

 College, at Colorado Springs, which has recently acquired by gift 

 15,000 acres of forest land. An endowment of $150,000 is being 

 raised for a chair of practical forestry and lumbering at the Yale 

 Forest vSchool. This chair has already been established and the work 

 is now being organized. 



A department of agricultural extension has been organized at the 

 Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, with P. G. Hol- 

 den as superintendent; M. L. Mosher, in charge of farm crops; P. K. 

 Bliss, in charge of animal husbandry; A. H. Snyder, in charge of soils; 

 J. C. Guthrie, in charge of dairying; J. W. Jones, in charge of horti- 

 culture; IVliss Mary F. Rausch, in charge of household economics, and 

 G. E. Stayner, secretary. One of the features of extension work in 

 Iowa during the past year was a short course in corn and live stock 



