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The competition is to be based upon the animal and grain exhibits 

 from the several colleges and such other forms of agricultural student 

 competition as may be recognized or established by the exposition, 

 The details are to be determined by the management, and the scholar- 

 ships are to be known as the J. Ogden Ai"mour scholarsliips. 



A meeting of representatives of many of the agricultural colleges 

 and the managers of the International Live Stock Exposition has 

 since been held, and plans for the distribution of these scholarships 

 have been decided upon. One scholarship will be given to each col- 

 lege leading at the exposition in judging horses, cattle, swine, sheep, 

 and corn; one to the college making the best exhibit of feedstuffs; 

 and one to the college making the highest average. The remaining 

 thirteen will be apportioned according to the winnings of the colleges 

 at the show, except that no college may receive more than 40 per cent 

 of the total number. The awarding of the scholarships to students 

 will be done by the respective colleges. 



THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS. 



The need of secondary com-ses in agriculture is coming to be more 

 definitely recognized. As noted above, secondary courses have been 

 organized this year in the Montana and Idaho colleges. An agri- 

 cultural course has been conducted during the year in the public high 

 school at St. Louis, Mich., and the class in agTiculture is the largest 

 class in the school. It is reported by the State superintendents of 

 public instruction that agriculture is taught in 200 high schools in 

 Missouri, 30 in Ohio, and one or more in Alabama, New Hampshire, 

 Pennsylvania, New York, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Louisiana, Indi- 

 ana, Maine, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Caro- 

 lina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. 



In New Hampshire, beginning with 1906, high schools and acade- 

 mies may be approved by the State superintendent of education if 

 they are prepared to teach agriculture. Recent legislation in Vii'ginia 

 provides for the establishment of public high schools under the author- 

 ity of the vState superintendent of education. Arrangements are 

 being made to open about 150 such schools, and it is intended to 

 make instruction in agriculture a feature of the course in such of these 

 schools as are located in the country. 



A new high school has been opened at Petersham, Mass., Avith a 

 course in agriculture. Edwin H. Scott, a graduate of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, is instructor in that department. Much 

 interest has been exhibited in the provision of this new coiu"se, which 

 was equipped in advance of any other department in the school. 



At the California Polytechnic School a new two-story domestic 

 science building, 42 by 103 feet, is just being completed. It contains 

 on the first floor an office and reception room, two sewing rooms, with 



