PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL, EDUCATION. 299 



The charter of Nebraska University has been amended by the 

 legishiture to allow a reorganization into seven colleges, namely: 

 The graduate college, the college of arts and sciences, the college of 

 agriculture, the college of engineering, the teachers' college, the col- 

 lege of law. and the college of medicine. Of these, the graduate col- 

 lege has hitherto Ikh.mi known as the graduate school, and the colleges 

 of agriculture and engineering have constituted what was known as 

 the industrial college. The new college of agriculture is to include 

 the university work in general and technical agriculture, forestry, 

 and domestic science. The departments of soils and farm crops 

 have been reorganized into a department of instructional agronomy 

 and farm management and a department of experimental agronomy. 



The work of the New York State College of Agriculture in rural 

 economy, hitherto under the immediate direction of the dean as 

 professor of rural economics, has been formally organized as a sepa- 

 rate department. X further differentiation of the horticultural de- 

 partment has also been made through the appointment of an assistant 

 professor of pomology. 



At Ohio State University the department of horticulture and 

 forestry has been divided, W. R. Lazenby retaining charge of the 

 work in forestry, which has been extended to include a four-year 

 course. Wendell Paddock has been called from the Colorado Agri- 

 cultural College to take charge of the department of horticulture. 



The North Dakota xVgricultural College has established a four- 

 year collegiate course in veterinary science. A veterinary depart- 

 ment has also been established at the Montana college. 



The board of regents of the University of Wisconsin has estab- 

 • lished two fellowships at $400 a year and two scholarships at $225 

 a year for graduate students in agriculture. These are to be open 

 to graduates of colleges of recognized standing and other students 

 ■with equivalent education, and both men and women are to be 

 eligible. An experimental forestry laboratory is to be established at 

 the university by the Forest Service of this Department in a $30,000 

 building, to be erected by the university on a site adjacent to the 

 college of agriculture. The Forest Service is to supply equipment 

 and maintain a corps of investigators. It is expected that the 

 laboratory will be available to the faculty and students of the uni- 

 versity for research work, and that members of the staff will deliver 

 lectures on forestry and related topics in the university courses as 

 well as in a course for forest rangers to be established by the univer- 

 sity. Among the lines of experimental work to be taken up in the 

 laboratory are tests of various woods for paper pulp and for building 

 materials, and the distillation of turpentine, alcohol, and resin from 

 wood waste. 



