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of the State. When a club of 25 is organized and officers selected, the school 

 t>ends a man with demonstration material to instruct the members in making 

 i-oot grafts, storhig them until spring, and setting, cultivating, and protecting 

 them through the summer. 



Country School Poultry Clubs.— According to the Oklahoma State Farmer, 

 the state suiierintendent of public instruction is advocating the formation of 

 poultry clubs in all Oklahoma schools. Instructions have been issued as to 

 the organization of these clubs through the initiative of the teachers. It is 

 also held that every school district should maintain a pen of some breed, with 

 incubators, a small' i)Oultry house and yard, and other equipment on the school 

 grounds or at some other convenient place in the district. 



Gardening by the Boy Scouts in England.— The scouts' headquarters at Lon- 

 don has initiated garden work and awards badges to scouts who pass in the 

 following tests before their local committee: They must dig not less than 12 

 sq. ft. of ground, know the names of a dozen plants in an ordinary garden, 

 understand what is meant by pruning, grafting, and manuring, must plant and 

 srow successfully 6 kinds of vegetables or flowers from seeds or cuttings, and 

 must cut and make a walking stick or cut grass with a scythe under 

 supervision. 



This work may develop into a garden club in which each member takes one 

 or more shares and is marked for attendance at garden working hours besides 

 receiving a ixjrcentage on all his sales. A club of this kind has been formed 

 in Macclesfield and at the end of the first year's work showed a considerable 

 profit in the form of dividends and bonus. 



Normal School Agriculture in Kansas.— The Kansas Manual Training Normal 

 School, Pittsburg. Kansas, offers agriculture as an elective in the third year 

 t)f its normal secondary courses, and also conducts a 2-year normal college 

 course with one semester each of instruction in soils, plant husbandry, animal 

 husbandry, farm manufactures, and agricultural bacteriology. This college 

 course also includes zoology and botany as required subjects and biology, 

 physics, and physiography as electives. 



The institution also offers both secondary and collegiate courses in domestic 

 science and art, the secondary course extending over four years and the 

 collegiate course two years. 



Agriculture at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College.— Ac- 

 cording to the Trucker and Farmer for January, the State Normal and Indus- 

 trial College of North Carolina has organized an agricultural department. 

 This includes particularly such work as will be useful for the women and the 

 teachers of the State— landscajie gardening, dairying, school gardening, poultry 

 raising, etc. The college is also cooi)erating with this Department in its farm 

 demonstration work, and especially in the organization of tomato clubs. 



Home Study Course in Agriculture for Teachers.— The State Normal School 

 at Madison, S. Dak., has organized four new courses which are intended to 

 give teachers in service a knowledge of the essential facts of agriculture, and 

 an acquaintance with practical methods of work for rural and village schools. 

 The courses include studies in soils, farm crops, farm animals, and agricultural 



biology. 



A New School of Agriculture.— The Chautauqua Institution has added a 

 school of practical agriculture to its other activities. Hereafter agriculture 

 will be taught both as a course in the regular summer schools, and in the new 

 school where students will live on the new 110-acre farm near the institution 

 grounds. 



It is announced that the school will be equipped as rapidly as possible with 

 pure-bred animals and improved machinery, and that suitable buildings will 



