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Wyoming University. — Movabk' schools of agriculture liave been conducted at 

 Wliealiaud, Kasin. and Buffalo in addition to the regular eight weeks' short 

 course at the university. 



Experiment Station at Oaxaca, Mexico. — Plans have been completed for an 

 exiKTimcut sf.-ition at Oaxaca, Mexico. This will constitute the third experi- 

 ment station to be established under the direct supervision of the Federal (iov- 

 ernnient of Mexico through its dejiartnient of the interior, its predecessors being 

 those established at Rio Berde, in the State of San Luis Potosi. in 190G. and 

 at Ciudad Juarez, on the northern frontier, in 1908. 



A tract of several hundred acres has been acquired in the heart of the sugar 

 district and containing several of the more common soil types of the region. 

 An irrigation system has been installed, and extensive oivhards of peaches, 

 olives, oranges, and other fruits have been set out. Buildings are projected 

 to cost over $100,000, including offices, laboratories, a dairy and poultry plant, 

 residences for the director and other emiiloyees, warehouses, etc. An experi- 

 mental sugar mill, operated by electricity, is already completed. 



Special attention is to be given in the experimental work to the introduction, 

 acclimatization, and distribution of valuable plants from other sections of 

 Mexico and other countries, and to a study of the production and manufacture 

 of sugar. The instruction of some of the employees of neighboring estates in 

 improved methods is also contemplated. 



The directorship of the station has been intrusted to Felix Foix, who has 

 studied agricultural methods in France, England, the United States, and Mexico, 

 and has been engaged for the past ten years in experimental work in tropical 

 agriculture in Mexico. Juan Martinez has been api)ointed subdirector and 

 Emanuel S. Blanco and Jose M. Ortega additional members of the scientific staff. 

 The Virginia Association of Agricii^ural Schools. — ITuder this title an organi- 

 zation was effected at Richmond. November 24, 1909, of those interested in the 

 development of the new state system of agricultural high schools. The officers 

 for the coming year include Director S. W. Fletcher, of the Virginia Station, as 

 secretary-treasurer. Each principal, agricultural teacher, or director in the ten 

 state agricultural high schools is an ex officio vice-president of the association, 

 and these with the elective officers constitute the executive committee. It is 

 expected that the state board of education and the president of the Virginia 

 Polytechnic Institute will soon establish an authorized agricultural course for 

 these schools. 



State Agricultural School at Morrisville, N. Y. — F. G. Helyar, for 4 years head 

 of the agricultural department of the Moody School for Roys at Mount Hermon, 

 Mass., has been elected principal of the new agricultural school at Morrisville, 

 N. Y. The buildings formerly used for the county court and offices of Madison 

 County are to be at once arranged for class rooms and an auditorium, domestic 

 science work, dairy laboratory, mechanical shops, and principal's residence. 

 Greeenhouses will be erected near the shops. 



Smith's Agricultural School. — A somewhat unique meeting of the Connecticut 

 Valley Breeders' Association was held at this school January 2.5. Lectures and 

 practical demonstrations were given by George M. Rommel, of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry of this department, and Charles W. Bo'sworth, a horse breeder 

 on an extensive scale, the auditorium and arena being utilized for the exercises. 

 Lunch was furnished by the domestic science classes of the school, and extensive 

 exhibits of its various industrial phases were on view. About 500 people were in 

 attendance, to most of whom the illustration in concrete form of the functions of 

 u school of this type was a distinct revelation. 



New England Conference on Rural Progress, — At the fourth annual meeting of 

 this conference at Boston, March 4, addresses were given by President K. L. 



