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Riitterfield and Prof. W. I). Hurd, of the Maj^sachusetts Agricultural College, 

 and Dr. S. A. Kuapp, of this Department, on the organization of New England 

 associations for advancing agricultural education. Other speakers included 

 Prof. Floyd B. Jenks, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, State Superin- 

 tendent of Education Henry C. Morrison, of New Hampshire, President HoWard 

 Edwards, of Rhode Island College, and Principal R. W. Stimson, of Smith's 

 Agricultural School. 



A decision was reached by the conference to concentrate its energies in the 

 future mainly upon a single problem each year. For the ensuing year partici- 

 pation in the New England Corn Show, to be held at Worcester. Mass., in No- 

 vember, will bo given special attention. 



Agricultural Conference in New York. — An important meeting of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society was held at the capitol at Albany, January 18-20, 

 at which this body was reorganized and a strong program presented to the 250 

 members in attendance. 



The general subject was : What is Being Done and What Needs to be Done 

 in New York State for the Advancement of Agriculture, Especially Along 

 Educational Lines, and the papers were as follows : What the State Fair is 

 Doing to Advance the Agricultural Interests of New York State, by Lieutenant- 

 Governor Horace White; Agencies and Conditions Essential to Agricultural 

 Efficiency, by Director Jordan, of the New York State Station ; The Agricultural 

 Situation, by Dean Bailey, of Cornell University; A New Movement for the 

 Advancement of Agriculture in Northern New York, by Dean Herbert E. Cook, 

 of the State School of Agriculture at St. Lawrence University; What Could be 

 Done for the Advancement of Agriculture on Farms in Connection with 

 State Charitable and other lustitutionsV by Hon. Dennis McCarthy, fiscal 

 supervisor of state charities; Educational Aids to Improved Horticulture and 

 Imi)roved Animal Industry, by the respective presidents of the State Fruit 

 Growers' Association and the State Breeders' Association; Instruction in 

 Agriculture in Western New York, by President Boothe C. Davis, of Alfred 

 University; Aids to Agricultural Advancement in the Middle West, by Dean 

 E. Davenport, of the Illinois College and Station ; Agricultural Education, 

 by President Jacob G. Schurman, of Cornell University ; Improved Methods 

 of Agriculture, by President William C. Brown, of the New York Central Lines; 

 The Farmers' Institutes, by Edward Van Alstyne, conductor of farmers' insti- 

 tutes; The Farmei*'s View of Agricultural Education, by Frank N. Godfrey, 

 master of the State Grange; Schools of Agriculture, by D. J. Crosby, of this 

 Office; and Should the Public Schools Teach Agriculture, by Thomas E. Fine- 

 gan, of the state education department. 



Among the resolutions ado))ted were those deprecating the establishment in 

 New York at this time of sepai-ate schools of agriculture, advocating the teach- 

 ing of practical agriculture in existing high schools, favoring the utilization so 

 far as itracticable of county farms and the farms of the various state penal and 

 charitable institutions as demonstration farms for the benefit of their respective 

 communities, and appointing a committ'ee to confer with the governor, legisla- 

 tive leaders, and those in charge of educational work in the State, with a view 

 to formulating a definite policy in its work in agricultural education. 



The Country Church and Agriculture. — It is announced in New England Home- 

 fiteacl that Rev. C. O. Ormsbee, of Lenox, Mass., has arranged a course of lec- 

 tures by specialists on various phases of rural life. Profs. W. P. Brooks and 

 W. D. Hurd, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, have already given lec- 

 tures, the former discussing agriculture in Japan and the latter corn production. 

 Other members of the faculty are to participate later. 



