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Secondary Agricultural Schools in Arkansas. — The four district agricultural 

 schools provided for by the Arkansas legislature have been located as follows: 

 First district, Jouesboro. secoud district, Russellville, third district, Magnolia, 

 fourth district, Mouticello. The Russellville school will open in the fall of 

 1910, with A. K. Short, formerly animal husbandman of the Arkansas College 

 and Station, in charge as itrincipnl. 



The legislature has appropriated $350,000 for the equipment of these schools, 

 and it is hoped to augment this materially by contributions from the localities 

 in which the schools are to be located. 



Morrill Centennial Exercises. — Memorial exercises in honor of the one hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the birth of Hon. Justin S. Morrill were held April 14 at 

 Montpelier, Vt. The principal eulogy was delivered by President- M. H. Buck- 

 ham, of the University of Vermont. In this tribute President Ruckham dwelt 

 especially on Senator Morrill's work in connection with the founding and en- 

 dowment of the land-grant colleges, characterizing this as the last and greatest 

 of his public measures. 



Federal Insecticide and Fungicide Law. — Under an act signed by President 

 Taft April 26, the manufacture, sale, or transportation in interstate commerce, 

 the District of Columbia, or the Territories, of adulterated or misbranded 

 Paris green, lead arsenate, and other insecticides and fungicides is prohibited 

 after January 1, 11)11. at which time the act goes into effect. 



The law corresponds in a general way to the federal food and drugs act of 

 1906. Rules and regulations for its enforcement are to be formulated by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor, but definitions and standards are adopted for most of 

 the principal products dealt with. Violations of the law constitute a miisde- 

 meanor, and are punishable by a fine or imprisonment or both. The analytical 

 work is to be under the direction and supervision of the Bureau of Chemistry 

 of this Department. 



Necrology. — J. S. Newman, one of the pioneer workers for southern agricul- 

 tural advancement and identified with its interests for nearly thirty years, died 

 May 11, at Walhalla, S..C., at the age of 74 years. 



Professor Newman was born in Orange County, Va., in 1836, and was gradu- 

 ated from the University of Virginia in 1859. He served in the Confederate 

 Army during the greater part of the civil war, and at its close engaged in farm- 

 ing in Virginia and Georgia, and taught a private school until 1875. In that 

 year he became secretary of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, continuing 

 in this position for eight years. 



In 1883 he was elected to the chair of agriculture in the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute. Upon the establishment of the experiment station he was also made 

 director of the Alabama Station, and in this capacity organized and exercised 

 general supervision over its substations. He also organized the state agri- 

 cultural society, and served as its president for a number of years, and was 

 state statistical agent of this Department in connection with the crop reporting 

 service. In 1892 he accepted his final position at Clemson College as pro- 

 fessor of agriculture and vice director of the station, and with the exception 

 of a period from 1894 to 1897 spent in farming, continued in that capacity until 

 1905, when he acceptetl a pension from the Carnegie Foundation and retired to 

 private life. 



Professor Newman was married in 1863. Among his five children are Clifford 

 L. Newman, professor of agriculture at the North Carolina College, and Charles 

 C. Newman, horticulturist at the South Carolina Station. 



During his long career, Professor Newman was a frequent speaker at 

 farmers' institutes, agricultural societies and other farmers' gatherings in 



