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tLiiryiiij;, poultry f;iruiing, chemistry, botany, eutoiuology, mechanics, mensura- 

 tion, surveying, irrigation, agricultural engineering, and bookkeeping, and all 

 kinds of practical work on the farm and in the dairy and shops. For the 

 present applicants will be admitted from the seventh grade, but after January 

 1, 1913. only students who hold the matriculation examination certificate of 

 the Cape University, or its equivalent, will be admitted. Numerous scholar- 

 ships are available, including one of $729 a year, tenable for 2 or 3 years, to 

 be awarded annually for advanced and specialized study abroad. 



Short courses will be conducted during vacation periods in such subjects as 

 irrigation, butter and cheese making, etc., provided sufficient funds are available. 



Normal School Agricultural Institute. — The Central State Normal School, 

 ^It. IMeasant, Mich., uiuiounees a five-day institute on agricultural and rural 

 topics. The heads of the departments of chemistry, bacteriology, soils, horti- 

 culture, and forestry of the Michigan Agricultural College and members of the 

 agricultural and home economics faculty of the normal school will discuss their 

 subjects in relation to the rural schools, and a representative of the state 

 grange will discuss The New Rural Sociology. There will also be discussions 

 of the new rural spirit and conferences on various subjects taught in the rural 

 schools. 



An Agricultural High School in a Normal School. — The Third District Normal 

 School, at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in addition to its regular courses for teachers, 

 is conducting an agricultural high school. The work includes (1) a four-year 

 secondary course intended to fit young men either for farm life or to enter 

 an agricultural college, (2) a boys' short course, running 6 weeks in winter and 

 confined to farm mechanics and agricultural science, and (3) a school for 

 farmers, lasting from 10 days to 2 weeks. 



National Farm School. — Pennsylvania Hall, the new dormitory recently 

 erected by the State of Pennsylvania, was dedicated June 4 by Governor John 

 K. Teuer. Between six and seven hundred visitors were in attendance. Among 

 other addresses was one by Jacob A. Riis, of New York City, and one by 

 ex-Senator Lafayette Young of Iowa. 



Agriculture in a Trades School. — The trustees of the Williamson Fi-ee School 

 of Mechanical Trades, which is located about 16 miles from Philadelphia in 

 Delaware County, Pa., have decided to add agriculture to the list of 5 trades 

 now taught in the school. The work of the institution is of elementary grade. 



School Farms. — According to the Farm and Fireside of April 25, the superin- 

 tendent of schools in Wake County, N. C, assisted by the Women's Betterment 

 Association of the county, has successfully inaugurated 11 school farms, each 

 having an area of about 2 acres and planted to cotton, tobacco, corn, and 

 wheat. These are conducted in connection with rural schools, and are worked 

 by both children and adults, each work-day on the school farms being made a 

 social event. Over 1,200 i^ersons have participated in the work. 



Agriculture in the Public Schools. — According to a recent issue of Deseret 

 Farmer, the state board of education of Utah has provided that every accredited 

 high school in the State must teach agriculture in order to participate in the 

 maintenance fund provided for high schools. 



A New Agricultural School in Yucatan, Mexico. — An agricultural school is 

 soon to be established in the State of Yucatan by the department of promotion, 

 acting conjointly with the governor of Yucatan. In connection with the agri- 

 cultural school there will be a department for instruction in the various crafts. 

 The entire institution will be known as the Lorenzo Ancona Castillo School, 

 and will be in charge of a president to be selected annually. The gi'ound for 

 the building has been selected and the plans of some of the buildings prepared. 



