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Wisconsin University. — A department of veterinary science has been estab- 

 lislied with Dr. F. B. Hadley as chairman of the department, as well as veter- 

 inarian to the station. A small amount of work has been given during the 

 past few years to agricultural students along this line, but this will now be 

 enlarged. The new department has offices, a dispensary, and dissecting and 

 operating rooms in the new live stock pavilion. 



K. L. Hatch has been promoted to the associate professorship of agricultural 

 education and extension, and J. G. Halpin to that of poultry husbandry. 

 Other appointments include F. B. ;Morrison as assistant to the dean and 

 director, A. C. Burrill as assistant in economic entomology, F. J. Kelley as 

 assistant in experimental breeding, T. J. McCai-thy as assistant in horticulture, 

 and L. H. Schwartz as assistant in poultry husbandry. 



Vocational Agricultural Schools. — The Massachusetts legislature has recently 

 made it possible for a vocational agricultural school to be established by a 

 town or a group of towns formed into a district. If such a school is approved 

 "by the board of education as to organization, control, location, equipment, 

 courses of study, qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, conditions 

 of admission, employment of pupils, and exiienditures of money," the town 

 or district supporting it will be reimbursed by the State to the extent of one- 

 half the maintenance cost which has been paid by local taxation. 



Ten thousand dollars was also appropriated for aiding in the establishment 

 of the vocational agricultural departments in selected high schools. These 

 departments are to be subject to the approval of the board of education in all 

 the particulars above cited in connection with the agricultural schools. Towns 

 providing approved departments will be reimbursed to the extent of two-thirds 

 of the amount of salary paid the agricultural instructor. This agricultural 

 instructor must devote himself exclusively to the supervision of agricultural 

 projects, to be carried out by his students chiefly at their homes, and to giving 

 instruction in the various phases of agricultural science required for the suc- 

 cessful understanding and prosecution of those subjects. 



New Agricultural School in Nebraska. — At the last meeting of the Nebraska 

 legislature a bill was iiassed providing for a new $100,000 agricultural school. 

 The school is to be known as the Nebraska School of Agriculture and will be 

 under the control and management of the board of regents of the University 

 of Nebraska. It is to be located at Curtiss on a 20-acre campus within the 

 city limits and will also own and use for demonstration and other purposes a 

 413-acre farm. The law provides for (1) one laboratory building, not less 

 than 2 live stock barns, and the necessary sheds, pens, and inclosures, com- 

 plete, at an estimated cost not to exceed $75,000; (2) furnishings not to exceed 

 $10,000; and (3) necessary equipment, such as farm implements and live stock, 

 $15,000. 



Agriculture in Wisconsin Schools. — The Wisconsin laws of 1911 provide for 

 State aid of $250 when a department of agriculture is established in connection 

 with any free high school. If the department extends to three grades below 

 the high school this sum is increased to $.350. 



Agriculture in North Dakota Schools. — At the recent session of the North 

 Dakota legislature provision was made for the establishment and maintenance 

 of a department of agriculture, manual training, and domestic economy in 

 state high, graded, and consolidated schools. To derive aid to the extent of 

 $2,500. each of these schools must, among other things, employ trained instruc- 

 tors in agriculture, manual training, and domestic science, and have within one 

 mile of the school buildings not less, than 10 acres of land suitable for a school 

 garden and purposes of demonstration. 



