400 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Provision was also made for tlie establishmeut of county agricultural and 

 training schools and their joint maintenance by the State and the county 

 wherein they are located. The yearly cost of maintenance of each of these 

 schools is not to exceed $6,000 per year, of which the State pays one-half and 

 the county the remainder. 



Appropriations for District Agricultural Schools in Oklahoma.— Under the 

 Oklahoma laws of VJll the district agricultural schools at Wanier, Tishomingo, 

 Broken Arrow, Lawton, and Helena are each to receive state aid to the extent 

 of $17,000 for 1912 and $19,000 for 1913, while the more recently organized 

 school at Goodwell will receive during the same years $11,000 and $13,000. 

 respectively. 



Agricultural Education in Canadian Secondary Schools. — By a recent amend- 

 ment to the regulations for agricultural education in high schools and continu- 

 ation schools by the Ontario Department of Education, the duties of the 

 teachers of agriculture under the ministers of agi-iculture and of education, 

 respectively, are now clearly defined. 



Local control is in the hands of an advisory agricultural committee com- 

 posed of 4 members of the school board and 4 other persons who are actively 

 engaged in agricultural pursuits. The agricultural teacher is hereafter to 

 conduct classes not only in the high-school center to which he has been ap- 

 pointed, but at other centers selected by the minister of education on the 

 application of their high-school or continuation-school boards. The minimum 

 length of a school class in agriculture is to be 4 weeks. Shorter classes for 

 farmers are provided under the authority of the minister of agriculture. 



The minister of education has appointed Prof. S. B. McCready, of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, inspector of these classes and director of elementary 

 agricultural education. 



Agriculture in Latin America. — The June number of the BuUetin of the Pan 

 American Union announces the inauguratiou last April of a government agri- 

 cultural school in the Potopoto Valley at Sopocachi, near La Paz, Bolivia. 

 Augustin Luna Pizarro, a practical agricultural engineer of wide experience 

 and a noted botanist, is director of the institution. It is probable that a 

 veterinary department will be added to this school later. 



On April 1 there was inaugurated the School of Agriculture for the Southern 

 Department of the Dominican Republic at San Cristobal. 



The National Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Salvador has pre- 

 scribed the duties and functions of the department of agriculture recently 

 esatblished, as follows: Supervision and inspection of municipal and interde- 

 partmental roads, establishmeut of produce exchanges, taking of the general 

 agricultural census, collection of taxes on agricultural products, regulation of 

 irrigation of lands, importation of new machinery for the cultivation and im- 

 provement of new agricultural products, establishment of fertilizer factories, 

 analysis of lands, development of commerce in general, and the establishment 

 of an information bureau. 



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