EDITORIAL. 405 



State of New Hampshire for a state college of agriculture, to be 

 located on his farm. The conditions of the will were accepted by 

 the State March 5, 1891, and in consequence the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, then located in Hanover 

 as a department of Dartmouth College, was removed to Durham. 

 This necessitated the abandonment of an earlier gift by the Hon. 

 John Conant of 360 acres of land at Hanover, which had been used 

 as a college and station farm. The Thompson bequest became avail- 

 able in 1910, when it amounted to nearly $800,000. 



The Storrs Agricultural School, now the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural College, owes its establishment and present location largely to 

 the gifts of the Storrs family in 1881, a farm of 170 acres and several 

 buildings being given by Mr. Augustus Storrs for the purpose, and 

 Mr. Charles Storrs contributing $6,000. In 1906 a legacy of the late 

 Edwin Gilbert bequeathed to the college a farm at Georgetown, 

 Conn., of about 356 acres with buildings and equipment, for mainte- 

 nance by the college for the purpose of teaching agriculture, to- 

 gether with $60,000 for caring for the farm and for instruction. 



In the same year the University of California was designated as 

 the beneficiary of a bequest by the late M. Theodore Kearne}^, of 

 Fresno, of an estate of 5,400 acres, valued at about one million 

 dollars. Considerable litigation resulted, but the case was eventu- 

 ally decided in favor of the universit}', which came into possession 

 of the property in 1910. This munificent gift is to be used by the 

 college of agriculture and the experiment station for agricultural 

 instruction and research, and affords unusual opportunity for experi- 

 ments of interest to the San Joaquin Valley. 



An estate of about $40,000 was bequeathed by Mr. Philip Weiser, 

 of Lander, Wyo., for an agricultural college at that location. A 

 long period of litigation followed as to the location of the land-grant 

 institution, which was eventually decided in favor of the state 

 university at Laramie. 



Numerous donations for the introduction of agriculture into the 

 curriculum of private institutions have been reported. An anony- 

 mous gift to Columbia University of $15,000 for agricultural educa- 

 tion was announced in 1910, and Mr. William Blodgett has given a 

 farm of 750 acres at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, which it is planned to 

 develop as an agricultural school. Messrs. George and William W. 

 Mathes in 1901 gave $10,000 to Union Academy, Belleville, N. Y., 

 for this purpose, and through the late Mrs. Phoebe Strawn Illinois 

 College, at Jacksonville, received $20,000 and inaugurated with it a 

 course in secondary agriculture. The establishment of a secondar}^ 

 school of agriculture at Lyndonville, Vt., was effected in 1910 through 

 a gift of Mr. Theodore N. Vail, whose great estate in the vicinity 



