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University. A bequest of the late Major Henry E. Alvord to the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College for a dairy scholarship was made 

 public in 1905. There have also been many bequests for the aid of 

 worthy students in these institutions. 



Since 190G, $5,000 per annum has been distributed among the state 

 agricultural colleges in 20 scholarships, which are competed for at the 

 International Live Stock Exposition in accordance with an offer of 

 Mr. J. Ogden Armour. Eosenbaum Brothers of Chicago have also 

 offered $1,000 per annum in prizes to the colleges in connection with 

 the exposition, and other donations have been made from time to 

 time. 



A unique form of financial assistance are the industrial research 

 fellowships at the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. 

 Several of these have been offered for short periods by firms of 

 manufacturers of agricultural implements and supplies, small sums 

 being provided for the salaries and expenses of investigators along 

 lines of work of mutual interest. The five fellowships thus far an- 

 nounced have dealt respectively with the value of commercial lime- 

 sulphur mixtures as fungicides, the diseases of nurserj^ stock, the 

 effect of cement dust on the setting of fruit, the diseases of New York 

 apple trees, and the nature and control of fungus diseases and insect 

 pests of orchards in a given locality. The last two of these are sup- 

 ported by local fruit growers' associations. 



Along extension lines, important assistance to agriculture is being 

 rendered by the various railway systems, often in the form of direct 

 contributions to the agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 for cooperative work, notably dry farming and other demonstration 

 farms, the gifts of land for these purposes, the providing free of 

 cost of the rolling stock for the better- farming trains so numerous 

 in recent years, and frequently in the offering of scholarships to 

 boys living along the railway lines. The farmers' cooperative dem- 

 onstration work which this Department has been conducting in the 

 South has received for several years the cooperation of the General 

 Education Board of New York City, and considerable sums have 

 also been donated by boards of trade and other local organizations. 



Two bequests for permanent local demonstration work have 

 recently become available in Massachusetts. One of these is the Faunce 

 bequest, at Sandwich, of a farm of about two hundred and fifty acres 

 and about $20,000 by a local physician, for use in benefiting the 

 people of the county agriculturally. This bequest is being utilized in 

 active cooperation with the Massachusetts Agricultural College, as a 

 part of its extension activities. The second was one of $100,000 to 

 the town of Harclwick, by the late Mr. Calvin Paige, a former resi- 

 dent. The income of this bequest is to be utilized to further the 

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