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father, tlie Into .laiiios Masuii. of Kyuslian Hall. Oxon. who for many years con- 

 ducted on bis own estate extensive experiments on the influence of leguminous 

 crops on fertility. Tlie new laboratory is said to be the only one in England de- 

 voted exchisivcly to the sludy i>{' ngi'icnllural liadcriology. 



Agricultural Education at the American Institute of Instruction. — The 

 se\('iity-sixth annual (■(inveiitinn of the .Viiicrican Institute of Inslructii)n was 

 held at \ew Haven, Conn., .luly '.i li'. In the dei)artment of rural education 

 the pai)ers and discussions were devoted largely to the subject of elementary 

 agriculture. Hon. Walt(>r K. Itangei-. comnussioner of public schools in Provi- 

 dence, and Mr. Franlc V. Murdiick. principal of the North Adams, Mass., Normal 

 School, discussed The Significance of the Report of the Massachusetts Commis- 

 sion on Industrial Education. I Inn. Mason E. Stone, superintendent of educa- 

 tion of Vermont, and Dr. W'illiani V. Brooks, of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, consideicd tlic subject Have the rrinci])les of .\griculture a Legiti- 

 mate Place in the Curricula of the New England Public Schools? The School 

 Garden as an Instrument of Sound Education was the subject of a paper by 

 W. H. Baldwin, principal of the State Normal School at Hyannis. Mass., and 

 The I'reparation of Teachers for School Garden Work was presented by H. D. 

 Ilemenway. of Westchester, Conn. 



California Polytechnic School. — A new two-story domestic science ijuilding, 

 -11.' by 1<>:; feet, is just jyeing completed. It contains on the first floor an office 

 and receiJtion I'oom. 2 sewing rooms with adjoining cloak room, closets, and fit- 

 ting room, a lecture room and a class room for classes in botany with adjoining 

 office and herbarium. On the second floor are the kitchen, laboratory, pantry, 

 butler's pantry, lockers, dining room, office, 2 class rooms (one for bookkeeping), 

 and rest room. 



Agricultural High Schoils in Georgia. — The last general assembly of Georgia 

 passd a law establishing 11 Congressional agricultural high schools as branches 

 of the State College of Agricidture, to be under the general supervision of the 

 board of trustees of the University of Georgia. Each school will receive for 

 maintenance an ecpial share of the inspection fees collected by the State depart- 

 ment of agriculture not otherwise appropriated, amounting as now estimated to 

 about .$(>.(I00 a year, but the different localities in which the schools are located 

 must furnish not less than 200 acres of land and the necessary equipment. The 

 course of study wilf be limited to the English branches, agriculture, farm me- 

 chanics, and such other studies as will admit a boy to the freshman class of the 

 State College of .\gricultnre. it is contemplated that the boys will perform .ill 

 the work on the' farms and al)out the school jn'operty. and will receive wages 

 from the proceeds of the farms. 



New Agricultural High Schools. — The school board of Cecil County, ]Md., has 

 decided to open this fall an agricultural high school at Calvert, in the northern 

 part of the ccmnty. and has engaged Mr. II. O. Sampson, of this Department, as 

 superintendent and teacher of agriculture. The recent legislature of the State 

 p.isscd an mt ivijuiring agriculture to be taught for at least one year during a 

 ( hild's connection with the public schools, and this subject will .ippear in the 

 next manual of studies issued by the State superintendent of pui)lic instruction. 



A new high school has been opened at Petersham, Mass.. with a course in 

 agriculture. Edwin II. Scott, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, is instructor in that department. ;Much interest has been exhibited in the 

 l)rovision of this new course, which was equii)iied in advance of any other de- 

 partment in the school. 



Marinette County, Wis., is erecting a liuilding for a new agricultural high 



