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recognized. The days when a Itotanical garden served the purpose of an entire 

 scientific establishment in a colony have passed away, and we now require, in 

 order that a proper return should be obtained and the natives assisted in their 

 agricultural practice, a scientific department with a proper complement of speci- 

 ally trained officers, including a consiilting chemist, other specialists being added 

 to the staff as the requirements arise. These officers should be remunerated on 

 a scale likely to attract some of the best educated men from this country, which 

 is at present far from being the case." 



Macdonald College. — Sir William Macdonald, who established the institution 

 at St. Anne de Bellevne, has deeded the ]iroporty to McGill University and pro- 

 vided an endowment of .'i!2,(>00,(X)(>, besides the plant. A main building, build- 

 ings for agriculture and horticulture, for chemistry and physics, for biology 

 and bacteriology, are in process of construction, together with a boys' and a 

 girls' building, a horticultural barn, and a power house. 



All of the buildings are substantially built of brick, iron, and concrete, 

 with partitions of fireproof hollow tile and floors of concrete with wood laid on 

 top in certain of the rooms. The walls are lined inside with hollow tiles, so 

 as to give a dead air space. The construction is very thorough in every respect. 

 The buildings are to be heated from a central heating plant, with a compre- 

 hensive ventilating system. Several of them are connected by underground 

 passages, to be used in bad weather. It is expected that the buildings will be 

 ready for occupancy in the fall of 1907. They will provide accommodations for 

 about 400 pupils — 175 men and 22.5 women. The school has a farm of about 

 560 acres, a part of which is in cultivation. One of the farms purchased was 

 provided with large barns for cattle, and considerable stock is being kept there. 

 The college will have a large poultry plant and extensive rooms for showing 

 agricultural machinery. 



In addition to training boys and girls for farm life, a regular normal depart- 

 ment will be conducted for the training of teachers, with a special view to 

 providing persons suited to teaching elementary agriculture, nature study, and 

 the like. Although affiliated with McGill University, the faculty of the college 

 will dictate as to the courses except such as lead to degrees. 



Elementary Agricultural Education. — The Morgan Township High School, 

 located at Okeana, Butler t'ounty, Ohio, has introduced elementary agriculture, 

 and a class of 9 students is taking the work this year. There is also in the 

 school an agricultural club, organized under the direction of the Ohio State 

 University. 



The committee on education of the Ohio State Grange has undertaken an 

 active campaign for the study of agriculture and domestic science in the sub- 

 ordinate granges of the State, under the direction of the college of agriculture 

 and domestic science of the Ohio State University. The committee having this 

 work in charge has issued a number of educational circulars and two bulletins, 

 one setting forth the objects of the work and giving an outline of a course of 

 study and reading on the soil and its management, and the other an outline 

 and course of study on farm crops and gardening. 



The college of agriculture of Illinois University has added an instructor this 

 year for the purpose of preparing prospective teachers of agriculture and to 

 determine what phases of agriculture seem best adapted for introduction into 

 public schools. A small class of college students has taken up this work. 



The County Superintendents' Association of Indiana has forwarded to 

 I'urdue University a formal reciuest to organize a training school for teachers 

 in agriculture and nature study. 



The OkUthoiiia School Herald is running a department of agriculture, edited 

 by E. E. Balcomb, teacher of agricidture in the Southwestern Normal School. 



