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The Wiener Landirirtsehaftliche Zritmif; is authority for the statement that 

 ill l!tor»-() there were 1!»() scliools in Austria .yivinj; instruction in agriculture 

 and rnrestry. Tins is an increase of 4 over the previous year, the new schools 

 licin.i,' the a^a-iciiltura! winter schools at Spittal-on-the-Drau. in ("arnithia, and 

 at Lubcza. in Galicia. the clciiicnlary fnrcstry sclinni al Klat:eiifurt, in Car- 

 nlthia, and the farm school at I)ij,'nano. in Istria. The I'.X) institutions include 

 2 high school institutes, 8 agricultural academies, 9 agricultural high schools, 

 .") forestry high schools. 112 high schools for viticulture, jioinology. and horticul- 

 ture. 1 high school for the hrcwing industry, 41 f.inii sclniols or elementary 

 agricultural schools with one-year courses, 78 agricultural winter schools. 10 

 elementary forestry schools. IC dairy and housekeeping schools. 24 elementary 

 special schools for li()rticultur<>. iioniology. viticulture, liop ciil1nr<'. alpine farm- 

 ing, and apiculture. 2 brewing and 2 distillery schools. 



The attendance at the royal agricultural high school at X'ienna for 1905-6 

 was COS for the first semester and (111 for the second semester. In the first 

 semester 590 of the students were regular ;iiid IS s])eci;il. In the second 

 semester 554 were regular and 57 special. About 4.S per cent of all the students 

 were enrolled in forestry courses. 



A chair of agricultural-technological chemistr.v has been established at the 

 jiolytechnic high school, Copenhagen, and Dr. Orla Jensen has been appointed 

 to the position. The studies will be devoted principally to the utilization of 

 milk and meat, and will include ( 1 ) llie production and chemistry of milk, the 

 bacteriology of milk, its uses for food, milk powder, casein, cream, butter, an<l 

 cheese, aud dairy associations, and (2) the production of meat and bacon, 

 methods of pickling or salting, chemistry of pickling or salting, canned meat 

 products, and the arrangement of slaughter houses for pigs. 



The Queensland Agricultural College has been giving training courses in 

 agriculture for teachers in St.ati^ schools, and as a result some instruction in 

 agricultiu'e has been given in a number of schools. A movement has also been 

 started to offer prizes for school gardens in the different districts of Queens- 

 land, and the Queensland department of agriculture has agreed to instruct its 

 experts to visit country schools as far as practicable and give the pupils and 

 teachers guidance and help. 



The practical school of viticulture, established in 1893 at Praz sur Vevey, 

 was discontinued in 1905 owing to the fact that the sons of the vine growers 

 could not be spared during the busy season. In place of the regular school the 

 Canton of Yand has conducted successful short courses in arboriculture, viticul- 

 ture, .-iiid tile ntilization of fruits. Such courses are anuoiniced for the autumn 



n\' 1'.I(I7. 



Y. M. C. A. Agricultural Clubs. — The educational department of the interna- 

 tional committee of Young Men's Christiiln Associations lias entered upon a 

 campaign to encourage the associations in different parts of the country to 

 start boys* agricultural clubs and boys' gardens as means of employing profitably 

 the time of the younger members when pleasant weather out of doors attracts 

 them away from the association rooms. A leaflet has been ])ul)lished giving 

 suggestions for organizing the clubs and conducting the gardens. 



Department of School Gardens. — The New York University, in its announce- 

 ments for the summer school of 1907, includes an announcement for the depart- 

 ment of school gardens under the direction of H. G. Parsons, who conducted 

 successfully a similar department in lOOO. It is propos(>d to combine lectures 

 and laboratory wmk on soils, [ilants. an<l otiier tedmiral matters relating to 

 gardening, with a study of problems concerning llie li;indling of children's 

 gardens and the social features of such work. 



