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The losislatiire passed a delicioiicy bill for the collef^e amountiiif; to .$171),- 

 530.02, whic-li liifluded .1^85,000 for the eoiupletion of the new agricultural build- 

 ing. The contract for finishing the new building has been let. The total 

 ai)proi)rlations for the agricultural and dairy buildings. Including the heating 

 tunnel, have been $284,109.60. The general appropriation bill for the college 

 carried $274,000. A special item of $70,000 was included in the bill for the 

 school of agriculture and $4,000 for experiments on tol)a(co by the station. 



Rhode Island Station. — E. A. Mallette, who has been in the employ of the 

 liorticultiiura! department for a few months, has been appointed a member of 

 the station staff. 



South Dakota Station. — A deiiartnient of dairy industry has been added to the 

 station. W. A. Wheeler, for the past two years botanist and entomologist in 

 the station, has resigned, and is succeeded by Edgar W. Olive, I*h. D., of the 

 University of Wisconsin. Doctor Olive will have charge of the botanical work 

 and an assistant will be provided to take charge of the entomological work. 



West Virginia University. — T. C. Johnson, instructor in horticulture and 

 botany in the college of agriculture, has been made assistant professor of these 

 sub.jec-ts, and D. W. Working, of Denver, Colo., and formerly on the editorial 

 staff of Avicrican Graiific BuUctin, has been appointed superintendent of agri- 

 cultural extension teaching. The establishment of a department of highway 

 construction in the college of agriculture has been authorized. 



Macdonald Agricultural College. — A provisional announcement of tliis institu- 

 tion, which is to open this fall, has been issued by the principal. Dr. J. W. 

 Robertson. Three departments have been organized — a school for teachers, a 

 school of agriculture, and a school of household science. The requirements for 

 admission to the school for teachers are similar to those which have been in 

 force at the McGill Normal School. Other teachers will be admitted under 

 certain regulations for courses in nature study, school gardening, household 

 science, and manual training. Candidates for admission to the school of agri- 

 c-ultui"e must have worked for a season on a Canadian farm. No entrance 

 examination is retiuired of short-course students, but all candidates for the 

 one and two year courses in agriculture and household science will be required 

 to pass an examination in the elementary branches. 



Secondary Education in Canada. — The ex])eriment of introducing agriculture 

 into some of the high schools of Canada is about to be tried. It iw proposed to 

 make a grant to each high school that will establish a class in agriculture and 

 agree to appoint a teacher recommended by the department of agriculture. A 

 plat of ground for demonstration or experimental purposes must be provided, 

 the classes specializing according to the agricultural needs and conditions of the 

 districts in which the schools are located. The teachers' time is. to be devoted 

 exclusively to agricultural work, but any time not required by their respective 

 schools is to be available for assisting and encouraging agriculture and nature 

 study in rural schools and in sending the department of agriculture informa- 

 tion regarding pests, new and interesting develoi)ments in connection with 

 farming, (>tc. 



Agricultural and Industrial School for Korea.— .J. Arthur Thom[)son, a gradu- 

 ate of the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, is on his way to 

 Korea to assist in the establishment of an agricultural and industrial sciiool. 

 Ill' is Ix'ing sent by the Methodist Conference, and spent a year at Hampton 

 Normal and Agricultural Institute preparing for the work. The people of 

 Korea have raised $1,000 to establish the school, and the land has been pur- 

 chased. On his arrival at Sougdo, Korea, Mr. Thompson will begin his new 



