400 EXPEKIMENT STATIOIST KECOED. 



West Virginia University. — President Thomas E. Hodges resigned August 1 to 

 become a candidate for Congressman at Large. Dr. Frank B. Trotter, dean of 

 tlae college of arts, has been appointed acting president. 



G. L. Oliver has been appointed extension instructor in dairying in coopera- 

 tion with the Dairy Division of this Department. C. L. Hartley has been 

 appointed assistant to the director in agricultural extension. 



Agricultural Grants of the General Education Board. — The Journal of Educa- 

 tion announces that at the spring meeting of the board appropriations aggre- 

 gating $1,400,000 were allotted. Among the items were $36,500 for the mainte- 

 nance of rural school supervision in the Southern States, $20,000 for farm 

 demonstration work in six counties in Maine, $10,000 for similar work in New 

 Hampshire, and .$50,000 for rural school agents to work in connection with 

 state departments of education in 15 States. 



Spanish Railways and Agriculture. — A Spanish railway in the Province of 

 Soria, to improve agricultural conditions, has provided its stations with small 

 agricultural museums supplied with various kinds of useful information, such 

 as formulas for fertlizers and their use, methods of buying fertilizing material, 

 addresses of houses selling machinery, seeds, plants, live stock, etc., directions 

 for organizing agricultural societies, the manner of soliciting appropriations 

 from the central government, construction of district roads, and details of dif- 

 ferent industries which might be introduced with success in the province. 

 Experiment fields showing how to use fertilizers have been established near the 

 different stations by the Central Experiment Station Service of Madrid, and 

 lectures given on their proper use. Demonstrations of agricultural machinery 

 have been made by local agents of manufacturers. As a result Soria has been 

 making noteworthy progress in agriculture. 



Agricultural Education in India. — The American Presbyterian Mission is ac- 

 quiring 53 acres near Allahnbad to establish a fully equipped agricultural de- 

 partment for experimental work in connection with the Ewing Christian 

 College at Allahabad. It will be in charge of Samuel Higginbottom, an Ameri- 

 can missionary, who has already introduced numerous important improvements 

 in agricultural methods among native farmers near Allahabad. 



Miscellaneous. — Peter Waite, of Adelaide, has given to the University of 

 Adelaide his house and grounds at Urrbrae, embracing an area of 134 acres, 

 half of the land to be available for the university for agricultural and kindred 

 subjects and the balance as a public park under its control. He has also given 

 to the government of South Australia 114 acres adjoining Urrbrae for the estab- 

 lishment of an agricultural high school. 



Officers in the department of rural and agricultural education of the National 

 Education Association were chosen at the St. Paul meeting July 4-11 as fol- 

 lows : President, E. C. Bishop, of the Iowa College; vice president, M. J. Abbey, 

 of the .West Virginia University; and secretary, F. L. Griffin, of the Oregon 

 College. 



The Italian minister of agriculture has recently authorized the transforma- 

 tion of the Royal School of Agriculture, at S. Ilario Ligure, into a colonial 

 agricultural school with a 3-year course for the training of students in prac- 

 tical farming in the Italian colonies. 



Leonard S. Klinck, professor of cereal husbandry at MacDonald College, has 

 been appointed dean of the College of Agriculture of the British Columbia 

 University, now in process of establishment. 



