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pavilion 100 by 120 feet, the provision of space for instruction in farm ma- 

 chinery, and a revision of the courses of instruction. 



Virginia College and Station. — Lyman Carrier, agronomist since 1907, has 

 accepted a position with the Office of Forage Crop Investigations of this De- 

 partment, and has been succeeded by T. B. Hutcheson, associate professor in 

 plant breeding in the University of Minnesota and associate in the station. 

 W. K. Brainerd, professor of dairying and dairy husbandman, has accepted a 

 position with the Dairy Division of this Department. 



Virginia Truck Station. — The station office building has been doubled in size 

 and a new building for farm implements and storage and a new insectary have 

 been erected. 



Washington College and Station. — M. A. McCall has been appointed vice 

 director of the dry-land department vice H. E. Goldsworthy, resigned, and with 

 headquarters at Lind. T. J. Newbill of Portland, Oreg., has been appointed 

 state leader of boys' and girls' club work, and R. N. Miller, farm efficiency 

 agent. In the station A. L. Sherman has been appointed assistant chemist and 

 F. W. Allen assistant horticulturist vice W. J. Young, resigned. 



New York Commission on Bovine Tuberculosis. — A commission to study the 

 causes of bovine tuberculosis and its economic and health effects on the State 

 has been authorized by the New York legislature. This commission has been 

 appointed by Governor Glynn as follows : Dr. Theobald Smith, director of the 

 division of animal pathology of the Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Hermann M. 

 Biggs, commissioner of health; Dr. Linsly M. Williams, deputy commissioner 

 of health ; Dr. Philip Van Ingen of the New York Milk Commission ; Dr. Henry 

 L. K. Shaw, professor of children's diseases, Albany Medical College; Hon. 

 Seth Low, of New York City ; and Dean V. A. Moore of the New York State 

 Veterinary College of Cornell University. 



Agriculture at the National Education Association.— The program of the Na- 

 tional Education Association at St. Paul, Minn., July 4-11, indicates the unusual 

 recognition given to agricultural education at this meeting. 



As in former years, the question of the training of teachers for the rural 

 schools brought out much discussion. In a paper before the Department of 

 Rural and Agricultural Etlucation. on The Course in Agriculture for Training 

 Teachers in Normal Training High Schools, A. Y. Storm maintained that the 

 rural school is the most important educational factor and the preparation of 

 the rural school-teacher the most important educational task. Inasmuch as 

 the normal schools will not be able to supply the demand for rural teachers 

 for years to come the public high schools must shoulder the burden. A large 

 majority of rural teachers are women, many of whom are feared in town, so 

 they must be taught agriculture from the farmers' point of view and must 

 study rural conditions as well as agincultural text-books. He outlined the 

 work that ought to be done as including (1) a knowledge of some of the under- 

 lying principles of education and consequently of teaching. (2) the organization 

 of agricultural subject-matter to be taught in accordance with these principles, 

 which includes the amount, selection, sequence, arrangement, and units to fit 

 the conditions of a rural elementary school, (3) some understanding of the 

 principles, processes, and practices to be followed in the presentation of this 

 subject-matter through the classroom, the home project, and the community 

 work, and (4) actual practice in teaching the subject-matter in this manner. 



In another address before the st\me department on The Rural High School, 

 U. S. Commissioner of Education Claxton emphasized the importance of ascer- 

 taining the kind of education that the American farmer needs before attempt- 

 ing to outline a course in agriculture for rural high schools. His address dwelt 

 mainly with the education and training of the farmer and his wife. 



