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in the university of $300 a year for four years. The recipients must be from 

 farms in a county traversed by the Southern Railway system, must be in 

 need of financial assistance, and must agree to practice or teach agriculture 

 for two years after graduation in territory contiguous to some line of the 

 system. 



At the suggestion of the station authorities the railroads have this summer 

 been operating excursions fi-om the various counties of east Tennessee to the 

 station to give farmers an opiJortunity to become familiar with its work. 

 These excursions have proved very successful. 



Oscar Campbell has been appointed plat assistant at the West Tennessee 

 substation, and G. L. Ilerrington has been appointed horticultural assistant. 



Utah College. — L. A. Merrill, director of the exten.sion division, has resigned 

 to engage in commercial practice as an agricuUui-al expert. The oQices of the 

 extension division were transferred from Salt Lake City to Logan September 1. 



Virginia Truck Station.— P. T. Cole, assistant horticulturist, has resigned to 

 become assistant agricultural commissioner to the St. Louis Southwestern Rail- 

 way Company, with headquarters in St. Louis. 



Agriculture at Syracuse University. — Announcement is made by the division 

 of agriculture, established about a year ago in response to the demand " under 

 which every progressive university is put to offer the opportunity for instnic- 

 tion in agriculture as part of a liberal and technical education," of courses in 

 general agriculture, animal husbandry, dairying, horticulture, agiicultural 

 engineering, and a special course for teachers. F. W. Howe, formerly of this 

 Office, is director of the division. 



General Agricultural Committees of Bankers' Associations. — Over 200 dele- 

 gates, representing the agricultural committees of the bankers' associations of 

 22 States, met at Minneapolis and St. Paul August 7 and S for a discussion of 

 agricultural education and improvement. Among the speakers were Thomas P. 

 Coopex', secretary of the North Dakota Farming Association. President A. M. 

 Soule, of the Georgia College; J. J. Hill; A. V. Storm, of the University of 

 Minnesota ; and S. M, Jordan, manager of the Pettis County Bui'eau of Agri- 

 culture, of Setlalia, Mo., all of whom discussed various phases of extension 

 work. 



A silver trophy offered to the State committee making the largest contribu- 

 tion to agricultural education and improvement was awarded to that of North 

 Dakota, where the committee reported financing the better farming association 

 to the extent of $45,000, also contributing $5,000 for farmers' institutes in the 

 absence of a State appropriation, and $5,000 for holding local corn-growing. con- 

 tests, in which over 11,000 men and boys participated. Joseph Chapman, jr., 

 and Charles R. Forst, both of Minneapolis, were reelected president and secre- 

 tary, respectively, for the ensuing year. 



Illinois Country Life Conference. — A state conference on country life was 

 held at De Kalb, 111., August 1 and 2, which called together representatives of 

 every type of rural organization and discussed all phases of country life. A 

 most unique and helpful feature of this conference was a country life exhibt, 

 to which many local and national organizations contributed. The conference 

 was the second annual meeting of the Illinois Federation for Country Life 

 Progress, a State-wide organization designed to unite all rural progi'ess agen- 

 cies of Illinois in one large, comprehensive campaign for the improvement of 

 country life. 



Second International Congress of Entomology. — This congress was held at 

 Oxford August 5 to 9 under the presidency of Prof. E. B. Poulton and with 

 representatives of about 20 countries in attendance. 



