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Vermont University. — Miss Bertha M. Terrill lias been appointed to the newly 

 established professorship of home eeouoruies. 



Virginia Truck Station. — ^A series of farmers' institutes, emphasizing especially 

 the truck crop work of the station, was held along the Rappahannock River, 

 June 4 and 5, the station cooperating with the State commissioner of agricul- 

 ture. A steamboat had been put at the disposal of the institute officials, and 

 this made S stops of about one and one-half hours each along the way. The 

 attendance varied from 75 to 150 and the meetings seemed to be much appre- 

 ciated. 



Wisconsin University. — The legislature has appropriated $50,000 for the gen- 

 eral extension work of the university for the ensuing year, and $75,000 for the 

 year following. In addition .$30,000 annually was granted for agricultural 

 extension work and $20,000 for farmers' institutes. Principal K. L. Hatch, of 

 the Winnebago County Agricultural High School, has been appointed extension 

 secretarj\ 



H, C. Taylor has been promoted to the professorship of agricultural economics, 

 E. G. Hastings to the associate professorship of bacteriology, and E. R. Jones 

 and C. P. Norgord to the assistant professorships of soils and agronomy 

 respectively. 



Agriculture in Minnesota High Schools. — The legislature of Minnesota has 

 passed an act providing State aid for 10 high schools or consolidated rural 

 schools which maintain agricultural and industrial departments. The State 

 will pay two-thirds of the expense to maintain these departments provided that 

 each school employs trained instructors in agriculture, manual training, and 

 domestic science, possesses not less than 5 acres of land suitable for school 

 gardens and experimental and demonstration purposes, and that the total 

 expenditure for each school does not exceed $2,500. 



The 10 schools selected are the high schools at Albert Lea, Alexandria, Canby, 

 Glencoe, Hinckley, Red Wing, and Wells, the high schools and associated rural 

 schools at Cokato and Mcintosh, and the consolidated school at Lewiston. The 

 act also provides that not to exceed 10 schools may be added to the list during 

 each succeeding biennium. 



Agricultural Instruction in Porto Rico. — An act of the legislative assembly of 

 Porto Rico, approved March 11, IltOO, appropriates .$.3,000 "to assist the Agri- 

 cultural Institute of Arts and Trades at Lajas in its work of affording an 

 education to students of agriculture and other subjects studied in the same," 

 provided the de[)artnienL of education organizes and supervises instruction in 

 the subjects included in the common-school course. This instruction is to be 

 free to students regularly eui'olled in the institute and also to other children 

 residing in the vicinity who may be legally enrolled in the public schools of 

 Porto Rico. Of the appropriation $2,000 is to be expended for improvements 

 in the shops and for agricultural implements, and $1,000 for the maintenance 

 of poor children dwelling in the buildings of the institute. 



Agricultural Division of Oklahoma State Department of Education. — The OJcla- 

 homa Scliool Herald announces that the Oklahoma State Department of Edu- 

 cation has established an agricultural division for the assistance of public 

 school teachers in agriculture, domestic science, and manual training. It plans 

 first to promote the organization of boys' and girls' home culture clubs. 



School of Household Arts, Columbia University. — A new School of Household 

 Arts, Teachers' College, Columbia University, will be opened in September, with 

 40 instructors and 125 courses. These will include diploma and degree courses 

 in preparation for teaching domestic art, domestic science, supervising domestic 

 art and science, and hospital economy; certificate courses in pi'eparation for 

 technical callings — household and institution administration, dietetics, house 



