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process of coustruction. The institute is a secondary school, offering courses 

 rehited to the industries of the region, among which is a 4-year course in 

 agriculture. The officers of the corporation include John D. Losecamp as 

 president and Lewis T. Eaton as educational director. 



New York State School of Agric-ulture. — The New Yorlc State School of Agri- 

 culture at Alfred University has just issued its first annual announcement. 

 A novel feature is the arrangement of its 3-year course of study (G months 

 each year) under three heads, viz, for boys, for boys and girls, and for girls. 

 The work under the first and third headings is almost evenly balanced in time 

 units, and among the technical studies common to groups 1 and 2 are gen- 

 eral agriculture, general and agricultural botany, farm law and accounts, 

 rural sociology, butter, cheese, poultry, plant diseases, general and landscape 

 gardening, and insect pests. Besides English, arithmetic, history, and hygiene, 

 careful attention is also given to physical culture, music, parliamentary prac- 

 tice, and social life. 



Secondary Instruction in Agriculture. — The Genesee Wesleyaii Seminary, at 

 Lima. N. Y., has established departments of agriculture and domestic economy, 

 and is offering courses in these subjects for the first time. This institution is 

 one of tlie oldest college preparatory schools in w^estern New Yorli, having been 

 established in 1820 and oi»ened in ^Nlay, 1832. During all of this time it has 

 confined its work almost entirely to classical and Latin-scientific courses, but 

 more recently it has established an engineering preparatory course, a course in 

 connnerce, and a seminary course, and now it purposes developing courses of 

 instruction more closely related to the lives and interests of the people in its 

 vicinity. 



The agricultural equipment includes SO acres of land, about 00 of which 

 will be available for gardening, fruit growing and general agriculture, a small 

 herd of dairy cows, work horses, and poultry. F. E. Robertson, a 1909 graduate 

 of Cornell University, has been appointed professor of agriculture, and has been 

 spending the summer repairing the farm buildings. Poultry houses are to be 

 erected and up-to-date farm machinery and implements installed. 



An agricultural high school has been provided for at Sparks Station (P. O. 

 Philopolis), Baltimore Co., Md., with B. H. Crocheron, a graduate of Cornell 

 Umversity, as principal and teacher of agriculture. A new building is being 

 erected and will soon be ready for occupancy. Mr, Crocheron will also super- 

 vise instruction in agriculture in the public schools of Baltimore County. 



Under a recent act of the Maine legislature, which pi'ovides that any in- 

 corporated academy in the State maintaining a course in manual training, 

 domestic science, or agriculture, approved by the state superintendent of 

 schools, shall be entitled to receive annually from the State a sum equal to the 

 amount expended for such instruction up to $250 for each course, an agri- 

 cultural high school course has been adopted in Leavitt Institute at Turner 

 Center, Me. The course extends through four years and includes the ordinary 

 academic subjects in addition to a full line of agricultural instruction of 

 secondary grade. A rather unusual feature of the course as reported is the 

 application of chemistry " to agriculture, the study of soils, jilant life, and 

 fertilizers" in the first year. 



In addition to the 2 district agricultural schools already established at 

 Tishomingo and Warner, the Oklahoma legislature has authorized the estab- 

 lishment of similar schools, to be located during the year 1909, in the third, 

 fourth, and fifth supreme court judicial districts. Sixty thousand dollars Is 

 appropriated for the erection of buildings in these .3 districts, with $12,000 

 each for their maintenance in 1910, and $17,000 each for the year ending 

 June 30, 1911. A later act approved March 11, 1909, divides the fifth district 



