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Agriculture in Alfred University. — Courses iu general agriculture, horticulture, 

 advanced agronomy, and economic entomology were offered in Alfred Univer- 

 sity. Alfred. N. Y., during 1900-7, and it is announced that additional courses 

 will be given as needed in the future. 



An Agricultural School in Bolivia. — A recent bulletin of the department of 

 coloniza':iun and agriculture of Bolivia announces that the legislature has appro- 

 priated $S,2(K) for the establishment of an agricultural school at Cochabamba. 

 The exact location for this school is now under consideration. It is the inten- 

 tion to develop this institution into a national institute of agriculture, with 

 other institutions to be established in the country, as follows : A practical school 

 of agriculture and animal husbandry at Tarija, a viticultural and enological sta- 

 tion or school at Ciuti, a special school of tropical agriculture at Santa Cruz, an 

 office or station of zootechny and veterinary medicine at Trinidad, and a special 

 high-altitude agricultural school for La Plaz, Oruro, and Potosi. 



Agricultural Education in Scotland. — At the annual conference of the Scottish 

 Chamber of Commerce in Glasgow, October 2?>, resolutions were adopted favoring 

 the inclusion of agriculture in the curriculum of the day schools, and instructing 

 the directors to take the necessary steps for bringing this about. The Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries was requested to consider the appointment of a 

 departmental commission to inquire into the present condition of agricultural 

 education and research in Scotland, the commission to correspond in scope to 

 that now in progress in England. 



Agricultural Education in Austria. — According to a note in a recent number 

 of Wioier LuiKhrlriscliaftJiclir Zcituiig, there were in 1000-7 105 institutions 

 in Austria giving instruction in agriculture and forestry. 



These include institutions established within the year, namely, the agri- 

 cultural division of the Royal Imperial Technical High School at Prague, the 

 Royal Imperial Agricultural Educational and Experimental Institute at Spalato, 

 the farm school at Mikozin. agricultural winter schools at Judenburg and 

 Friesach, and the domestic science school at Chrudim. 



The schools making up the total include the following: Thi'ee high schools, 

 3 higher agricultural institutes or academies, agricultural secondary schools, 

 5 higher forestry institutes, 2 higher institutes for viticulture, pomology, and 

 horticulture, 1 higher institute for the brewing Industry, 43 lower agricultural 

 schools, 75 agricultural winter schools, 10 lower forestry schools, 17 dairy and 

 domestic science schools, 23 lower special schools for gardening, pomology, viti- 

 culture, and hop, alpine, and bee culture, 2 brewing schools, and 2 di.stillery 

 schools. 



The Growth of People's High Schools and Agronomic Schools in Denmark. — 

 According to figures I'ecently published by the Danish bureau of statistics, the 

 number of people's high schools in that country has increased from 3 in 1844 to 

 71 in 1900, while the attendance in these institutions has grown from 30 to 0,282. 

 Of agronomic schools, there were 5 in 1844, while now there are 14 and the at- 

 tendance has increased from 42 to l,12f). 



Elementary Agriculture and Forestry in Belgium.^ — The communal council of 

 Schaerbeck has decided to give instruction in the elements of horticulture and 

 forestry in one of the parks of Brussels to pupils from the primary schools. 



During the winter of 1007-8 short courses in elementary agriculture will be 

 held iu 340 communes of the Kingdom, each course to be accessible to not more 

 than 20 pupils. 



Proposed Scheme of Agricultural Education in the Argentine Republic. — An 

 advisory commission has reported to the minister of agriculture of the Argentine 

 Republic a scheme for a system of agricultural education in that country, in- 

 cluding different grades of theoretical instruction in agriculture, schools for 



