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instruction in special branches of agriculture, practical instruction in agricul- 

 ture, etc., and. has drawn up a proposed law embodying its recommendations. 



Agricultural Education in Victoria, Australia. — The farmers' classes organized 

 by the department of agriculture in 1902, when they were held in 3 centers, 

 have increased in number until in 190G they were held at 18 centers, with an 

 attendance of 1,320 persons. During the present year arrangements have been 

 made for conducting the classes in 20 centers. 



Attached to the viticultural station, at Rutherglen, is an area of 800 acres 

 which it has been decided to work as a general farm, and at the same time to 

 utilize the buildings originally intended for a college as an educational center for 

 the orphans from the neglected children's department. Twenty-two boys are now 

 being trained in farm and vineyard work, and preparations are complete for 

 receiving 15 more boys. One hundred acres are cultivated, and there are 300 

 sheep and 70 cattle, chiefly dairy cows, on the farm. 



The agricultural high schools which have been recently opened at \Yarrnam- 

 bool and Sale are said to be receiving good support, and active steps are being 

 taken to establish four others. The conditions for the establishment of these 

 schools provide that half the cost of the buildings shall be obtained locally, 

 together with 20 acres of land, and that an attendance of at least 50 pupils shall 

 be guaranteed at a fee of altout $40 a year each. 



Short Courses in Agriculture in the Transvaal. — Vacation courses, comparable 

 to short winter courses in American colleges of agriculture, were held during 

 the 3 weeks following June 24 at the Rhodes University College. The subjects 

 included veterinary science and diseases of stock, breeding of Merinos and 

 Angoras, agricultural chemistry, agricultural geology, farm irrigation and dam 

 construction, law of water and water rights, plant diseases, ostrich raising, 

 insects and insect control, mechanics and meteorology, and farm surveying and 

 leveling. 



Extension of Agricultural Institutions in Spatn. — An act of October 12 pro- 

 vides for the establishment of an experiment field with irrigation equipment 

 on the Santa Teresa Estate, near Seville, for educational and experimental 

 purposes, a laboratory and educational Institution in connection with the agri- 

 cultural school at Madrid, and an experiment field at Motril, in the Province 

 of Granada. The organization and equipment of these institutions has been 

 placed in charge of the state engineer for agriculture of East Andalusia, imder 

 the supervision of the general director of agriculture of the ministry of public 

 works. 



The United States Consul-General at Barcelona reports the promulgation of 

 a recent government order creating traveling schools of agriculture for the 

 remote districts of Spain. The order provides for a course of experimental 

 and practical instruction to be given every year by itinerant lecturers selected 

 from the agricultural engineers of the district schools of agriculture located 

 at Zaragoza, Jaen, Palencia, Badajoz, and Barcelona, and the two stations at 

 Haro and Villafranca del Panades. 



Itinerant Agricultural Instructors in Trinidad. — Instruction in agriculture by 

 means of itinerant lecturers has been carried on in Trinidad since 1902. These 

 instructors visit any plantation upon application of the owner and also give 

 lectures in schools and other public places. During the past year 260 visits 

 were made in 52 different places and 564 lectures were given. One hundred 

 and forty visits were made to schools and 32 lectures were given at the train- 

 ing school. 



Farm and Home Management School for Women. — A recent number of Illtis- 

 trierte LancliDirtschaftliche Zeitung gives an interesting account of a school 

 for women at Maidburg, Germany, which affords training in home economics 



