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C. A. Rowe will give a series of lecltu-es on t'orn culture, breeding, and judging. 

 In this connection it is interesting to note that Illinois college was the first 

 institution to erect a building for higher education in Illinois, and that one 

 of its early professors, Jonathan Baldwin Turner, was a leading spirit in secur- 

 ing legislation giving Government aid to laud-grant colleges. 



The Hamilton County High School at Tyner, Tenn., has introduced a course 

 in agriculture and employed V. S. Bright as teacher of this subject. 



S. L. Chesnutt, formerly teacher of agriculture at the Farragut School, 

 Concord, Tenn., is- now teaching agriculture at the Industrial School for White 

 Girls at Montevallo, Ala. His successor at the Farragut School has not yet 

 been chosen, but the agricultural work is being carried on with the aid of Prof. 

 Josiah Main and others from the University of Tennessee. 



The message of Governor Hughes to the State legislature contains a recom- 

 mendation for the establishment of a secondary agricultural school m New York 

 as a complement to the college of agriculture of Cornell University. It is sug- 

 gested that there is a favorable opportunity for the establishment of such a 

 school in connection with Alfred University, which, as previously announced, is 

 now giving courses in agriculture. 



School News for January, 190S, contains a description of the location, pur- 

 pose, method of work, results of work, and future possibilities of the country 

 training school of the Western Illinois State Normal School at Macomb. 



The legislature of Alabama which adjourned recently increased the State 

 appropriation for district agricultural schools from $2,500 to $4,000 annually 

 for each school. 



This year for the first time agriculture is made a part of the regular work 

 of the eleventh grade in the high school at Pilot Point, Tex. The apparatus 

 of the physical laboratory is utilized, supplemented by fruit jars, bottles, and 

 other Inexpensive material which can be used in laboratory exercises and 

 experiments. The superintendent of the school writes that as a result of the 

 introduction of agriculture the course in botany has taken on a more practical 

 trend, and in fact " agriculture has given unity and purpose to the whole 

 science course." The course in nature study is now being reorganized so that 

 it will articulate with agriculture, aud there will be progressive work with 

 nature material all through the grades and in the high school. 



The board of education of Pine Bluff, Ark., has introduced a three-year 

 course in agriculture into the schools of that city. Instruction in agriculture 

 was begun at the Missouri St. High School in September. 



Two hundred students are enrolled at the Guthrie County High School at 

 Panora, Iowa. A large percentage of these come from country schools in all 

 parts of the county. The school employs a special teacher of agriculture and 

 offers an agricultural course which runs parallel to a Latin course and a 

 science course, agricultural subjects taking the place of Latin in the former, and 

 of a part of the formal science work in the latter. The school has a separate 

 building devoted largely to science and agricultural work, and is provided' with 

 some special equipment for agriculture, including a drying oven, soil tubes, and 

 other inexpensive apparatus. A good-sized lecture room is used for class work 

 in agriculture, and a well-lighted basement is utilized for farm machinery prac- 

 ticums, the classes studying gasoline engines, corn harvesters, manure spread- 

 ers, and mowing machines, which are loaned by manufacturers. About 50 boys 

 are taking the agricultural course. 



New Journals. — Ulntria Agrlcole has been established as the semimonthly 

 organ of the agricultural institute, agricultural council, and forest conmiis- 

 sioners of Istria, Italy. The initial number gives special attention to wine 

 making. 



